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 December: Power BI now has a gallery of custom visualizations built with R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/power-bi-custom-visuals-based-on-r.html Chicago's Department of Public Health uses R to prioritize health inspections at restaurants: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/food-inspection-forecasting.html A beautiful map of Switzerland municipalities combined with a relief map of the mountains, created with R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/swiss-map.html Using the Azure Interface Tool to parallelize the problem of optimizing an R model across the hyperparameter space: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/azure-r-interface-tool.html A primer on Bayesian Statistics: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/bayesian-inference.html Animating Voronoi tesselations in R to create a greeting card: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/merry-christmas.html The Linux Data Science Virtual Machine, which includes several R-related components, is available for a free "test drive" on Azure: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/dsvm-test-drive.html The new AzureSMR package lets you manage Azure virtual machines, clusters and storage from R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/azuresmr.html Interactive decision trees in Microsoft R Server: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/interactive-decision-trees-with-microsoft-r.html The ompr package provides numerical optimization with mixed integer programming: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/mixed-integer-programming-in-r-with-the-ompr-package.html Predicting flu deaths in China with R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/predicting-flu-deaths.html Using the circlize package and Microsoft R Server's Spark interface to visualize millions of taxi trips: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/taxi-mrs-spark.html The State of Indiana uses R to forecast employment: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/state-of-indiana-employment.html "One Page R" is a free, multi-chapter tutorial on data science topics with R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/one-page-r.html The Deputy Chief Economist at Freddie Mac used R to animate the different rates of housing price increases around the world: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/housing-prices.html I gave a talk about the value of ecosystems to open source projects, using R as an example: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/the-value-of-rs-open-source-ecosystem.html A summary of some recent projects funded by the R Consortium: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/r-consortium-projects-update.html Microsoft R Server 9.0, featuring R 3.3.2 and support for Spark 2.0, is now available: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/microsoft-r-server-90-now-available.html The dplyrXdf package has been updated with new features for managing XDF data sets in Microsoft R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/dplyrxdf-090-now-available.html A stylometric analysis of the speeches of the Prime Minister of Pakistan: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/stylometry.html Using R and the d3heatmap package to visualize the emotional journey of characters in "War and Peace": http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/war-and-peace.html#more General interest stories (not related to R) in the past month included: the horrors of 2016 (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/because-its-friday-goodbye-2016.html), a Machinima Christmas carol (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/because-its-friday-a-christmas-destiny.html), freezing bubbles (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/because-its-friday-im-forever-freezing-bubbles.html), dark comics (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/because-its-friday-angst-in-four-panels.html), and a virtual flight along the US-Mexico border (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/because-its-friday-border.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.
