Revolution Analytics staff write 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.
In case you missed them, here are some articles related to R from the month of February: A statistical analysis of various forecasting methods (using R) leads to correct predictions for 21 of 24 Oscars awards: http://bit.ly/1ngG7mg There are now 123 R User Groups Worldwide, and applications for Revolution Analytics sponsorship grants are open until March 31: http://bit.ly/1ngG4qS Revolution Analytics was named by Gartner as a "Visionary" in a new "Magic Quadrant" report. A "validation of the innovation in the open-source R community", said CEO Dave Rich in a press release: http://bit.ly/1ngG4qT Dan Hanson simulates financial market returns in R using the Generalized Lambda Distribution: http://bit.ly/1ngG1Lw I discussed the next phase of "Big Data" -- driven by the rise of R -- in an interview with theCUBE: http://bit.ly/1ngG1Lx An R-based analysis by Joshua Katz is the basis of an interactive "Dialect Quiz" that broke traffic records at the New York Times: http://bit.ly/1ngG7mh Rattle creator Graham Williams' "One Page R: A Survival Guide to Data Science with R" is actually the entry point to several in-depth R tutorials: http://bit.ly/1ngG4qR An example of using R for topological data analysis: random sampling points from the surface of a torus: http://bit.ly/1ngG1LA A recent feature on Artificial Intelligence in The Atlantic includes a brief mention of R: http://bit.ly/1ngG1LB James Peruvankal on modeling "contagion" in social networks using R: http://bit.ly/1ngG1LC Replay of our webinar with Alteryx, including a demo of accessing R using the drag-and-drop workflow GUI: http://bit.ly/1ngG1LD Plush toys in the shape of statistical distributions, based on patterns created with R: http://bit.ly/1ngG1LG Currency arbitrage using BitCoin, using exchange rates downloaded from the now-defunct MtGox exchange using the quandl package: http://bit.ly/1ngG7mj A guide to creating 3-D perspective plots with R: http://bit.ly/1ngG7mk Revolution R Enterprise is now available in the cloud, in Amazon's AWS Marketplace: http://bit.ly/1ngG1LH According to the 2014 Dice Salary Survey, R is the highest-paid IT skill: http://bit.ly/1ngG1LI A Shiny app that displayed real-time results from the Sochi Olympics, and now shows the final medal tally: http://bit.ly/1ngG1LJ The R package weatherData makes it easy to download weather data into R: http://bit.ly/1ngG7ml In addition to free licenses to individuals in academia, Revolution Analytics now offers $999 site licenses to IT departments at universities and non-profits working for the public good: http://bit.ly/1ngG4H6 R is #15 of all programming languages in the RedMonk rankings: http://bit.ly/1ngG4H7 Some non-R stories in the past month included: special effects using just an office projector (http://bit.ly/1ngG7mm), and clips from the movie Dynamic Earth. Meeting times for local R user groups (http://bit.ly/eC5YQe) can be found on the updated R Community Calendar at: http://bit.ly/bb3naW 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, or join the Revolution Analytics mailing list at http://revolutionanalytics.com/newsletter to be alerted to new articles on a monthly basis. As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at da...@revolutionanalytics.com . Don't forget you can also follow the blog using an RSS reader, or by following me on Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <da...@revolutionanalytics.com> Chief Community Officer, Revolution Analytics http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com Tel: +1 (650) 646-9523 (Seattle WA, USA) Twitter: @revodavid ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.