[R-es] R helps win competitions

[Rubén Roa]

Disculpen amigos, pretendía poner este post en la lista general de R-help, no en la de Castellano.
De todas maneras, si les interesa ...

Rubén
____________________________________________________________________________________ 

Dr. Rubén Roa-Ureta
AZTI - Tecnalia / Marine Research Unit
Txatxarramendi Ugartea z/g
48395 Sukarrieta (Bizkaia)
SPAIN



> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: r-help-es-bounces en r-project.org 
> [mailto:r-help-es-bounces en r-project.org] En nombre de Rubén Roa
> Enviado el: miércoles, 23 de marzo de 2011 17:07
> Para: r-help-es en r-project.org
> Asunto: [R-es] R helps win competitions
> 
> 
> DeaR ComRades,
> 
> This is a quote from a News article in Science's 11-February 
> issue, about competitions to model data:
> 
> "For Chris Raimondi, a search-engine expert based in 
> Baltimore, Maryland, and winner of the HIV-treatment 
> competition, the Kaggle contest motivated him to hone his 
> skills in a newly learned computer language called R, which 
> he used to encode the winning data model. Raimondi also 
> enjoys the competitive aspect of Kaggle challenges: "It was 
> nice to be able to compare yourself with others; ... it 
> became kind of addictive. ... I spent more time on this than 
> I should."
> 
> If you are interested read the full article here:
> 
> http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6018/698.full
> 
> 
> Rubén
> 
> ______________________________________________________________
> ______________________ 
> 
> Dr. Rubén Roa-Ureta
> AZTI - Tecnalia / Marine Research Unit
> Txatxarramendi Ugartea z/g
> 48395 Sukarrieta (Bizkaia)
> SPAIN
> 
> _______________________________________________
> R-help-es mailing list
> R-help-es en r-project.org
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help-es
>