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Revolution Analytics Partners with Cloudera

Revolution Analytics today announced that it has partnered with Cloudera, the leader in…

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Data Visualization Doesn’t Need to be Biased

At the FlowingData blog, data visualization commentator and Visualize This author Nathan Yau…

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Are New SEC Rules Enough to Prevent Another Flash Crash?

At 2:42PM on March 10 2010, without warning, the Dow Jones Industrial…

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Data Science in the Mainstream

As the Strata Conference continues this week in New York, I've been following…

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How to Program MapReduce Jobs in Hadoop with R

MapReduce is a powerful programming framework for efficiently processing very large amounts…

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Big Analytics: Closing the ‘Clue Gap’ with Big Data

There's been an growing discussion over the past couple of years on…

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How to Access 100M Time Series in R in Under 60 Seconds

DataMarket, a portal that provides access to more than 14,000 data sets…

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The R-Files: Martyn Plummer

"The R-Files" is an occasional series from Revolution Analytics, where we profile…

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Brian Ripley on The R Development Process

R Core member Professor Brian Ripley from Oxford University gave the first keynote…

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The R Ecosystem: a Presentation

I gave my talk to the useR! 2011 conference this morning: The…

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