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by Joseph Rickert Here are a few things of some interest in the R world: The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has joined the R Consortium! This is a...Read more »

The Microsoft R Server Tiger Team assists customers around the world to implement large-scale analyytic solutions. Along the way, they discover useful tips and best practices, and share them...Read more »

Now that the Christmas break is just a distant memory (Marta would say that I am quite happy with that $-$ she...Read more »

The Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) was a concept developed 20 years ago now. I’ve read about it in various data mining and related books and...Read more »

It might happen that you will need a animated graph of any kind. For purposes of plotting demographic data and changes through the years, Google Maps and plotting maps,...Read more »

If you’re serious about learning, you probably need to read a book at some point. These days if you want to learn applied statistics and data science tools, you have...Read more »

The dplyr package by Hadley Wickham is a very useful package that provides “A Grammar of Data Manipulation”. It aims to simplify common data manipulation tasks, and provides “verbs”,...Read more »

By Fang Zhou, Microsoft Data Scientist; Hong Ooi, Microsoft Senior Data Scientist; and Graham Williams, Microsoft Director of Data Science Education is a relatively late adopter of predictive analytics...Read more »

A new version of the Discrete-Event Simulator for R was released a few days ago on CRAN. The most interesting new feature is the implementation of the subsetting operators...Read more »