Publications by David Smith
How to make your own 3-D sculpture with R
We've mentioned before how you can use R to design 3-D objects. Now, thanks to the latest version of the rgl package, you can produce real-world 3-D objects with R as well. The rgl package has long made it possible to create virtual 3-D objects in R, and export them as animations like this: But now, package author Duncan Murdoch has added the ab...
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R/Finance 2013: May 17-18 in Chicago
This year's R/Finance conference on applied finance with R is scheduled for May 17-18 in Chicago, and promises once again to be the go-to conference for anyone using R in the finance industry. The keynote speakers have been announced, and it's a great lineup: Sanjiv Das, Professor of Finance and Chair of Finance Dept, Santa Clara University’s...
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Elements of Statistical Learning: free book download
The go-to bible for this data scientist and many others is The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman. Each of the authors is an expert in machine learning / prediction, and in some cases invented the techniques we turn to today to make sense of big data:...
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Webinar Jan 24: Using R with Hadoop
In two weeks (on January 24), Think Big Analytics' Jeffrey Breen will present a new webinar on using R with Hadoop. Here's the webinar description: R and Hadoop are changing the way organizations manage and utilize big data. Think Big Analytics and Revolution Analytics are helping clients plan, build, test and implement innovative solutions bas...
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The four D’s of programming’s future: data, distributed, device, democratized
O'Reilly's Edd Dumbill observes that with the ubiquity of powerful computers now tied into all levels our daily lives, programming is getting dangerous: today's programmers are “like ambitious waiters stacking one teacup on top of the other”. His prescription? All programmers will have to adopt programming paradigms that have previously bee...
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Mathematica adds R connectivity
Wolfram's Mathematica is the lastest software to add a connection to R, joining a long list of applications providing R access to their users. Mathematica 9 will use a Java-based link allow users to exchange data between Mathematica and R and to execute R code from within Mathematica. (via Ajay Ohri) Related To leave a comment for the author, p...
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More new R user groups
It's been a little while since we've rounded up the new local R user groups around the world, so here are the latest ones on the scene: Edmonton, Canada: The Edmonton R User Group is the first in the Canadian province of Alberta and the most northerly group in North America. It started up back in October last year and has already held four meeti...
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Examples combining C++ and R: The Rcpp Gallery
We've written before about how you can use the Rcpp package to speed up R, by converting performance-critical snippets of R code to C++. (Rcpp makes it easy — you don't even have to be a C++ expert.) If you haven't tried it out yet, you might want to browse the Rcpp Gallery: an collection of simple but illustrative examples showing many ways th...
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Podcast: Revolution Analytics, R and the changing technology landscape
In a recent interview with DataInformed's Ian Murphy, I discussed the history of the open-source R project and how Revolution Analytics is building on R to compete with legacy statistical software such as SAS and SPSS. Other topics we touched on during the 20-minute discussion included: R's growth in academia, the impact of cloud computing on ana...
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In case you missed it: December 2012 Roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from December of particular interest to R users. The blog is.R ran an excellent series of R tips and applications in December, with posts including working with Stata files, working with graphs and networks, and text analysis. Kohske Takahashi provides R scripts to create a collection of optical i...
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