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February 23, 2011

What's the best platform for a high score on Canabalt?

The Web-based Flash game Canabalt, whose scores have been analyzed by R before, is now available as an iOS App. Because the app is configured to work on three different platforms: the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch; and because players are invited to tweet their best scores at the end of the game, like this:

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February 22, 2011

Course: Machine Learning with R

Starting on March 5 at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View (CA), Mike Bowles and Patricia Hoffmann will present a course on Machine Learning where R will be the "lingua franca" for looking at homework problems, discussing them and comparing different solution approaches. The class will begin at the level of elementary probability and statistics and from that background survey a broad array of machine learning

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David Smith
February 21, 2011

Who did HBGary contact the most?

Following on from Friday's post about the travails of internet security firm HBGary, R user Michael Bommarito has done an analysis of the leaked emails to find the top 20 most contacted email addresses and the top 20 most referenced internet domains. There are some interesting names on those lists, to be sure.

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David Smith
February 21, 2011

New R User Groups in Canada, India

Three new local R user groups have just been added to the directory:

In Québec, the group Plein-R is affilliated with the department of Forestry, Geography and Geomatics at Laval University. Although the group's website is in French, group organizer Etienne Racine says, "Our group is bilingual. Our meetings are in a mix of French and English: we call it 'Frenglish'."

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David Smith
February 18, 2011

Because it's Friday: The darker side of internet security

At the RSA Conference this week here in San Francisco, Internet security firm HBGary was scheduled to be present. But this is what greeted vistors to the booth:

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February 18, 2011

Some R Package Updates

Packages for R are being added and updated so frequently now that it's tough to keep up with them all (the @CRANberriesFeed Twitter feed helps, though). But here are a couple of recent package updates that caught my eye:

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David Smith
February 17, 2011

Impersonating our new computer overlords

There's been a lot of news recently (here in the US at least) of the triumph of the supercomputer "Watson" over two human competitors in the TV game show, "Jeopardy!".

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David Smith
February 17, 2011

Student travel grants for useR! 2011

For students planning to attend the annual worldwide R user conference, useR! 2011, travel grants are available to help defray the cost of attending the conference in the UK. CRISM is offering bursaries for accommodation and conference fees, and Revolution Analytics is offering $1,000 travel grants.

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David Smith
February 16, 2011

Take the ggplot2 user survey

The author of the ggplot2 graphics package for R, Hadley Wickham, is looking for feedback from ggplot2 users. If you've used ggplot2, fill out his short survey at the link below.

WuFoo: ggplot2 survey

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David Smith
February 16, 2011

The Egyptian Revolution, in tweets (updated)

(Updated Feb 18) Note: These data actually relate to a gathering of Twitter users in Iran, not Egypt. Apologies for the error, and thanks to the commenters for the correction.