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Data Mining with R

Earlier this week, Revolution Analytics' Joe Rickert gave a webinar Introduction to…

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The Awe of Big Data

What's the connection between the 1972 Blue Marble photograph of the Earth,…

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Because It’s the Weekend: Andromeda, Ahoy!

It's been confirmed: the Andromeda Galaxy is heading right for us (well,…

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Data Science shows maturity at 2012 Summit.

As a discipline, Data Science is growing up fast. That's my key…

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Where’s Waldo? Image Analysis in R

R user Arthur Charpentier attempts to use the raster library and R…

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Because it’s Friday: Game theory

Game Theory is the mathematical study of how agents in a system…

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Mariano Rivera’s Baseball Prowess, Illustrated with R

Kevin Quealy, graphics editor at the New York Times, has published another fascinating…

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EU court’s SAS ruling conflicts with Oracle v Google.

In a blow to SAS's efforts to litigate competitor and low-cost SAS…

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Yes, you need more than just R for Big Data Analytics.

Douglas Merrill, former CIO/VP of Engineering at Google, writes in Forbes about using…

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Big Data Statistics in the Search for a Cure for MS

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating and complex disease with an unknown…

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