[R] Revolutions Blog: April 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 April:

Information Age published a feature article on R, describing how new
graduates are driving adoption of R in industry: http://bit.ly/KLbHzr

Bob Muenchen has updated his list of R package equivalents to SAS and
SPSS procedures: http://bit.ly/KLbHzt

A history of Data Science, including Bill Cleveland's 2001 paper:
http://bit.ly/KLbHzs

Researchers at SUNY Buffalo are using Revolution R and IBM Netezza
with genetic data to research a cure for Multiple Sclerosis
http://bit.ly/KLbJY5 , and the story has been reported in Forbes,
eWeek and other media: http://bit.ly/KLbJY4

Pairach Piboonrungroj has compiled a list of 20 free R tutorials from
around the world: http://bit.ly/KLbJY3

The annual Rmetrics financial engineering workshop takes place in
Switzerland, June 24-28:  http://bit.ly/KLbHzw

An elegant solution to the pairs-of-squares sequence puzzle discussion
from r-help, based on graph theory: http://bit.ly/KLbJY9

An example of using R to build a recommendation engine, and ranking
the most popular movies from the million row movie dataset:
http://bit.ly/KLbJY8

When is Big Data useful for statistical analysis? Norman Nie provides
five examples in the Sybase Capital Markets Guide:
http://bit.ly/KLbHzx

Revolution Analytics' Spring webinar series is underway, with
presentations on Big Data with R and Hadoop, integrating R with MS
Office, spatial statistics with R, data mining with R and retail
marketing analytics: http://bit.ly/KLbHzy

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration uses R to
forecast river flooding events: http://bit.ly/KLbJYa

R continues its growth in academia (as measured by Google Scholar
citations); SPSS and SAS see steep declines: http://bit.ly/KLbJYb

A fantastic animation of 18th-century sailing shop voyages, created
with R: http://bit.ly/KLbHzz

R and other open source tools used at the new US government agency,
the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: http://bit.ly/KLbJYc

An introduction to the new Julia language, and a comparison with R:
http://bit.ly/KLbJYd

SAP's HANA in-memory datastore provides integration with R: http://bit.ly/KLbJYe

Saraj Gupta has written an in-depth article on how the internals of
R's name lookup mechanism works: http://bit.ly/KLbHzA

LityxIQ uses R functions glm, MASS, rpart, nnet and rjson for their
online marketing analytics and optimization application:
http://bit.ly/KLbJYf

Google can graph 2-variable and 3-variable equations: http://bit.ly/KLbHzB

Other non-R-related stories in the past month included: an animation
of world ocean currents (http://bit.ly/KLbJYg), how English sounds to
Italians (http://bit.ly/KLbJYh), creating the Pharoah's Serpent effect
with mercury thiocynate (http://bit.ly/KLbJYi), and a unique
performance of "Somebody that I Used to Know" (http://bit.ly/KLbJYj).

There are new R user groups in Milan (http://bit.ly/Hylxtp) and
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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Cheers,
# David

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