Category Archives: R

Posts about the open source R language

The RSelenium R Package (Free Webinar)

Posted on May 6, 2014 by

The Orange County R User Group (OC-RUG) will soon host a free webinar on the new “RSelenium” R Package which provides a set of R bindings for the Selenium 2.0 webdriver using the JsonWireProtocol. Using RSelenium, you can automate web … Continue reading →

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JMBayes R package (webinar)

Posted on April 8, 2014 by

A free webinar will provide an introduction to the “JMBayes” R package which provides methods for Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data under a Bayesian Approach. Webinar Format: – Introduction to Joint Models and the JMBayes R package – … Continue reading →

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R Continues Its Rapid Growth

Posted on April 7, 2014 by

I’ve just updated the section below from The Popularity of Data Analysis Software. Note that the overall article is still under construction and all the figure numbers have changed from previous versions. Growth in Capability The capability of analytics software … Continue reading →

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Learn to Manage Data at useR! 2014 or Online April 25

Posted on March 18, 2014 by

Before you can analyze data, it must be in the right form. Join me on April 25th for a 4-hour webinar that shows how to perform the most commonly used data management tasks in R. We will work through hands-on examples of … Continue reading →

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SAS, SPSS, Stata Users: Learn R from Home April 21

Posted on March 11, 2014 by

Has learning R been driving you a bit crazy? If so, it may be that you’re “lost in translation.” On April 21 and 23, I’ll be teaching a webinar, R for SAS, SPSS and Stata Users. With each R concept, … Continue reading →

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Analytics Software Popularity Update: Counting Blogs, Simplifying Job Searches

Posted on March 6, 2014 by

My latest update to The Popularity of Data Analysis Software is an attempt to use blog counts to estimate the popularity of analytics software. While I was able to greatly broaden the coverage of packages when studying job data, I … Continue reading →

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Job Trends in the Analytics Market: New, Improved, now Fortified with C, Java, MATLAB, Python, Julia and Many More!

Posted on February 25, 2014 by

I’m expanding the coverage of my article, The Popularity of Data Analysis Software. This is the first installment, which includes a new opening and a greatly expanded analysis of the analytics job market. Here it is, from the abstract onward … Continue reading →

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Learn R and/or Data Management from Home January or April

Posted on December 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 January and April. If you already know another analytics package, the workshop, Intro to R for … Continue reading →

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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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