[R] Revolutions Blog: August 2013 roundup

[David Smith]

Revolution Analytics staff write about R every weekday at the Revolutions blog:
 http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com
and every month I post a summary of articles from the previous month
of particular interest to readers of r-help.

In case you missed them, here are some articles related to R from the
month of August:

A tutorial on parallel programming with the foreach, doMC and doSNOW
packages: http://bit.ly/16fmf8J

Joe Rickert reviews R's capabilities for linear algebra, sparse
matrices and big matrices: http://bit.ly/16fmgK3

How R is disrupting the insurance industry with big data: http://bit.ly/16fmgK1

Revolution Analytics has teamed with Cloudera to bring statistical
models into Hadoop clusters from R: http://bit.ly/16fmgK4

R graphics recognized in DataWeek's Top Innovator award for data
visualization: http://bit.ly/16fmgK2

Slides and replay for a new webinar on high-performance predictive
analytics in R and Hadoop: http://bit.ly/16fmf8I

A catalog of free, public big data sets you can use with R:
http://bit.ly/16fmgK5

Demand for employees with R skills continues to rise according to job
posting data: http://bit.ly/16fmgK7 . Demand for SAS skills, by
contrast, is declining: http://bit.ly/16fmf8K

A unique way of looking at (and listening to) the 2008 financial
crisis, using R to animate and sonify US Treasury data:
http://bit.ly/16fmgK6

The City of Chicago uses R-based semantic analysis of tweets to
identify outbreaks of food borne illness: http://bit.ly/16fmf8L

Discussions of R, drug development and the FDA from the JSM 2013
conference: http://bit.ly/16fmf8M

Statistics from Australian Rules Football games, visualized with R:
http://bit.ly/16fmf8N

Dr. Rob Hodges used R and NOAA climate sensor data to visualize the
strongest winds during the 2005 Katrina hurricane:
http://bit.ly/16fmh0k

Google has produced a series of introductory videos for beginners to
R: http://bit.ly/16fmh0l

Nate Silver's presentation at the JSM 2013 conference included 11
principles for journalists to make effective use of Statistics:
http://bit.ly/16fmf8O

Symphony Analytics uses Revolution R Enterprise to develop solutions
in healthcare, retails and telecommunications: http://bit.ly/16fmh0m

Rodolfo Vanzini used R and the ggmap package to select a new location
for his business: http://bit.ly/16fmh0n

Simon Urbanek showed at JSM "Nanocube" based visualization of billions
of tweets to explore smartphone market share across the USA:
http://bit.ly/16fmf8P

Joe Rickert responds to a recent AmstatNews editorial that portrays
mainstream academic statisticians as being left behind by the rise of
Big Data:
http://bit.ly/16fmf8Q

Some non-R stories in the past month included: a mathematician and an
engineer divide a restaurant bill (http://bit.ly/16fmf8S), an optical
illusion makes straight lines look like a rotating circles
(http://bit.ly/16fmf8R), misleading weight-loss photos
(http://bit.ly/16fmh0q), video of a beautiful eclipse in Australia
(http://bit.ly/16fmf8T) and an old-school visualization of 4000 years
of works history (http://bit.ly/16fmh0r).

Meeting times for local R user groups (http://bit.ly/eC5YQe) can be
found on the updated R Community Calendar at: http://bit.ly/bb3naW

If you're looking for more articles about R, you can find summaries
from previous months at http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/roundups/.
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Cheers,
# David

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