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3-D Animation of the Changing Antarctic Ice Sheet

Last month we shared an visualization showing the changing extent of Arctic…

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Using R in Production: Industry Experts Share Their Experiences

I had a great time yesterday moderating the "R in Action" panel…

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Population health management with RevoScaleR

This guest post is by Douglas McNair MD PhD, Engineering Fellow & President,…

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Three Ways of Visualizing the Growth of Walmart

It's a wonderful thing when people make interesting data sets available to…

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Because It’s the Weekend: We’re NASA and We Know It [VIDEO]

The successful landing of the Curiosity Rover on Mars last weekend was…

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Cheat Sheet for Prediction and Classification Models in R

Ricky Ho has created a reference a 6-page PDF reference card on…

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An Analysis of the R-help Mailing List

Even though forums and question-and-answer services like StackOverflow are emerging as the…

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Surveys Continue to Rank R #1 for Data Mining

KDnuggets recently posted its annual poll on data mining software, and the…

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The Environmental Performance Index, Visualized with R

The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks countries on performance indicators for environmental…

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A Prediction for the Olympic Men’s 100m Sprint

R user Markus Gesmann used the gold-winning times from the Olympic Men's 100m…

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