Revolution R Enterprise 5.0 will be released soon, and Sue Ranney, VP of Development at Revolution Analytics, will host a webinar on Thursday November 17 to get you up to speed on the latest features: Revolution R Enterprise 5.0 is Revolution Analytics’ scalable analytics platform. At its core is Revolution Analytics’ enhanced Distribution ... [Read more...]

Rose Hoffmann, AP Statistics teacher at Catholic Memorial High School in Waukesha, WI sent the following note to the Revolution Analytics team: In August 2010, my husband who is a statistician attended the American Statistical convention. Your company gave out the flying monkey with a black cape ... He gave me the ... [Read more...]

(Hadley Wickham, author of ggplot2 and several other R packages, guest blogs today about forthcoming big-data improvements to his R graphics package -- ed.) Hi! I'm Hadley Wickham and I'm guest posting on the Revolutions blog to give you a taste of some of the visualisation work that my research ... [Read more...]

If you haven't yet taken a look at Revolution R Enterprise but wanted to know what is adds to open-source R, the slides below from yesterday's webinar will give you a quick overview: A recorded replay with audio of the me giving the presentation is also available at the link ... [Read more...]

The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full October 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 Contest: Deadline ... [Read more...]

If you missed last week's webinar on using Revolution R and IBM Netezza to analyze the effectiveness of new rules intended to prevent another financial "Flash Crash", you can watch a replay by filling in this form. Once the replay begins, you can download the slides by clicking the "Download" ... [Read more...]

Revolution Analytics today announced that it has partnered with Cloudera, the leader in Apache Hadoop-based software and services, to make big-data analytics with Hadoop and R available to Revolution R Enterprise users. As we announced earlier this month, we have created three open-source R packages which make it possible for ... [Read more...]

At 2:42PM on March 10 2010, without warning, the Dow Jones Industrial Index plunged more than 1000 points in just 5 minutes. It remains the biggest one-day decline in this stock market index in history. On an intra-day basis, anyway: by the end of the day, the market had regained 600 points of the drop. ... [Read more...]

So ... there's clearly a lot of interest in integrating R and Hadoop. Today's webinar was a record-setter for Revolution Analytics, with more than 1000 people signing up to learn how to access Hadoop data from R with the packages from the open-source RHadoop project. If you didn't catch the live webinar, ... [Read more...]

The next major release of R has been announced: R 2.14.0 is scheduled for October 31. Details are still coming in about the new features planned for this release, but R core member Luke Tierney has revealed some of the performance improvements expected, and R core member Brian Ripley has spoken of ... [Read more...]

We've lined up what we think is an amazing series of R-related webinars over the next couple of months. These free 30-60 minute webinars will cover a wide range of topics: big-data analysis in R with the RevoScaleR package, Hadoop and Netezza; introductions to R for SAS users and for ... [Read more...]

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 ... [Read more...]

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 ... [Read more...]

In case you missed them, here are some articles from August of particular interest to R users. A contest to showcase applications of R for businesses is offering $20,000 in prizes from Revolution Analytics. Three new open-source packages integrating R and Hadoop will be introduced by Revolution Analytics' CTO David Champagne ... [Read more...]

At last month's useR! 2011 conference at Warwick University, there were two talks on the RevoScaleR package for big data statistics in R. The first was a keynote presentation from Revolution Analytics' Chief Scientist, Lee Edlefsen. Here is the overview of his talk, Scalable Data Analysis in R: For the past ... [Read more...]

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 ... [Read more...]

By showing off what R can do for businesses, you could share in $20,000 in prizes from Revolution Analytics. R is already used in many companies around the world, but many people who could benefit from using R still don't know what it is or how it could help them. That's ... [Read more...]

There's been an growing discussion over the past couple of years on the topic of Big Data: how to deal with the situation when you have more data than can be conveniently managed and analyzed by traditional software tools. But Big Data has little intrinsic value in its own right: ... [Read more...]

If you missed this week's webinar, the slides from my presentation Revolution R Enteprise: 100% R and More may be useful as an introduction to R and the additional capabilities of Revolution R Enterprise. The slides themselves and the replay video are also available for download from the link below. Revolution ... [Read more...]

A heads-up that I'll be giving a free webinar this Wednesday, August 24. In 30 minutes, I'll give an overview of the open-source R project and the additional features of Revolution R Enterprise: R users already know why the R language is the lingua franca of statisticians today: because it's the most ... [Read more...]