Data Says R Amongst Most Popular Languages
Data Scientist Drew Conway tackles the problem of deciding which programming languages are the most popular in an interesting way:…
Tips on Accessing Data from Various Sources with R
Jeffrey Breen (the man behind the Twitter airline sentiment analysis example) recently posted a collection of slides with some great…
Who Is Winning the Real Cyber War?
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind,” said Sir Winston Churchill at Harvard University in 1943.…
Browse the In-development R Sources at GitHub
As an open-source project, the R source code has always been available to download from the R-project website. You can…
3-D Animation of the Changing Antarctic Ice Sheet
Last month we shared an visualization showing the changing extent of Arctic sea-ice. This visualization by the multinational Commission for the…
Using R in Production: Industry Experts Share Their Experiences
I had a great time yesterday moderating the "R in Action" panel discussion at the DataWeek conference in San Francisco.…
Population health management with RevoScaleR
This guest post is by Douglas McNair MD PhD, Engineering Fellow & President, Cerner Math Inc. -- ed. This guest post is…
Cheat Sheet for Prediction and Classification Models in R
Ricky Ho has created a reference a 6-page PDF reference card on Big Data Machine Learning, with examples implemented in…
An Analysis of the R-help Mailing List
Even though forums and question-and-answer services like StackOverflow are emerging as the place to find crowdsourced technical help when using…
Surveys Continue to Rank R #1 for Data Mining
KDnuggets recently posted its annual poll on data mining software, and the R language retains its #1 ranking as the most…