MapReduce is a powerful programming framework for efficiently processing very large amounts of data stored in the Hadoop distributed filesystem. But while several programming frameworks for Hadoop exist, few are tuned to the needs of data analysts who typically work in the R environment as opposed to general-purpose languages like Java. That's why the dev team at Revolution Analytics...
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Revolution Newsletter: September 2011
The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you read the full September edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. Using Revolution R with Hadoop: Revolution Analytics has released three open-source R packages, making it...
Webinar: Leveraging R in Hadoop Environments
On Wednesday September 21, Revolution Analytics' CTO David Champagne will give a live webinar introducing three new open-source packages for R and Hadoop, which make it possible to work with Hadoop data in R, and bring in-database R analytics to Hadoop. Here are the details: Date: Wednesday, September 21st Time: 10:00AM - 10:30AM Pacific Time Presenter: David Champagne, Chief...
How to access 100M time series in R in under 60 seconds
DataMarket, a portal that provides access to more than 14,000 data sets from various public and private sector organizations, has more than 100 million time series available for download and analysis. (Check out this presentation for more info about DataMarket.) And now with the new package rdatamarket, it's trivially easy to import those time series into R for charting,...
GDAT 2011 in Review
As usual, the Guerrilla Data Analysis Techniques (GDAT) class was a total blast. Motivated students always guarantee that. It would really help our scheduling, however, if people didn't wait until the last nanosecond to register for the class. But give...
Revolution Newsletter: August 2011
The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you read the full August edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. Free 30-minute introduction to Revolution R Enterprise. On Wednesday August 24, author and blogger David...
High-Performance in Cloud Computing
Very often scientists are worried about performance and security in cloud computing. Especially, when talking about High-Performance Computing (HPC) in the cloud it is a very important aspect to proof efficient calculation speed in the cloud. Cloud computing describes a new delivery model for IT services based on Internet protocols, and it typically involves provisioning
Multiple cores in R, revisited
The bigmemory package in combination with doMC provides at least a partial solution for sharing a large data set across multiple cores in R. With this solution you can work on the same matrix using several threads. It is also a very scalable solution. ...
Upcoming R training classes, live from the experts
Revolution Analytics is hosting several hands-on R training classes over the next few months, with in-person instruction from two leading package authors and experts from the R community. Diethelm Würtz from ETH Zurich will give a two-day master class on Portfolio Selection and Optimization in Practice. Prof Würtz leads the Rmetrics project, and will provide in-depth instruction on using...
Word Cloud in R
A word cloud (or tag cloud) can be an handy tool when you need to highlight the most commonly cited words in a text using a quick visualization. Of course, you can use one of the several on-line services, such as wordle or tagxedo ,...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
