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...]

Jared Lander on Twitter asks: When I alt-tab into [Revolution] R Enterprise how do I make the #rstats [R] console the active window by default. Now it goes to solution explorer. Revolution's crack Support engineer Stephen Weller offers this solution: The best way to do this is to right-click on ... [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...]

It was quite the media frenzy for Revolution and R last week. In conjunction with our relaunch as Revolution Analytics, we spoke to more than a dozen journalists and analysts to explain why we think R is at the center of a perfect storm for predictive analytics: with routine collection ... [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...]

As part of all the news from yesterday, we also announced our vision and roadmap for the Revolution R product line for 2010. You can see a short summary of our vision in this two-minute video, or see more details in the roadmap whitepaper available for download. But here's a quick ... [Read more...]

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Unlike Revolution R Community which is 100% free to everyone, our commercial-grade Revolution R Enterprise distribution bundles R with proprietary components from our development team, which are normally available only to paying subscribers. (Those subscriptions are the way we get income to keep the company going.) Those components include our full ... [Read more...]

So, as you may have noticed from the new banner here at the blog, we've changed our name to Revolution Analytics. It's still the same company and the same people, and still focused around the R Project, but now with a fresh new look and lots of exciting news. I'll ... [Read more...]

Steve Miller has posted his interview with Revolution's CEO Norman Nie at Information Management blogs. In the interview, Steve digs into Norman's motivations for taking on a new venture around R after his successes with SPSS and how what he learned there applies to Revolution Computing. Also up for discussion: ... [Read more...]

REvolution R Community, REvolution's free distribution based on R from the R Project, has been updated to version 3.2 and is now available for download for Windows and MacOS. Some features of this release include: Upgraded R engine. This release is based on R 2.10.1, the latest release (as of this writing). ... [Read more...]

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...]

I'm at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco today and tomorrow; I'll report in with updates after the talks. I'm particularly looking forward to the panel discussion on The Shifting Open Source Opportunity moderated by Ashlee Vance, the New York Times reporter who wrote the major story on ... [Read more...]

This article by REvolution Computing CEO Norman Nie is crossposted from the Future of Open Source Forum. The R Project: despite there being over 2 million users of this open-source language for statistical data analysis, you might not have heard of it ... yet. You might have seen this feature in the ... [Read more...]

InformationWeek published today a profile of Zack Urlocker, the former MySQL executive who recently joined REvolution's board: Former MySQL staffer Zack Urlocker is going to try to do for predictive analytics what he once did for relational database systems: bring open source code to a user population that hasn't necessarily ... [Read more...]

Analyst David Stodder at Intelligent Enterprise also noted the activity around R at the recent Predictive Analytics World conference in San Francisco, and he reviews his impressions in a column today. In fact, he attributes the increasing prominence of predictive analytics to R: Possibly the most important factor influencing the ... [Read more...]

As you might have heard from this morning's press release, we've just welcomed a new member to REvolution's board of directors: Zack Urlocker. Zack has an impeccable open-source pedigree: until recently, he was responsible for engineering and marketing at MySQL, the wildly successful open-source database company recently acquired by Oracle (... [Read more...]

We're looking for a programmer with experience in high-performance computing and the R system to work on the ParallelR suite and other data-analysis projects. Sound like anyone you know? Check out the details at the link below. REvolution Computing careers: Parallel Computing Developer [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...]