Publications by Joseph Rickert
Introduction to Revolution R Enterprise For Big Data Analytics on datacamp.com
by Jeremy ReynoldsSenior R Trainer, Revolution Analytics Last week, Revolution Analytics released its first massive open, online course through a partnership with datacamp.com: Introduction to Revolution R Enterprise for Big Data Analytics. You can sign up for the free course here. This course provides a look at some of the tools provided by the...
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Partying R Style with Sqor Sports, R on Azure, and data.table
by Joseph Rickert We usually have a pretty good time at the monthly Bay Area useR Group (BARUG) meetings, but this month's meeting was a bit more of a party than usual. The very well connected PR team at Sqor Sports, our host company for the evening, secured San Francisco's tres trendy 111 Minna Gallery for the venue. There was a full bar, hous...
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What’s the most popular German car where you live?
by Tim WinkePhD student in Demography and Social Sciences in Berlin This post has been abstracted from Tim's entry to a contest that Dalia Research is running based on a global smarthpone survey that they are conducting. Tim's entry post is available as is all of the code behind it. – editor When people think about Germany, what comes to their...
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Some R Highlights from H20 World
by Joseph Rickert H2O.ai held its first H2O World conference over two days at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Although the main purpose of the conference was to promote the company's rich set of Java based machne learning algorithms and announce their new products Flow and Play there were quite a few sessions devoted to R and st...
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Some R User Group Highlights for November 2014
by Joseph Rickert November was an active and creative month for R user groups with over 50 events listed on the Revolution Analytics' Community Calendar. Here are some highlights that can be found by visiting the websites of a few of the groups that post and share presentations. James Thomson was one of the presenters at the November 25th London...
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Quandl Chapter 2: The Democratization of Commercial Data
by Tammer KamelQuandl's Founder About 22 months ago I had the privilege of introducing Quandl to the world on this blog. At that time Quandl had about 2 million datasets and a few hundred users. (And we thought that was fabulous.) Now, at the end of 2014, we have some 12 million datasets on the site and tens of thousands of registered users. On m...
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New ASA Guidelines for Undergraduate Statistics Programs
by Joseph Rickert The American Statistical Association (ASA) Undergraduate Guidelines Workgroup recently published the report Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Programs in Statistical Science. Although intended for educators setting up or revamping Stats programs at colleges and universities, this concise, 17 page document should be good r...
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Interactive 2D & 3D Plots with Plotly and ggplot2
by Matt Sundquistco-founder of Plotly R, Plotly, and ggplot2 let you make, share, and collaborate on beautiful, interactive plots online. Let's see what we can do with the topographic data from Auckland's Maunga Whau Volcano that comes with R. Copy and paste this R code to make your first plot. The basic idea is: use ggplot2 code, add py$ggplot...
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Revolution Analytics’ 2015 R User Group Support Program is underway!
by Joseph Rickert Revolution Analytics's 2015 R User Group Support Program (RevoRUGS) begins today. Last year we provided financial support to 51 groups worldwide. That works out to be about one third of the total number of R active user groups listed in our Local User Group Directory. R User Groups Supported by Revolution Analytics in 2014 (Dow...
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The 6th Spanish R Users Conference
by Emilio L. Cano The VI Spanish R Users Conference took place on October 23 and 24 in Santiago de Compostela (Spain). It was a two-day event with a variety of talks and workshops about the R statistical software and programming language and its applications. First of all, let me thank all the local organizers, the melisa[1] association and the...
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