[OGRUG] Fwd: [OTT-GOSLING] "Applications of R in Government"

[John C Nash]

This might interest the group.

JN


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Subject: [OTT-GOSLING] "Applications of R in Government"
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:07:27 -0400
From: Glen Newton <glen.newton at gmail.com>
Reply-To: GOSLING members in Ottawa <ottawa-gosling at list.goslingcommunity.org>
To: GOSLING members in Ottawa <ottawa-gosling at list.goslingcommunity.org>,
civicaccess discuss <civicaccess-discuss at civicaccess.ca>,        Paul Budkewitsch
<paul.budkewitsch at gmail.com>

>From the article:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012/06/applications-of-r-in-government.html
- In the early days of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, NIST used
uncertainty analysis in R to harmonize spill estimates from various
sources, and to provide ranges of estimates to other agencies and the
media.
- Before new drugs are allowed on the market, the FDA works with
pharmaceutical companies to verify safety and efficacy through
clinical trials. Despite a false perception that only commercial
software may be used, many pharmaceutical companies are now using
open-source R to analyze data from clinical trials.
- The National Weather Service uses R for research and development of
models to predict river flooding.
- The newly-formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau -- freed from
the restrictions of a legacy IT infrastructure -- is championing the
use of open-source technologies in government.
- Local governments are also building data-based applications. The SF
Estuary Institute uses R and Google Maps to provide a tool to track
pollution in the San Francisco Bay area.

Derived from article:
Government Security News: Open-Source R software driving Big Data
analytics in government
http://www.gsnmagazine.com/node/26483?c=cyber_security

-Glen

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