Resampling Data in Hadoop with RHadoop
On Revolution Analytics partner Cloudera's blog, Uri Laserson has posted an excellent guide to resampling from a large data set in…
Political Revolutions on Twitter, Visualized with R
Twitter has become a powerful medium for organizing and communicating with factions during popular uprisings: the crisis in Egypt, the…
Big Data Trees with Hadoop HDFS
Last month's release of Revolution R Enterprise 6.1 added the capability to fit decision and regresson trees on large data…
Real-Time Predictive Analytics with Big Data, and R
Can R be used for real-time applications? Absolutely! The key is in setting up an technology stack that can support…
Simple Inter-row Computation: esProc Keeps It Simple!
The interrow computation is quite common, such as the aggregate, comparison with same period of any previous year, and link…
Vector Computing, Who Is More Powerful, R Language or esProc?
Do you find Vector Computing tiresome while using statistical computing tools? Here we go for a Vector Computing Comparison: R…
Benchmarking bigglm
By Joseph Rickert By Joseph RickertIn a recent blog post, David Smith reported on a talk that Steve Yun and…
More Data Apps Spawned by Sandy
As the clean-up continues on the eastern seaboard, I wanted to follow up on Monday's post on tracking Hurricane Sandy…
Tracking Hurricane Sandy with Open Data and R
Hurricane Sandy is shaping up to be a major, and very dangerous, meteorological event for the US's East coast. Naturally,…
Two Talks on Data Science, Big Data and R
On Thursday next week (November 1), I'll be giving a new webinar on the topic of Big Data, Data Science…
