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Demand for R Jobs on the Rise, While SAS Jobs Decline

Job-tracking site indeed.com shows the rate at which certain terms appear in…

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A Great Example of Simpson’s Paradox: US Median Wage Decline

Since 2000, the median US wage has risen about 1%, adjusted for…

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What is R? A New Video on the History, Community and Applications of R [VIDEO]

We meet a lot of R users on our travels, and something…

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High-Performing Predictive Analytics with R and Hadoop

I'm a bit late catching up on this, but Mario Inchosa (Revolution…

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A Comprehensive Guide to Time Series Plotting in R

As R has evolved over the past 20 years its capabilities have improved…

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How Big Data and Statistical Modeling Are Changing Video Games [WEBINAR REPLAY]

Bill Grosso presented a fascinating webinar about the video gaming industry yesterday: Knowing…

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Social Data: The Arteries of the World, in Tweets

What happens when you plot billions of geotagged Tweets on a map?…

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Big Data Republic’s List of Top 20 Big Data Accounts on Twitter

I'm very proud to have been selected today for Big Data Republic's…

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Statistics vs. Data Science vs. BI

As someone who trained as a statistician, I've always struggled with that…

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Explaining Real-Time Predictive Analytics with Big Data [VIDEO]

In my presentation to the Strata Santa Clara 2013 conference earlier this…

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