Publications by David Smith
R Cookbook
Following up on the successful “R in a Nutshell”, O'Reilly has just published a new book on R, The R Cookbook, by Paul Teetor. Here's the description: Perform data analysis with R quickly and efficiently using the task-oriented recipes in this cookbook. The R language and environment include everything necessary to perform statistical work ...
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R is Hot: Part 4
This is Part 4 of a five-part article series, with new parts published each Thursday. You can download the complete article from the Revolution Analytics website.High Quality Graphics, Made EasyR is especially useful for generating charts and graphics, quickly and easily. The ability to create visual plots of complex data is more than just a hand...
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Revolution Analytics’ Chief Scientist
Lee Edlefsen, who has led the Revolution R development team in Seattle for more than three years, is now the Chief Scientist for Revolution Analytics. With more than 30 years experience in high-performance and statistical computing, this is a great position for Lee. There's more details in the press release linked below. Revolution Analytics: Rev...
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SAS vs Open Source
SAS CEO Jim Goodnight elicited guffaws from the audience during his keynote at JSM this year when he said “I have a problem with government using open source software”. Now it seems Goodnight is at the center of another controversy related to open source, having dismissed the growth of open-source software for business intelligence in an int...
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Because it’s Friday: Werner Heisenberg at a traffic stop
I saw this on in a random image stream and it made me chuckle: A little googling suggests MathematiciansPictures.com is the source, where you can also get Heisenberg on a mug. Whether your coffee is in or outside the mug is, unfortunately, indeterminable. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their bl...
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The stimulus, mapped
Edward Tufte created this “Lights-On Map”, animating the grants under the American Recovery and Investment Act (more commonly known as the Stimulus): Click the image to see the lights come on over time. It's a nice visualization of the distribution of the stimulus projects over the country and time, but I'm actually surprised that it doesn't...
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Google TechTalk on integrating R
As noted on the Google Open Source Blog last week, R package authors Dirk Eddelbuettel and Romain Francois recently gave a presentation on R at the Googleplex, on various topic related to “bridging” R into other systems. Their 90-minute talk is available for replay on YouTube (as part of the Google TechTalks series), and you can download the ...
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SAS vs Open Source, ctd
Following up on the story from last week, where SAS CEO Jim Goodnight said he “hadn't noticed” competition from open-source alternatives, open-source BI vendor Pentaho's “Chief Geek” James Dixon responds: What this means is that SAS has moved from the Igorance phase to the Ridicule phase of battling open source, they only have Fighting a...
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Keeping up with election results, with R
Yesterday's US election is pretty much over now: most of the results are in, the pundits have offered their political analysis, and there's even been a bit of mathematical analysis of the results, too. But last night as the results were flowing in, R user Brock Tibert just wanted to track the results of the Massachusetts governor's race. The Bos...
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R is Hot: Part 5
This the final installment of a five-part article series. You can download the complete article from the Revolution Analytics website. Building a Business The value of R to business is borne out by the experiences of John Lucker and his team of advanced analytics professionals at Deloitte Consulting LLP. John is a Deloitte Consulting Principal a...
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