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Belated Gift: Make a Valentine’s Heart with R

If you haven't sent your loved one a Valentine's Day greeting yet,…

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Visualizing Networks in R: Arc Diagrams and Hive Plots

Arc diagrams are an alternative way of representing two-dimensional graphs. Rather than…

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Votamatic Predicted the Presidential Election Results with R

While Nate Silver got a lot of the attention for correctly forecasting…

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A Strained Data Science Analogy

In the sponsored article Data Science: Buyer Beware at Forbes, SAP's Ray Rivera…

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The Four D’s of Programming’s Future: Data, Distributed, Device, Democratized

O'Reilly's Edd Dumbill observes that with the ubiquity of powerful computers now tied…

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Political Revolutions on Twitter, Visualized with R

Twitter has become a powerful medium for organizing and communicating with factions…

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Big Data Trees with Hadoop HDFS

Last month's release of Revolution R Enterprise 6.1 added the capability to…

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Real-Time Predictive Analytics with Big Data, and R

Can R be used for real-time applications? Absolutely! The key is in…

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Slides and Replay for “The Rise of Data Science”

I had a great time presenting my new webinar yesterday, thanks to…

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Upcoming Webinar: Real-time, Big-data Analytics

A quick heads-up that I'll be presenting another brand-new webinar on Thursday…

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