Revolution Analytics Hosts Contest on Business Predicting the Future
Revolution Analytics recently announced the winners of its “Applications of R in Business” contest. Revolution Analytics has built a business around…
R Chart featured in Facebook IPO
Page 7 of Facebook's 213-page S-1 filing for their record-breaking IPO includes the following chart, under the headline: "Our Mission:…
Analytic Applications are Built by Data Scientists
Ventana Research analyst David Menninger was on the judging panel for the Applications of R in Business contest. In a…
Text Analytics for Telecommunications – Part 1
As discussed in the previous post, performing Text Analytics for a language for which no tools exist is not an…
December 2011 issue of the R Journal: An overview
The December 2011 issue of the R Journal is now available for download. Three times a year, the open-access journal…
EMC Survey Differentiates BI and Data Science
EMC last week published the results of a survey of 462 IT decision makers who self-identified as either a data scientist…
Revolution Newsletter: December 2011
The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full December edition (with…
Mapping Prosperity in France with R
The choropleth below (created by Baptiste Coulmont) is a sort of prosperity map of France: the blue areas have high levels…
Using R to Create a Logo: Simple
R user Josh Reich, who we've featured here on the blog before, is also the CEO and co-founder of the…
R Still the Preferred Tool of Predictive Modelers Competing at Kaggle
As reported on the Kaggle blog No Free Hunch, R remains the preferred tool for data scientists seeking to win…
