Erik Sigur, Information Technologist for the Department of Statistics and Probability at Michigan State University, writes at ReadWriteWeb about using Revolution R Enterprise to provide high-performance computation in R to the researchers in his department: Our search for a more effective version of R ultimately brought us to a product called Revolution R Enterprise...
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Forbes: Top 20 influencers in Big Data
Haydn Shaughnessy at The Forbes blog provides a list of the "Top 20 Influencers in Big Data", and I'm humbled to report that yours truly is listed there at #2. It's an instantaneous ranking based on the social-media tracking tool Traakr, but it's still great to be listed alongside writers for SiliconAngle, GigaOM, and...
Announcing the winners of the Applications of R in Business contest
It's with great pleasure that the team at Revolution Analytics announces the winners of the inaugural "Applications of R in Business" contest: Grand Prize ($10,000): Shannon Terry and Ben Ogorek, Nationwide Insurance for 'A Direct Marketing In-flight Forecasting System' Runner Up Prize ($5,000): Jeffrey Breen, Atmosphere Research Group for 'Mining Twitter for Airline Consumer...
BBBT Podcast with David Smith
Last Friday I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to travel to Boulder, CO and present R and Revolution Analytics to about 20 analysts as part of the Boulder BI Brain Trust (BBBT). It was a great pleasure to describe the vision for Revolution R Enterprise and got some great feedback from the...
Revolution Newsletter: January 2012
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. Reflections on 2011. Last year was a big one...
Revolution Analytics: 2011 in Review, by Norman Nie
In this open letter to our customers, Revolution Analytics CEO Norman Nie reflects on the accomplishments of the past year. Dear Revolution Analytics Client, I wanted to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy and healthy 2012 and thank you for your support in 2011. Through the efforts of the R Community,...
Revolution Analytics 2012 R User Group Sponsorship Program
On of Revolution Analytics' main missions is to support and foster the growth of the R community, and in 2011 we sponsored more than 25 local R user groups and meetings with cash donations for for venue hire, meetup.com dues, refreshments, and other group needs. We also sent hundreds of "I love R" T-shirts...
Good at applying R? Be a Sales Engineer!
Revolution Analytics is hiring! We're looking for a Sales Engineer -- someone who can show Revolution R to potential customers and really show off what R can do in an applied setting. (Fun fact: this was my first job when I left university, and it's a lot of fun.) The job description is below,...
Revolution Analytics named Startup to Watch in 2012
While we were out over the holiday break, Silicon Angle selected five open-source startups that are commercializing and contributing to open source projects as "Startups to Watch in 2012". Revolution Analytics was #2 on the list: This was a busy year for Revolution. The company released Revolution R 5.0, which included Hadoop integration, allowing...
Coefplot: New Package for Plotting Model Coefficients
By Joseph Rickert Even to the practiced eye, looking at coefficients in R model summaries can be tedious. And, capturing information about the significance of coefficients from scores or maybe even hundreds of models in a way that makes writing the final report a bit easier is a time consuming and thankless task. Of...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).