Publications by David Smith
R jumps from 25 to 19 in annual TIOBE rankings of programming language popularity
The TIOBE index ranks popularity of programming languages according to their prevalence on the web. Back in February last year, the R language had risen to #25 in the charts, overtaking both SAS and Matlab. Earlier this month, TIOBE published its annual rankings of programming language popularity for 2011 and R has risen once again: it now ranks ...
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NYT uses R to map the 1%
Last Saturday, the New York Times published a feature article on the wealthiest 1% of Americans. The on-line version of the article included interactive features like this interactive map showing where your household ranks in the country and in local regions. The print edition, however, included some different (and necessarily static) representat...
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RInside updated
The RInside package provides C++ classes that make it easier to embed R in C++ code on many platforms. According to a post from package co-maintainer Dirk Eddelbuettel, the package has just been updated to version 0.2.6 with improved support on Windows, and compatibility with R's standard random number generator. You can download the latest versi...
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Visualize your Facebook friends network with R
A few days ago, Romain François explained how to interface with the Facebook Graph API explorer with R. This was a low-level interface, giving the R programmer the ability to the raw data that Facebook can provide about your connections. Now, just four days later, the first application in R (that I know of) based on the Facebook Graph API has be...
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Hadley Wickham goes behind the scenes on ggplot2
Hadley Wickham, creator of the ggplot2 packages for R (as well as several others) will present a webinar on February 8 going behind the scenes of the popular graphics package. If you've never used ggplot2 before, this will be a great way to learn about the kinds of charts you can create with it; and if you're a regular ggplot2 user Hadley will g...
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New R User Group in Belgium
RBelgium is the latest local R user group to join the R community. Led by R user Jean-Baptiste Poullet, the group will host meetings on the first Friday of each month at the Alfot Hotel in Brussels, as well as weekly coffee get-togethers. The group also provides an on-line discussion forum on statistics and applications with R. You can find ...
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BBBT Podcast with David Smith
Last Friday I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to travel to Boulder, CO and present R and Revolution Analytics to about 20 analysts as part of the Boulder BI Brain Trust (BBBT). It was a great pleasure to describe the vision for Revolution R Enterprise and got some great feedback from the particpants. During the event, I had a great 1...
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Announcing the winners of the Applications of R in Business contest
It's with great pleasure that the team at Revolution Analytics announces the winners of the inaugural “Applications of R in Business” contest: Grand Prize ($10,000): Shannon Terry and Ben Ogorek, Nationwide Insurance for 'A Direct Marketing In-flight Forecasting System' Runner Up Prize ($5,000): Jeffrey Breen, Atmosphere Research Group for...
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New R User Group in Cleveland
Another new local R user group has just started up, this time in Cleveland, OH. The Cleveland R User Group is the brainchild of R user Nicholas Hermez, and their first meeting on February 22 is a get-together to plan future topics, presenters and venues. If you're in the Cleveland area why not drop by and contribute your ideas? By the way, don't ...
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Pre-conference tutorials announced for useR! 2012
The worldwide R user conference, useR! 2012, will take place this year June 12-15 in Nashville, Tennessee. In addition to the regular program of invited and contributed talks, a highlight of every useR! is the pre-conference tutorials: hand-on, half-day in-depth expert-led sessions with a focused on a specific area of methodology with R. This yea...
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