[R] Revolutions Blog: May Roundup

[David Smith]

I write about R every weekday at the Revolutions blog:
 http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com
and every month I post a summary of articles from the previous month
of particular interest to readers of r-help.

In case you missed them, here are some articles related to R from the
month of May:

R tops the annual KDNuggets Data Mining Software poll for the first
time: http://bit.ly/Kjr9mr

R 2.15.1 is scheduled for June 22: http://bit.ly/KjraH2 . (Revolution
R Enterprise, released on June 5, is based on 2.14.2:
http://bit.ly/KjraH3 .)

A tutorial uses R, Hadoop, and the RHadoop project to simulate and
analyze a Facebook-sized social network: http://bit.ly/KjraH1

The New York Times uses R to chart the size of Facebook's public
offering: http://bit.ly/Kjr9ms

An R-based analysis of US politician speeches finds them speaking at
8th-grade level, and getting worse: http://bit.ly/Kjr9mt

The tabplot package gives you a quick visual overview of a data frame:
http://bit.ly/KjraH4

An R-based analysis of the TV series "Mad Men" finds issue with the
use of the word "callback": http://bit.ly/Kjr9mv

You can see video of R integrated into end-user applications
(QlikView, Excel, Jaspersoft, and an iPad app) in this Revolution
Analytics webinar replay: http://bit.ly/Kjr9mu

A FourSquare engineer explains how R fits in to their social
geolocation application and recommendation engine:
http://bit.ly/Kjr9mw

A sociology Ph.D candidate explains why he switched from Stata to
full-time use of R: http://bit.ly/KjraH5

R is classified as a "major programming language" by O'Reilly, in a
report noting that books about R have grown in sales by 127%:
http://bit.ly/Kjr9mx

Google's former CIO writes about Big Data and R in Forbes: http://bit.ly/Kjr9my

The replay and slides for the webinar, "Big Data Analytics with R and
Hadoop": http://bit.ly/Kjr9mz

Other non-R-related stories in the past month included: Google
BigQuery (http://bit.ly/KjraH8), a statistician in the Time 100
(http://bit.ly/Kjr9mA), why a statistician couldn't send an email more
than 500 miles away (http://bit.ly/Kjr9mB), an EU ruling on a SAS case
finds that programming languages can't be copyrighted
(http://bit.ly/KjraHd), a clever application of Game Theory
(http://bit.ly/Kjr9mD), a review of the 2012 Data Science Summit
(http://bit.ly/Kjr9mC), results of the 2012 Future of Open Source
Survey (http://bit.ly/KjraHe) and a fun use of PhotoShop
(http://bit.ly/KjraHf).

There'a a new R user group in Cologne (http://bit.ly/KLbHzE). Meeting
times for local R user groups (http://bit.ly/eC5YQe) can be found on
the updated R Community Calendar at: http://bit.ly/bb3naW

If you're looking for more articles about R, you can find summaries
from previous months at http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/roundups/.
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articles on a monthly basis.

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Cheers,
# David

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