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Because It’s the Weekend: Curiosity’s Landing on Mars [VIDEO]

In 2004, NASA sent two rovers to Mars. Each rover had scheduled…

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Applications of R at Google

At a talk I saw at the useR!2012 conference last month, Googler…

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Importing Public Data with SAS Instructions into R

Many public agencies release data in a fixed-format ASCII (FWF) format. But…

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Evolving the Formula 1 Racer

Since the first Formula 1 auto race in 1950, the drive for…

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3 Hours of Pure Soccer Emotion, Visualized with R

The biggest prize in UK soccer, the Premier League Championship, is decided…

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A New Open Journal on Data Science

Springer has introduced a new open, peer-reviewed journal focused on Data Science:…

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The Role of Statistics in the Higgs Boson Discovery

News is starting to leak that the Large Hadron Collider may have…

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Because It’s the Weekend: The Chances of Finding Mr./Mrs. Right

The video below by Emanuele Colombo is adorable. But, this being a…

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CIO.com: R is a Big Data open-source technology to watch

CIO.com recently published its list of 9 open-source technologies to watch. Hadoop…

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Birthday Probabilities: Heat Map vs. R

Last week, Joe Rickert used R and four years of US Census…

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