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Benchmarking bigglm

By Joseph Rickert By Joseph RickertIn a recent blog post, David Smith…

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In case you missed it: October 2012 Roundup

In case you missed them, here are some articles from October of…

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How Nate Silver Won the Election with Data Science

While I'm pleased with the outcome of yesterday's election in political terms,…

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More Data Apps Spawned by Sandy

As the clean-up continues on the eastern seaboard, I wanted to follow…

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Tracking Hurricane Sandy with Open Data and R

Hurricane Sandy is shaping up to be a major, and very dangerous,…

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Two Talks on Data Science, Big Data and R

On Thursday next week (November 1), I'll be giving a new webinar…

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Data Says R Amongst Most Popular Languages

Data Scientist Drew Conway tackles the problem of deciding which programming languages…

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Style your R charts like the Economist, Tableau … or XKCD

As we noted last month, the new Themes feature in ggplot2 helps…

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Tips on Accessing Data from Various Sources with R

Jeffrey Breen (the man behind the Twitter airline sentiment analysis example) recently…

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Browse the In-development R Sources at GitHub

As an open-source project, the R source code has always been available…

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