DavidMSmith

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Fantasy Football Modeling with R

Boris Chen, a data scientist for the New York Times, has been…

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An Interactive Tool to Explain Simpson’s Paradox

As just about every statistics student can attest, Simpson's Paradox — a…

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Big Data Bytes: How Open Source is Changing Business

I had a fun time on Friday in a Google Hangout chat…

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Putting the R in Cloudera and Hortonworks Hadoop

Datanami interviews Revolution Analytics' Bill Jacobs about the upcoming Revolution R Enterprise…

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Alpha Testing RevoScaleR Running in Hadoop

At Revolution Analytics our mission is to establish R as the driver…

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Results of Survey of Statisticians

During the 2013 JSM (Joint Statistics Meetings) Conference in Montreal, Revolution Analytics…

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R User Groups Update

R user groups continue to thrive worldwide. The map below plots the…

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Poll: R Is the Top Language for Data Science 3 Years Running

KDDNuggets has completed its annual poll of top languages for analytics, data…

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Big Data Sets You Can Use with R

The world may indeed be awash with data, however, it is not…

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Visualizing Katrina’s Strongest Winds with R

Here's a new picture of the devastation wrought by Katrina in 2005.…

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