Since 2008, Microsoft (formerly Revolution Analytics) staff and guests have written about R every weekday 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.
And in case you missed them, here are some articles related to R from the month of July: R moves up to 5th place in the annual IEEE Spectrum programming language rankings: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/r-moves-up-to-5th-place-in-ieee-language-rankings.html A guide to R-related presentations at the JSM 2016 conference: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/an-r-users-guide-to-jsm-2016.html FiveThirtyEight uses R extensively for data journalism, as explained in a presentation at useR!2016: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/data-journalism-with-r-at-538.html An in-depth look at DeployR's enterprise security model when calling R functions via the web services API: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/deployr-enterprise-security-model.html Microsoft R Open 3.3.0 is now available for Windows, Mac and PC: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/microsoft-r-open-330-now-available.html A survey of quantitative business professionals ranks R in top position by usage (followed by SAS and Python): http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/burtch-survey.html Microsoft is hosting its first Data Science Summit: a conference for data scientists in Atlanta GA, September 26-27: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/microsoft-ds-summit.html An interactive tree map of Pokemon Go characters, created with R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/an-analysis-of-pok%C3%A9mon-go-types-created-with-r.html Using R to manage energy usage on the Microsoft campus: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/energy-load-shaping.html Why does NA^0 equal 1 in R? http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/understanding-na-in-r.html Two presentations by me, recorded at useR!2016: How Microsoft uses data science to improve the lives of people with disabilities, and how R is integrated into Microsoft products: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/r-at-microsoft-user-2016.html A review of some recently-released R packages, by Joe Rickert: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/some-new-r-packages.html How to create a Power BI dashboard based on SQL Server and R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/sql-server-power-bi-and-r.html Microsoft R Client is a desktop-based version of Microsoft R Server, includes the big-data ScaleR package, and free to download and use: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/microsoft-r-client.html Resources (code and slides) from the tutorials presented at the useR!2016 conference: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/user-2016-tutorials-part-2-.html Rick Becker presents the birth of the S language at Bell Labs: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/rick-becker-s-talk.html Using Microsoft R Server within the Data Science Virtual Machine to graph airline delays from 14Gb of flight records: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/dplyrxdf-flight-arrival-delays.html General interest stories (not related to R) in the past month included: bad maps (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/because-its-friday-bad-maps.html), bird migration (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/because-its-friday-bird-migration.html), how to tell a B737 from an A320 (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/because-its-friday-b373-a320.html), a beginner's introduction to data science (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/data-science-for-beginners.html), animal 'facts' (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/fake-animal-facts.html), and animals and fairness (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/because-its-friday-animal-intelligence-animal-fairness.html). If you're looking for more articles about R, you can find summaries from previous months at http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/roundups/. You can receive daily blog posts via email using services like blogtrottr.com. As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at david...@microsoft.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <david...@microsoft.com> R Community Lead, Microsoft Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
