In case you missed them, here are some articles from April of particular interest to R users.
The rxExecBy function (in Microsoft R Server) deploys "embarassingly parallel" problems to remote compute services.
An interesting population map, reminiscent of a Joy Division album cover, shows Europe's population density using just 14 lines of R code.
Financial startup dv01 uses R to bring greater transparency to consumer lending.
Reproducibility with knitr: how to use the "checkpoint" package with the "Knit" feature in RStudio.
A summary of the improvements in R 3.4.0.
Slides from my recent talk, "Reproducible Data Science with R".
SQL Server 2017 will support both R and Python for in-database computation.
New features in Microsoft R Server 9.1, now available.
A sentiment analysis of Warren Buffett's letters to shareholders.
A workshop on Artificial Intelligence, featuring Microsoft R, is being held by Microsoft in Seattle on May 9.
The interactive website Seeing Theory demonstrates statistical principles via simulation.
Ben Marwick reports on R topics at the 2017 Society of American Archaeology meeting.
The checkpoint package adds new features for managing package versions in service of reproducibility.
There were several R-related announcements at the online Data Amp event on April 19. A replay is now available.
The vtreat package helps statisticians prepare real-world data for analysis.
Maëlle Salmon used R to create a collage of R users participating in the #rstats hashtag on Twitter.
Microsoft R Open 3.3.3 (based on R 3.3.3) is now available.
A link between rational functions and OLS regression.
Use the sqlrutils package in Microsoft R Client to publish R functions as stored procedures in SQL Server.
Ranking of the most popular languages for Data Scientists/Engineers, from the StackOverflow Developer Survey.
Slides and code from the tutorial "Using R for Scalable Data Analytics: Single Machines to Spark Clusters".
And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R):
- A Turing Machine, implemented in PowerPoint
- Secrets of the lines of the London Underground
- Reddit's "r/place" communal art experiment
- How "Elite: Dangerous" simulated an entire galaxy for a video game
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Great blog my friend :-)
Posted by: Stewart Harding | May 08, 2017 at 14:01