Big Data Statistics in the Search for a Cure for MS
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating and complex disease with an unknown cause — and for which there is currently no…
Simple Tools for Building a Recommendation Engine
Revolution’s resident economist, Saar Golde, is very fond of saying that “90% of what you might from a recommendation engine…
How NOAA uses R to forecast river flooding.
Thanks to the lower-than-usual snowfall over most of the US this past winter, there's low risk of major flooding as the…
The Fallacy of the Data Scientist Shortage
There is no question that the USA (in fact, most of the world) would be well-served with more quantitatively capable…
R and Hadoop: Step-by-step Tutorials
At the recent Big Data Workshop held by the Boston Predictive Analytics group, airline analyst and R user Jeffrey Breen gave a step-by-step…
R Integrated Throughout the Enterprise Analytics Stack
The past couple of years have seen a dramatic growth in the use of the R language in the enterprise.…
Creating Beautiful Maps with R
Spanish R user and solar energy lecturer Oscar Perpiñán Lamigueiro has written a detailed three-part guide to creating beautiful maps and choropleths…
Accelerating Analytics at MSU with Revolution R Enterprise
Erik Sigur, Information Technologist for the Department of Statistics and Probability at Michigan State University, writes at ReadWriteWeb about using Revolution…
Big Data: Will Open Source Software Challenge BI & Analytics Software Vendors
Predictive Analytics has been billed as the next big thing for almost fifteen years, but hasn’t gained mass acceptance so…
Big Data Analytics a Key Enabler for Social CRM – Airlines Case Study
Big Data Analytics is a hot topic of discussion these days. But many feel that it is more of a…
