In case you missed them, here are some articles from August of particular interest to R users.
An amusing short video extols the benefits of reproducible research with R.
A guide to implementing a churn model for mobile phone customers with Microsoft R Services.
Computerworld's Sharon Machlis presents 5 data visualizations each using 5 lines of R code.
A five-part video series introducing Microsoft R Services.
David Robinson analyzes the sentiment of Donald Trump's (and staffers') tweets with R
Microsoft R Open 3.3.1 is now available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
When to use (and when not to use) dual Y axes on time series charts.
You can now use R from PowerBI to import, transform and visualize data.
An in-depth look at deep learning frameworks: Part 1 and Part 2.
The Data Science Summit (Sep 26-27 in Atlanta) features several R-related talks and a keynote presentation by Edward Tufte.
The jailbreakr package locates and extracts sub-tables from messy spreadsheets.
Using R to extract information from a PDF table to create a map of dispensary locations.
Student debt is rising quickly in the US, as shown using the animation package.
A guide to tuning Apache Spark to optimize computations with Microsoft R Server.
A review of several R packages providing access to online data sources.
A cheat-sheet for the dplyrXdf package.
A beautiful example of creating publication-ready interactive graphics with R.
A guide to simulating from the bivariate Normal distribution with R.
Where to find resources previously available on the now-decommissioned inside-r.org.
An introduction to ROC curves in R.
Azure ML Studio now supports Microsoft R Open and Python 2 and 3.
General interest stories (not related to R) in the past month included: the font of the Stranger Things titles, gravity waves, a first-squirrel view, and history set to 70's pop.
As always, thanks for the comments and please send any suggestions to me at [email protected]. Don't forget you can follow the blog using an RSS reader, via email using blogtrottr, or by following me on Twitter (I'm @revodavid). You can find roundups of previous months here.
Comments