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 April: Lukasz Piwek recreates classic graphs from Tufte's 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information' in R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/tufte-style-graphics-in-r.html A preview of upcoming R conferences in Europe: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/r-conferences-europe-2016.html Andrie de Vries updates the data on R package growth on CRAN, http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/cran-package-growth.html and finds a segmented regression model with break-points in 2007 and 2011 fits the data well: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/a-segmented-model-of-cran-package-growth.html A Microsoft data scientist compares R, Microsoft R Open and Microsoft R Server: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/data-scientist-perspective.html A webinar on data visualization with Microsoft R Open, presented by Naomi and Joyce Robbins: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/webinar-april-28-effective-graphs.html Microsoft R Open 3.2.4 now available for Windows, Mac and Linux: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/mro-324-available.html A preview of R/Finance 2016, May 20-21 in Chicago: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/get-ready-for-rfinance-2016.html Julia Silge releases a CRAN package with the text of Jane Austin's novels, and uses the syuzhet package to map sentiment in the narratives: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/pride-and-prejudice-and-z-scores.html Modeling tips paid to taxi drivers in NYC with Microsoft R Server running on HDInsight Hadoop: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/mrs-nyc-taxi.html A webinar recording (with slides) shows how to scale Microsoft R Server to very large data sets on HDInsight with Apache Spark: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/scalable-ds-platform.html News on recent grants to community projects by the R Consortium (proposals for the next round are due July 10): http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/get-involved-with-the-r-consortium.html The Microsoft Data Science Virtual Machine, which packages many data science tools including R, is now available as a Linux VM: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/microsoft-ds-vm-linux.html Buzzfeed used R to visualize the activity of surveillance aircraft used by the US government: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/the-fbis-aerial-surveillance-program-visualized-with-r.html Using Azure ML and R to predict the quality of wine: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/predicting-wine-quality.html A review of the book 'Graphical Data Analysis with R' by Antony Unwin: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/graphical-data-analysis-with-r.html Montgomery County, MD opened its traffic violation data, and Srini Kumar used SQL Server and R to visualize it: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/an-analysis-of-traffic-violation-data-with-sql-server-and-r.html 80% of Airbnb's data scientists use R, and share methods and tools via an internal R package: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/airbnb-uses-r.html Microsoft sponsors a competition using R to evaluate a treatment for brain injury and infer vision from brain waves: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/connected-brains.html General interest stories (not related to R) in the past month included stories about: the new Thunderbirds (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/thunderbirds-are-go.html), Australian abbreviations (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/abbreviated-discource.html), anamorphic illusions (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/witness-brusspup-illusions.html), the jet streams of Earth and Jupiter (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/because-its-friday-jet-stream.html), and never-seen YouTube videos (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/petit-tube.html). Meeting times for local R user groups (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/local-r-groups.html) can be found on the updated R Community Calendar at: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/calendar.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.
