I took some online courses in data mining last year at statistics.com, some of which featured R. I was pleased with it, although I haven't tried to integrate it in any programming project, and I only scratched the surface. I also would highly recommend the courses at statistics.com. Now if I could just work out the data collection to make use of the data mining techniques on our library data.
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Glen Newton - NRC/CNRC CISTI/ICIST Research <glen.new...@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> wrote: > >>>>> "William" == William Denton <w...@pobox.com> writes: > William> Are any of you using R? http://www.r-project.org/ > > I use R for a number of things, including the multidimensional > scaling (512-->2) I do here: > > http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2009/07/project-torngat-building-large-scale.html > > It is fast, backed by the stats braniacs, has a huge number of > domain-specific modules (biology, genomics, geology, engineering, > ....). > > It is great. Slices bread, juliennes fries, casts my votes, does my > taxes, feeds my dogs and submits my postings to code4lib. ;-) > > -glen > > > > >>>>> "William" == William Denton <w...@pobox.com> writes: > > William> Are any of you using R? http://www.r-project.org/ > > William> Blog about R, info viz, etc.: > William> http://blog.revolution-computing.com/ > > William> I have something in mind I'm going to try fooling around > William> with in R, but I wondered if anyone was using it for > William> visualizing searches, usage, networks of information, > William> that kind of thing. > > William> Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org > William> www.frbr.org openfrbr.org > > -- > > Glen Newton | glen.new...@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca > Researcher, Information Science, CISTI Research > & NRC W3C Advisory Committee Representative > http://tinyurl.com/yvchmu > tel/tél <http://tinyurl.com/yvchmu%0Atel/t%C3%A9l>: 613-990-9163 | > facsimile/télécopieur 613-952-8246 > Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) > National Research Council Canada (NRC)| M-55, 1200 Montreal Road > http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ > Institut canadien de l'information scientifique et technique (ICIST) > Conseil national de recherches Canada | M-55, 1200 chemin Montréal > Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6 > Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada > -- > -- Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian Colgate University Libraries char...@colgate.edu 315-228-7363
