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Travel funding available for UseR! and DSC 2009

If you're a graduate student or junior faculty member at a US…

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Intelligent Enterprise on R, SAS and REvolution Computing

Intelligent Enterprise follows the story of SAS's forthcoming integration with R, including…

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A video introduction to R for Excel users

D Kelly O'Day has posted a great video introduction to R over…

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Quote of the day

"Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows and gesture…

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Experimenting on Facebook

Last week, The Economist asked Cameron Marlow, Facebook's in-house sociologist, to run…

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R Finance Events Coming Soon

Later this month, REvolution Computing is pleased to present two seminars for…

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Rich voters, poor voters, and the 2008 election

Andrew Gelman, guest-blogging at fivethirtyeight.com, uses survey data from before the 2008…

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Reminder: DSC 2009 abstract submissions due March 15

Peter Dalgaard reminds us that abstracts for DSC 2009 are due by…

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Package Update Roundup: Feb 2009

In this new monthly feature, we present a roundup of R packages…

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R 2.9.0 scheduled for April 17

It was announced today that the next update to R, version 2.9.0,…

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