[R] Revolutions blog: February 2016 roundup

[David Smith]

Since 2008, Microsoft (formerly Revolution Analytics) staff and guests have written 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.

And in case you missed them, here are some articles related to R from the month of February:

A tutorial on presenting interactive versions of R maps in PowerBI:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/r-maps-in-powerbi.html

An animation of Japan's population pyramid through 2050 based on US Census Bureau demographic projections:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/japans-ageing-population-animated-with-r.html

Interactive visualizations of multivariate data in R with the threejs package:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/multivariate_data_with_r.html

New Zealand's tourism ministry uses R and Shiny to create a public dashboard exploring the economic impact of tourism:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/explore-new-zealands-tourist-industry-with-r-and-shiny.html

Microsoft uses R to forecast usage of the Xbox One gaming system:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/xbox_usage_trends_r.html

R scores highly in the latest Tiobe and Redmonk language rankings:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/latest-redmonk-and-tiobe-language-rankings-for-r.html

A minor update to Microsoft R Open 3.2.3: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/microsoft-r-open-323-update.html

Applications from the Bay Area R User Group: simulating poker tournaments, recommending movies, predicting the Oscars,
and analyzing electronic medical records:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/bay-area-user-group-lightning-talks.html

Lionel Henry's proposals to improve the syntax of R:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/new-syntax-proposed-for-r-language.html

Repositories of talks given to various R user groups: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/more_rug_sites.html

RStudio now supports user-created add-ins:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/you-can-now-extend-rstudio-with-add-ins.html

Replay of the webinar presented by Derek Norton on Microsoft R Server:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/using-microsoft-r-server-to-address-scalability-issues-in-r.html

Accessing data in SQL Server on Azure with R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/ms_sql_azure.html

A look at the R community in Poland: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/r-user-groups-in-poland.html

A tutorial on credit card fraud detection using R and SQL Server:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/data-science-deep-dive-with-revoscaler.html

A replay (with slides) of a recent webinar on Microsoft R Open:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/introducing-microsoft-r-open-replay-and-slides.html

How to use Microsoft R Open with RStudio: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/using-mro-with-rstudio.html

The world's longest commercial flights, mapped with R:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/mapping-the-worlds-longest-plane-fights.html

How to use PostgresSQL with R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/postgressql_r.html

Replay of a presentation by Max Kuhn on predictive modeling with R and the caret package:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/applied-predictive-modeling.html

General interest stories (not related to R) in the past month included: performing accents
(http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/because-its-friday-accents.html), realizing a video game world
(http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/because-its-friday-networking-in-destiny.html), combining dance and CGI
(http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/using-microsoft-r-server-to-address-scalability-issues-in-r.html), and a
mysterious rotating illusion
(http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/02/because-its-friday-the-mysterious-rotating-woman.html).

Meeting times for local R user groups (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/local-r-groups.html) can be found on the
updated R Community Calendar at: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/calendar.html
If you're looking for more articles about R, you can find summaries from previous months at
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As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at davidsmi at microsoft.com or via Twitter
(I'm @revodavid).

Cheers,
# David

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