If you haven't done so already, it's not too late to register for tomorrow's 1-hour webinar, Supercharge BI and Dashboards with Predictive Analytics. I'll be one of the presenters, talking about R and its applications for business intelligence. The topics and speakers will be: Introduction: Analytics and BI (Steve Miller, ... [Read more...]

The program of invited lectures, contributed talks and posters for this year's annual R user conference useR! 2010 is now available, and it looks to be another excellent event. (Revolution Analytics is a sponsor of useR! 2010.) Of note this year is an increasing focus on commercial applications of R, with no ... [Read more...]

On Wednesday next week, Revolution will be hosting a joint webinar with open-source Business Intelligence software maker Jaspersoft and open-source Business Intelligence services company OpenBI. Together, we'll be talking about making BI dashboards even more powerful by integrating custom visualizations and advanced predictive models from R. If you create advanced ... [Read more...]

A quick reminder that I'll be hosting a free webinar tomorrow. Mainly intended for those new to R and Revolution, An Introduction to Revolution R will give an overview and history of the R Project and the additional features of the Revolution R products. But even if you've used R ... [Read more...]

There's another new R User Group, this time in Boston: the New England R User Group. Their first meeting will be on Tuesday, May 25. Get all the info by joining the Google Group at the link below. Google Groups: New England R User Group [Read more...]

I'll be giving a live webinar on Thursday next week (May 20) titled Introduction to Revolution R. If you're new to the R world and wondering what you can do with R, this webinar is for you. I'll also be introducing some of the functionality unique to Revolution R included in ... [Read more...]

JD Long (of Cerebral Mastication fame) will be giving a live "virtual talk" introducing R: "What it's best at and how you can use it to help you massage data". The talk will be at 7:30PM Pacific time tomorrow, Tuesday May 4. You can register at the link below. vconf.org: ... [Read more...]

There's a new local R User Group in San Diego (CA, USA), and they're meeting tonight. If you're in the area, why not RSVP and come along? The topic looks great: Our speaker, Scott Wallihan, will be covering how to expand R's functionality through custom packages. This topic will be ... [Read more...]

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On April 14 I'll be giving a new webinar in partnership with Microsoft on High-Performance Computing with R. I'll be focusing on the new parallel programming capabilities of REvolution R Enterprise 3.1 for Windows, and how to use the features of Microsoft HPC Server to enable computing on clusters. Here's the complete ... [Read more...]

Following last year's successful unconference on data mining, the Bay Area Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will again host the 2010 ACM Data Mining Camp on March 20 in San Jose, CA. The event is free and runs from 11:15am - 7:30pm, with an optional 2-hour pre-camp training in the morning. (REvolution ... [Read more...]

Don't forget, if you're planning to attend the R user conference useR! 2010 and are going to present a talk (and if not, why not?), abstracts are due for submission this coming Monday, March 1. That's also the deadline for early-bird registrations, so if you haven't registered yet, now is the time. ... [Read more...]

Thanks to everyone who attended for the great turnout at this morning's live webinar, 7 Ways to Increase your R Productivity. I really appreciate all the feedback and questions, seems like a lot of people are interested in a code editing and debugging environment for R. If you missed the webinar ... [Read more...]

We've just upgraded REvolution R Enterprise to version 3.1 and expanded the available platforms to include 64-bit Windows. (REvolution R Enterprise is our subscription-based distribution of R.) This means that you can now create R programs on Windows that use all of your available memory, instead of being constrained by the 3... [Read more...]

At tomorrow's meeting of the Bay Area R User's Group, ACM Software Systems award winner and R Core Group member John Chambers will give a keynote talk on the R language. The talk, titled Interfaces and Paradigms, will explore choices for computing with data with visits along the way to ... [Read more...]

Registrations are now open for the R/Finance 2010 conference, to be help April 16-17 in Chicago. Last year's meeting was a great success, and this year's looks to be just as good, with some great keynotes lined up: Analysis of Integrated and Co-integrated Time Series with R (Bernhard Pfaff) Leverage ... [Read more...]

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Just a quick reminder that I'll be hosting an introductory webinar about R today, The R Project: Data Analysis and Statistical Graphics for the Enterprise. It's at 9AM Pacific, so you might still have time to register for the live session at the link below. Otherwise, if you did catch ... [Read more...]

There's a new local R User Group starting up in Philadelphia. Alex McClung and Jeremy Leipzig have set up a website for the Philly UseR Group to get things started, so if you're in the area join up and tell them what you'd like from the group. Also, the DC ... [Read more...]

Preparations are well underway for the annual R user conference useR! 2010, to be held at NIST (about 25 miles outside of Washington, DC) July 20-23. This meeting is a true user conference: almost all of the presentations at the conference are contributed by ordinary R users. So, to continue the success ... [Read more...]