Publications by David Smith
How NOAA uses R to forecast river flooding
Thanks to the lower-than-usual snowfall over most of the US this past winter, there's low risk of major flooding as the snow melts this Spring (for the first time in four years!). Nonetheless, being able to forecast river flood events is of critical importance to local emergency managers, water & electric utilities, river navigation companies, ...
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Revolution Analytics Spring Webinar Series
The webinar team at Revolution Analytics has put together a great program over the next couple of months. With a mix of guest speakers and Revolution Analytics staff, this series will cover topics as diverse as Big Data with R and Hadoop, integrating R with MS Office, spatial statistics with R, data mining with R, retail marketing analytics, and ...
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When do you need all the data for Big Analytics?
In the 2012 edition of the SAP Sybase Capital Markets Guide, Revolution Analytics' Senior Advisor for Products and Strategy (and former CEO) Norman Nie writes about the “Five Benefits of Big Analytics”. (You can also read his article at Enterprise Innovation.) Norman makes the argument that while sampling and aggregation are often useful way...
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Revolution Newsletter: April 2012
The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full April edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. Spring Webinar Series. Our Spring Webinar Series features presentations fro...
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Puzzle: A path through pairs making squares
Ted Harding posed an interesting puzzle challenge on the r-help mailing list recently. Here's the puzzle: Take the numbers 1, 2, 3, etc. up to 17. Can you write out all seventeen numbers in a line so that every pair of numbers that are next to each other, adds up to give a square number? You can figure out the solution from first principles fai...
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Rmetrics financial engineering workshop
For those looking for an in-depth workshop on financial engineering with R, look no further than the R/Rmetrics Workshop and Summer School held annually in beautiful Meielisalp, Switzerland. This is an intimate workshop limited to around 50 participants, and features tutorials from leading practitioners in finance with R. This year's workshop ta...
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20 free R tutorials (and one reference card)
If you're just getting started with the R language, R user Pairach Piboonrungroj has published a handly list of 20 free R tutorials published by university departments. Included on the list: Getting Started with the R Data Analysis Package (by Norm Matloff), Getting Started with R (from York University), and An Introduction to R (by Phil Spec...
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Big Data statistics in the search for a cure for MS
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating and complex disease with an unknown cause — and for which there is currently no cure. The SUNY Buffalo is home to one of the leading multiple sclerosis (MS) research centers in the world, and as reported in Healthcare IT News, the research team is using IBM Netezza and Revolution R Enterprise to accel...
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R equivalents to SAS and SPSS procedures
With more than 5,000 R packages now available (from the CRAN and BioConductor repositories), for any statistical or data analysis procedure you can confidently say, “there's a package for that”. To make it easier for SAS and SPSS users to find what they need in R, Bob Muenchen has updated his useful table of equivalent R packages for SAS and ...
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Information Age: graduates driving industry adoption of R
Information Age recently published a feature article devoted to the R language, “Putting the R in analytics“. Says author Pete Swabey: Already popular in universities, there are signs that R is finding increasing adoption in the enterprise. This promises to lower the barriers of entry for advanced analytics, and may accelerate the mathemitis...
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