Category Archives: R

Posts about the open source R language

Knoxville R User’s Group Meeting November 1

Posted on October 22, 2013 by

The next meeting of the Knoxville R User’s Group will consist of four 20-minute talks followed by an open planning session. It will take place on Friday, November 1, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at The University of Tennessee, … Continue reading →

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What R Has Been Missing

Posted on October 17, 2013 by

While R has more methods than any other analytics software, it has been missing a crucial feature found in most other packages. SPSS Modeler had it first, way back when they still called it Clementine. Then SAS Institute realized how crucial … Continue reading →

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Learn R and/or Data Management from Home October 7-11

Posted on September 11, 2013 by

If you want to learn R, or improve your current R skills, join me for two workshops that I’m offering through Revolution Analytics in October. If you already know another analytics package, the workshop, Intro to R for SAS, SPSS … Continue reading →

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Trends in the Analytics Job Market

Posted on August 7, 2013 by

Tracking the job market for statistics, analytics, data mining and the like used to be a major undertaking. However, on November 10, 2011 the world’s largest web site for job postings, Indeed.com, released a tool that allows you to examine trends … Continue reading →

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Webinar: Managing Data with R

Posted on June 4, 2013 by

Before you can analyze data, it must be in the right form. Join Revolution Analytics and me this June 21st for a 4-hour webinar that shows how to perform the most commonly used data management tasks in R. We will work through … Continue reading →

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SAS Dominates Analytics Job Market; R up 42%

Posted on May 29, 2013 by

I’m continuing to gather and analyze data to update The Popularity of Data Analysis Software. In this installment I cover the latest employment figures. Employment is important to us all, so what software skills are employers seeking? A thorough answer … Continue reading →

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Forecast Update: Will 2014 be the Beginning of the End for SAS and SPSS?

Posted on May 14, 2013 by

I recently updated my plots of the data analysis tools used in academia in my ongoing article, The Popularity of Data Analysis Software. I repeat those here and update my previous forecast of data analysis software usage. Learning to use … Continue reading →

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SAS, SPSS, Stata Users: Learn R from Home June 17

Posted on May 8, 2013 by

Has learning R been driving you a bit crazy? If so, it may be that you’re “lost in translation.” On June 17 and 19, I’ll be teaching a webinar, R for SAS, SPSS and Stata Users. With each R concept, … Continue reading →

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Knoxville R Users Group Formed, Free Training Offered

Posted on April 8, 2013 by

R is popular free and open-source software for graphics and data analytics. The Knoxville R Users Group is being formed to help people learn R and improve their skills with it. Three departments of The University of Tennessee are working together … Continue reading →

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R Tackles Big Garbage

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

April 1, 2013 – Although the capabilities of the R system for data analytics have been expanding with impressive speed, it has heretofore been missing important fundamental methods. A new function works with the popular plyr package to provide these missing … Continue reading →

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