Publications by David Smith
Atlantic Feature on AI and R
A recent feature article in The Atlantic describes the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how researchers “conduct sophisticated data analyses using cloud resources such as Amazon Web Services and R, an open source application for statistics”. (Via JP.) Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on t...
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A survival guide to Data Science with R, from Graham Williams
Graham Williams is the Lead Data Scientist at the Australian Taxation Office, and the creator of Rattle, an open-source GUI for data mining with R. (Check out some recent reviews/demos of Rattle on this blog here and here.) Dr Williams continues his many contributions to the R community with One Page R, a “Survival Guide to Data Science with R...
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Because it’s Friday: US Dialects
In the video below from The Atlantic, the differences in the way US citizens describe or pronounce various things is illustrated in a series of phone calls (via Sullivan): If you're wondering how your dialect fits in, you can try the New York Times Dialect Quiz. Answer 25 questions, and it will identify the 3 US cities that most closely match yo...
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Revolution Analytics named a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms
The entire team at Revolution Analytics is very proud to announce that Gartner has named Revolution Analytics a Visionary in the inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms, published February 19, 2014. The report evaluated 16 vendors through a series of stringent criteria related to the ability to execute and completeness o...
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Who knows the Oscar winners? The betting markets, probably.
This is the time of year when everyone likes to speculate on the winners of the Academy Awards, to be announced on Sunday. There are plenty of ways to try and predict which movie is going to win Best Picture or who'll win Best Actress. You could look at the various betting markets and see who the speculators are favouring. You could take a look a...
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Revolution Analytics in the News: Visionary in the Wired Cloud
Since we've had quite a few announcements over the last month or so, I thought I'd take a moment to catch up on some of the media reports mentioning Revolution Analytics. Last week, Gartner revealed Revolution Analytics as a Visionary in the new Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms. Inside BigData noted that “Alteryx, Revolution Ana...
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R 3.0.3 is now available
R-core member Peter Dalgaard announced yesterday that R 3.0.3 is now available. This is the final update to the R 3.0 series, and includes several small but handy new features and minor bug fixes. Improvements include support for writing very large tables to disk, better handling of foreign-language calendar dates, and more accuracy when calculat...
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In case you missed it: February 2014 roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from February of particular interest to R users: A statistical analysis of various forecasting methods (using R) leads to correct predictions for 21 of 24 Oscars awards. There are now 123 R User Groups worldwide, and applications for Revolution Analytics sponsorship grants are open until March...
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Submit a talk to the R user conference in LA!
The worldwide R user conference, useR! 2014, will take in Los Angeles, June 30-July 3. If you're an R user, or just interested in learning about what R can do first-hand from members of the R community, this is the conference to attend. To get an idea of what to expect, check out our roundups of prior conferences in Warwick (UK), Nashville (USA),...
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How Statistics lifts the fog of war in Syria
In June 2013, the conflict between opposition and government forces around the Syrian city of Aleppo had intensified. Rockets struck residential districts, and car-bombs exploded near key facilities. Many people died. But as is common in conflict areas, the reports of the number of dead varied by the source of the information. While some agencies...
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