Publications by David Smith
The R-Files: Martyn Plummer
“The R-Files” is an occasional series from Revolution Analytics, where we profile prominent members of the R Community. Name: Martyn Plummer Occupation: Statistician at International Agency for Research on Cancer Nationality: British Years Using R: 16 Known for: Member of R core group; member of R Journal editorial board Martyn Plummer is...
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useR! 2011 roundup
As I stand[*] here at Heathrow waiting for my flight back to the States, I thought I'd dash off a few quick reflections of the userR! 2011 conference at University Warwick. It was an outstanding event. There's something about a conference of just a few hundred attendees (there were about 450) that creates a sense of camaraderie and common purpose...
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Webinar Wednesday Aug 24: Revolution R Enterprise, 100% R and More
A heads-up that I'll be giving a free webinar this Wednesday, August 24. In 30 minutes, I'll give an overview of the open-source R project and the additional features of Revolution R Enterprise: R users already know why the R language is the lingua franca of statisticians today: because it's the most powerful statistical language in the world. R...
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More useR! 2011 roundups
If you missed last week's worldwide R user conference at the University of Warwick, several attendees have posted informative roundups of the event. Check out these posts from Patrick Burns, Karl Broman, Colin Gillespie, Pairach Piboonrungroj and Richie Cotton (which features a rare, good Statistics joke). My own roundup of the conference was po...
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The problem with R? Too much new stuff!
In a tongue-in-cheek post at the Information Management blog, Steve Miller shares his “frustration” with R: package developers keep on releasing new functionality for R that makes his own work obsolete. For example, there's now pre-packaged functionality in R for enhanced dotplots, Economist-style graphics, additive regression models and mor...
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New R User Group at University of Utah
There's a new local R user group in Salt Lake City, based at the University of Utah. (There used to be another group in Salt Lake devoted to R/Weka/Processing, but it appears to now be defunct.) This new group has been meeting regularly for some time, and their next meeting, on September 9, will be devoted to short talks about R. University of Ut...
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How to access 100M time series in R in under 60 seconds
DataMarket, a portal that provides access to more than 14,000 data sets from various public and private sector organizations, has more than 100 million time series available for download and analysis. (Check out this presentation for more info about DataMarket.) And now with the new package rdatamarket, it's trivially easy to import those time se...
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9 more ways to bring data into R
Here's a followup to yesterday's post on using the rdatamarket package to import data into R. Ajay Ohri at the DecisionStats blog offers nine additional methods for bringing data into R, from sources including InfoChimps, the Google Prediction API, the World Bank World Development Indicators, Bloomberg Market Data, and much more. See Ajay's post ...
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Revolution R: 100% R and More – slides and replay
If you missed this week's webinar, the slides from my presentation Revolution R Enteprise: 100% R and More may be useful as an introduction to R and the additional capabilities of Revolution R Enterprise. The slides themselves and the replay video are also available for download from the link below. Revolution Analytics webinars: Revolution R E...
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Sharing live R functions with OpenCPU
OpenCPU is a new initiative from R user Jeroen Ooms to make innovations in statistics, visualization and data-science more widely applicable. Based on open-source principles, it's a web-based service that lets you upload data visualizations and analyses as R scripts, and allow others to run them on demand. For example, you can upload a script to...
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