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February 3, 2012

Because it's Friday: Star Wars, remixed

This is just amazing: a shot-for-shot recreation of the original Star Wars movie (well actually, the 1997 Special Edition), made by fans.

 

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February 3, 2012

Rstudio updates to v0.95

RStudio, an open-source IDE for R, recently released an update to the beta, v0.95. Now included: support for multiple projects, integration with Git and subversion, and improved code navigation. 

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February 3, 2012

Accelerating analytics at MSU with Revolution R Enterprise

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:

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February 3, 2012

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 KDNuggets (and even Mashable!).

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David Smith
February 3, 2012

New R User Groups in Austin, Adelaide

It's awesome to see so many local R user groups kicking off in 2011! Yet another is the Austin R User Group in Austin, Texas. They've already held their first informal get-together, and the first formal meeting on February 23 will be devoted to data management techniques in R. Props to Sandy Donlon for organizing the group!

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David Smith
February 2, 2012

Introducing Dave Rich, Revolution Analytics' new CEO

It's with great pleasure that we welcome Dave Rich as Revolution Analytics' new CEO today. Dave comes to us from Accenture Analytics, where he was Global Managing Director.

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David Smith
February 2, 2012

R Chart featured in Facebook IPO

Page 7 of Facebook's 213-page S-1 filing for their record-breaking IPO includes the following chart, under the headline: "Our Mission: To make the world more open and connected".

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David Smith
February 1, 2012

Analytic applications are built by data scientists

Ventana Research analyst David Menninger was on the judging panel for the Applications of R in Business contest. In a post on the Ventana research blog, he offers his perspectives on the contest, noting that

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David Smith
January 31, 2012

New R User Group in Cambridge, UK

Yet another new local R user group has launched this month, this time in Cambridge, UK. Cambridge RUG was created by data analyst Andrew Caines to promote the use of R in the Cambridge area. 

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David Smith
January 30, 2012

Pre-conference tutorials announced for useR! 2012

The worldwide R user conference, useR! 2012, will take place this year June 12-15 in Nashville, Tennessee. In addition to the regular program of invited and contributed talks, a highlight of every useR! is the pre-conference tutorials: hand-on, half-day in-depth expert-led sessions with a focused on a specific area of methodology with R.