Publications by David Smith
In case you missed it: June 2013 Roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from June of particular interest to R users: You can create a Word document from a template and an R script with the R2DOCX package. Joe Rickert reviews books and other resources for learning about time series analysis in R. Timely Portfolio covers 15 years of history of time series plotting wit...
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Meet the Revolution Analytics UK team
Revolution Analytics has a new office in London to serve our customers in Europe. This press release introduces the team members who are based there: Neil Miller, Managing Director, International: Neil Miller is responsible for Revolution Analytics' business and growth outside the Americas and is based in the U.K. Neil Miller joined the company...
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X+1 uses Revolution R Enterprise for Marketing Optimization
In a recent article at Statistics View, Lillian Pierson describes how the X+1 Origin Digital Marketing Hub helps companies like JP Morgan Chase and Verizon optimize their marketing efforts. Back in 2011, X+1 saw the need to update their analytics platform to deal with increasing data sizes and to serve the increasingly sophisticated needs of thei...
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UseR! 2013 – Day 1 notes
Hadley Wickham presents at the useR! 2013 conference, July 10 2013 Today marked the first day of the 2103 useR! conference, a gathering of more than 350 R users from around the world. The conference has been quite a success so far, kicking off yesterday with a day of tutorials followed by a tapas-fueled welcome party in the center of Albecete. ...
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UseR! 2013: it’s a wrap!
Steve Scott (Google) presents at useR! 2013, July 12 2013 The 2013 UseR! conference has drawn to a close in Albacete, Spain. The conference organizers did a fantastic job putting together a jam-packed presentation and social program for the 350+ R users in attendance. Here are just a few of my highlights from the last couple of days: Duncan Murd...
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New Webinar this Wednesday: Using survival analysis for marketing attribution
This Wednesday at 11AM Eastern Time, Revolution Analytics UK Business Services Director Andrie DeVries will present a new webinar, Using Survival Analysis for Marketing Attribution. This webinar will focus on a new application of survival analysis (more traditionally used for life sciences application) to the domain of marketing: A central ques...
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Revolution Newsletter: July 2013
The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter came out a couple of weeks ago. In case you missed it, the news section is below, and you can read the full July edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. Let’s Be Quick About This!�...
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High Performing Predictive Analytics with R and Hadoop
I'm a bit late catching up on this, but Mario Inchosa (Revolution Analytics US Chief Scientist) gave a standing-room-only talk on high-performance predictive analytics in R and Hadoop at last month's Hadoop Summit. In the talk, he described some of the progress we've made integrating the ScaleR parallel external-memory algorithms into the Hadoop ...
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R spells for data wizards
Thomas Levine has put together a handy list of “data spells” for R: all of those cool, slightly hacky ways of getting things done with R that you might not come across in the standard documentation. Check out the link below for handy hints on importing data, handling lists and factor objects, using .Rprofile to configure your standard R envir...
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Real-Time Big Data Analytics: Emerging Architecture
O'Reilly Media has published a new whitepaper, Real-Time Big Data Analytics: Emerging Architecture. This 32-page document describes the processes and components necessary for getting on-demand information from big-data stores such as Hadoop. It answers the questions “How fast is fast?” and “How real is real-time?” and “how big is big?�...
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