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Norman Nie on two big problems with Big Data

December 23, 2011 | David Smith

Revolution Analytics CEO Norman Nie sat down with Cassimir Medford from Business Agility to talk about the problems business today face with respect to Big Data. The two big problems identified: finding adequately trained personnel and locating the right tools. Norman traces the problem of finding skilled practitioners to work ... [Read more...]

EMC survey differentiates BI and Data Science

December 15, 2011 | David Smith

EMC last week published the results of a survey of 462 IT decision makers who self-identified as either a data scientist or business intelligence professional (plus 35 invitees who were attendees at the EMC Data Scientist Summity and/or Kaggle competitors). There's a nice summary of the conclusions at the EMC blog, (... [Read more...]

Revolution Newsletter: December 2011

December 14, 2011 | David Smith

The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full December edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. Applications of R in Business ... [Read more...]

RHadoop update: new tools for Hadoop map-reduce tasks in R

December 13, 2011 | David Smith

The open-source RHadoop project to integrate R and Hadoop continues apace, with a new version of the rmr package released this week. Changes in this version improve performance when storing and retrieving R objects from Hadoop with a native serialization process, support for equijoins (a MapReduce-style merge) and some new ... [Read more...]

Forbes: Big Data needs to earn its keep

December 8, 2011 | David Smith

Dan Woods at Forbes makes a salient point about Big Data: it's not good enough merely to spend a ton of money to collect and store data -- it needs to earn its keep via data analysis: Let’s say you buy a huge Hadoop cluster along with Revolution Analytics, ... [Read more...]

New CRAN mirror from Revolution Analytics

December 7, 2011 | David Smith

There's a new CRAN mirror available: cran.revolutionanalytics.com. It's provided by Revolution Analytics and hosted at Rackspace's high-availability data center in Dallas, TX. Especially for R users located in the western US, using this mirror will provide high-bandwidth access to open-source R downloads and CRAN packages while taking the ... [Read more...]

Judging panel for Applications of R in Business contest

December 6, 2011 | David Smith

Now that the final submissions are in for the Applications of R in Business contest, it's time to announce the judging panel who will select the winners for $20,000 in cash prizes from Revolution Analytics. They are: Edd Dumbill, technologist and writer for O'Reilly Media David Menninger, VP & Research Director at ... [Read more...]

Applications of R in Business Contest: Final Entries

December 2, 2011 | David Smith

The revision period for the Applications of R in Business Contest is now at a close, and the competitors have finalized their entries for a chance at $20,000 in prizes from Revolution Analytics. We're now in the judging phase, where the finalists will be rated on applicability to business, innovation and ... [Read more...]

Interviews on Revolution R Enterprise 5.0

December 1, 2011 | David Smith

For those looking for more background behind the updates in Revolution R Enterprise 5.0, there are now a couple of interviews online where I talk about the new release. At IT Business Edge ("Revolution Analytics' Goal: Make R Analysis Enterprise-Friendly"), I had a chat with Loraine Lawson about how Revolution R ... [Read more...]

DecisionStats review of Revolution R Enterprise 5.0

November 23, 2011 | David Smith

At the DecisionStats blog, Ajay Ohri has published his review of Revolution R Enterprise 5.0. The review includes a slideshow highlighting some of the features of the new release, including the expanded code snippets manager and the new cluster job manager. It's well worth checking out if you'd like a quick ... [Read more...]

Analyzing birth rates from census data from RevoScaleR

November 18, 2011 | David Smith

In yesterday's webinar, "New Features in Revolution R Enterprise 5.0 to Support Scalable Data Analysis", Sue Ranney demonstrated the features of the RevoScaleR big data analysis package included with Revolution R Enterprise. In the webinar, she showed how to use the rxImport function to import big data sets from SAS, SPSS ... [Read more...]

Revolution Newsletter: November 2011

November 17, 2011 | David Smith

The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you read the full November edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. R Training from Hadley Wickham: The ... [Read more...]

Webinar Tomorrow: What’s new in Revolution R Enterprise 5.0

November 16, 2011 | David Smith

A reminder that Sue Ranney will be presenting the webinar New Features in Revolution R Enterprise 5.0 (Including RevoScaleR) to support Scalable Data Analysis tomorrow (Thursday) at 11AM Pacific time. To whet your appetite, here's another video demonstation of more of the new big data analysis features, including the rxDataStep function ... [Read more...]

Announcing Revolution R Enterprise 5.0

November 15, 2011 | David Smith

We're proud to announce the latest update to the enhanced, commercial-grade distribution of R, Revolution R Enterprise 5.0. With each new release, Revolution R Enterprise adds more capabilities to open-source R, to make R users more productive, to improve performance of R programs, to support Big Data analytics, and to provide ... [Read more...]

R Development Master Class with Hadley Wickham

November 14, 2011 | David Smith

Hadley Wickham, R guru and author of several popular R packages (ggplot2 and plyr, to name just two), will present his 2-day R Development Master Class in New York City, December 12-13. This two-day course offers expert instruction in R programming and package development, and is ideal for anyone looking ... [Read more...]
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