Publications by David Smith
R charts used for analysis at Politico
Zack Abrahamson, the “data whiz” at political analysis site Politico, is apparently an R user. Politico's Feb 10 2012 chart of the day clearly uses the ggplot2 graphics package and (quoting Politico) looks into the disenchanted slice of the GOP that’s not engaged with its party’s primary. And that slice doesn’t like Mitt Romney. People...
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A new local R user group in Cambridge, UK
It turns out there's another local R user group in Cambridge, UK. It's called CambR, and organizing committee member Laurent Gatto described its history to me in an email: After meeting repeatedly at several R related conferences (Bioconductor meetings, useR 2011), some R enthusiasts thought Cambridge deserved a local R user group and founded Ca...
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In case you missed it: January Roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from January of particular interest to R users. Sponsorships from Revolution Analytics are now available for local R user groups in 2012. The winners of the Applications of R in Business Contest have been announced. The coefplot package visualizes model coefficients and standard errors in a line c...
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R 2.14.2 and R 2.15.0 coming soon
The R core group has announced release dates for the next two versions of R (with their code names): 2.14.2 “Gift-Getting Season” on Feb 29 (3rd anniversary of R-1.0.0!)2.15.0 “Easter Beagle” on Mar 30 R 1.0.0 was released twelve years ago on February 29, 2000; this will be the third February 29 since then. (Hence Peter Dalgaard's littl...
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Introduction to R for software developers and data analysts
If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area on March 10, the ACM organizing a course on R that you might want to check out. Robert Kabacoff, author of the useful Quick-R website and the book R in Action, will present the course “An introduction to R for software developers and data analysts“. The course is sponsored by Revolution Analytics and ...
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Revolution Newsletter: February 2012
The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full February edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. Revolution Analytics Welcomes New CEO, Dave Rich. Dave joins the Revolu...
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R in Financial Services Viewpoint newsletter
The Winter 2012 edition of Sybase's Financial Services Viewpoint newsletter includes two articles related to R. The “Industry Insight” article “R is Hot” (written by yours truly) is a one-page summary of the R phenomenon: what it is, how it's used, and how it's revolutionizing data analysis. The “Industry Insight” article by SAP's Mel...
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New R User Group at Berkeley
There's a new R user group in Berkely, CA: The Berkeley R Language Beginner Study Group. Join this small group for a step-by-step approach to learn the language R. Each session will be filled with examples and participants are welcome to suggest and present topics. If you have just started with R this is the perfect chance to find out about dat...
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Webinar Wednesday: Introduction to Revolution R Enterprise
If you haven't yet had a chance to catch my regularly-scheduled webinar, “Revolution R Enterprise – 100% R and More”, it's a quick 30-minute introduction to the R language and the added features of Revolution R Enterprise. It's also a chance to ask me any questions you might have about R or Revolution Analytics during the live broadcast (st...
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Introduction to R and Revolution R Enterprise: Slides
If you missed this morning's webinar, Revolution R Enterprise, 100% R and More, I've embedded the slides below. Interestingly, about half of today's participants were SAS users, and the remainder R users. The first section introduces open-source R, and the second describes the additional features of Revolution R Enterprise. View more presentatio...
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