Had a great time earlier this week on a Google Hangout as part of the IBM Opinionated Infrastructure series. Moderator James Governor (analyst from RedMonk) kept the conversation lively, with topics ranging from to the value of information to the benefits of predictive analytics and evolution of Hadoop. R gets a mention at several points in the conversation, which...

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Here are three recent news articles that feature interviews with members of the Revolution Analytics team talking about the importance of the R language: In Forbes, CEO Dave Rich talks to Gil Press about the business landscape for Big Data. In the article, Dave says: SAS and SPSS remind me of Cobol and Fortran circa 1995. The scientific and...

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We love to work with latest big data technologies. Currently, our favorite open-source tools are the NoSQL database mongoDB, the Hadoop framework for distributed computing and data storage, and the statistical software R. It is fascinating to be part of these very active communities. Here is a list of my favorite community links: mongoDB Blog

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In case you missed them, here are some articles from January of particular interest to R users. Anthony Damico created an amusing and useful flowchart for finding resources for learning R, especially for survey analysis. All R users: please be counted for the 2013 Rexer Data Miner Survey (R was the #1 software reported in the last survey). Relatedly,...

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I owe a big “thank you” to all of you who attended my webinar yesterday “Using R with Hadoop”. Revolution Analytics partnered with us at Think Big Analytics to produce the webinar, and I owe them thanks as well. For those of you who missed it, the slides and replay are now available from Revolution

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If you weren't one of the almost 2000 people who signed up for yesterday's webinar "Using R with Hadoop", the replay and slides are now available. During the webinar, Jeffrey Breen (Principal at Think Big Academy) talked about extracting analytics from data in Hadoop and covered: How to use R and Hadoop Hadoop streaming Various R packages and RHadoop...

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The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full January edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. Top Innovator, Big Data Technologies. Revolution Analytics is the proud recipient of the Top...

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In case you missed them, here are some articles from December of particular interest to R users. The blog is.R ran an excellent series of R tips and applications in December, with posts including working with Stata files, working with graphs and networks, and text analysis. Kohske Takahashi provides R scripts to create a collection of optical illusions. Highlights...

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In two weeks (on January 24), Think Big Analytics' Jeffrey Breen will present a new webinar on using R with Hadoop. Here's the webinar description: R and Hadoop are changing the way organizations manage and utilize big data. Think Big Analytics and Revolution Analytics are helping clients plan, build, test and implement innovative solutions based on the two technologies...

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Many of my software engineer friends ask me about learning data science. There are many articles on this subject from renowned data scientists (Dataspora, Gigaom, Quora, Hilary Mason). This post captures my journey (a software engin...

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