[R] Revolutions blog roundup: October 2018

[David Smith (CDA)]

For almost 10 years, Microsoft staff and guests have written about R 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 October:

Peter Provost ports some 80's-era BASIC programs for kids to R:
https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/gravedigger-in-r.html

In a podcast for Fringe FM, I discuss the ethics of AI, Microsoft and Open
Source, and the R Community:
https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/fringe-fm-podcast.html

Roundup of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science news from September 2018:
https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/ai-roundup-oct-2018.html

In this episode of "Guy in a Cube", R is used to visualize Anscombe's Quartet
via Power BI:
https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/anscombes-quartet.html

Di Cook suggests using computer vision to automate statistical model assessment
for machine learning in the 2018 Belz Lecture:
https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/human-vs-computer.html

R provides the analysis behind a front-page story on bridge safety in the
Baltimore Sun:
https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/bridge-safety-in-r.html

Tomas Kalibera describes the big impacts of a small tweak to the logical
comparison operators in R:
https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/index.html

The Economist is now using R to calculate its famous "Big Mac Index":
https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/big-mac-index.html

Behind-the-scenes details of how R gets built on Windows, from a presentation by
Jeroen Ooms:
https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/how-r-gets-built-on-windows.html

The R Consortium has accepted another round of grant applications for R
community projects:
https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/r-consortium-grant-applications-due-october-31.html

A list of upcoming R conferences:
https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/a-few-upcoming-r-conferences.html

A recap of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science announcements from the
Microsoft Ignite conference:
https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/ignite-ai-announcements.html

And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R):

* A lesson on diversity: the Parable of the Polygons
https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/because-its-friday-parable-of-the-polygons.html

* The story behind the baseball scene in The Naked Gun:
https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/because-its-friday-hey-its-enrico-palazzo.html

* Public Key Cryptography, as explained by IKEA:
https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/because-its-friday-if-ikea-did-algorithms.html

As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at
davidsmi using microsoft.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid).

Cheers,
# David

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