David Smith is Vice President of Marketing and Community at Revolution Analytics. He has a long history with the R and statistics communities. After graduating with a degree in Statistics from the University of Adelaide, South Australia, he spent four years researching statistical methodology at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom, where he also developed a number of packages for the S-PLUS statistical modeling environment. He continued his association with S-PLUS at Insightful (now TIBCO Spotfire) overseeing the product management of S-PLUS and other statistical and data mining products.< David smith is the co-author (with Bill Venables) of the popular tutorial manual, An Introduction to R, and one of the originating developers of the ESS: Emacs Speaks Statistics project. Today, he leads marketing for REvolution R, supports R communities worldwide, and is responsible for the Revolutions blog. Prior to joining Revolution Analytics, he served as vice president of product management at Zynchros, Inc. Follow him on twitter at @RevoDavid
What surprises me about this video isn't that the quadrocopter doesn't get
zapped — the power of Faraday cages to divert electrical current is well
understood. What surprises me is that the radio controller manages to pilot
the drone amongst all that EM radiation caused by the Tesla coils (via
Gregory Piatetsky): That's all for this week — have a great weekend,
folks.
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The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news
section is below, and you can read the full April edition (with highlights
from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the
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Available: Revolution R Enterprise 6.2. Released today, this update further
enhances the performance, scalability and enterprise readiness of Revolution
R Enterprise. Key new features include fast data import from Teradata data
warehouses, big-data stepwise linear regression support, upgrades to the
RevoDeployR w... (more)
Creating visualizations of large data sets is a tough problem: with a limited
number of pixels available on the screen (or just with the limited visual
acuity of the human eye), massive numbers of symbols on the page can easily
result in an uninterpretable mess. On Friday we shared one way of tackling
the problem using Revolution R Enterprise: hexagonal binning charts.
Relatedly, RStudio's chief scientist Hadley Wickham is taking a comprehensive
approach to big-data visualization with his new open-source bigviz package,
currently available on GitHub. (Disclaimer: early developmen... (more)
The 14th annual KDnuggets poll measuring use of analytics software is open
for voting. The poll asks, "What Predictive Analytics, Big Data, Data mining,
Data Science software you used in the past 12 months for a real project?" and
allows up to 20 choices from commercial software, open source software, and
"big data" software. R was the leading choice in 2012, and currently leads
the pack in the voting for 2013. You can enter your vote now at the link
below. KDnuggets: New Poll: Predictive Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining,
Data Science Software Used
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by Joseph Rickert This past Saturday, the New Frontiers in Computing
Conference (NFIC 2013), held at Stanford University, explored the theme:
Social Network Analysis: It’s Who You Know. The speakers were a
well-chosen, eclectic lot who covered a remarkable array of issues in less
than a full day. Ian Hersey, former CTO of Attensity spoke on Lessons from
Large-Scale Social Analytics. Michael Wu, Chief scientist of Lithium
Technologies, provided an introduction to social network analysis and very
gamely conducted a live experiment building a social network of attendee
tweets duri... (more)
David Smith is Vice President of Marketing and Community at Revolution Analytics. He has a long history with the R and statistics communities. After graduating with a degree in Statistics from the University of Adelaide, South Australia, he spent four years researching statistical methodology at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom, where he also developed a number of packages for the S-PLUS statistical modeling environment. He continued his association with S-PLUS at Insightful (now TIBCO Spotfire) overseeing the product management of S-PLUS and other statistical and data mining products.< David smith is the co-author (with Bill Venables) of the popular tutorial manual, An Introduction to R, and one of the originating developers of the ESS: Emacs Speaks Statistics project. Today, he leads marketing for REvolution R, supports R communities worldwide, and is responsible for the Revolutions blog. Prior to joining Revolution Analytics, he served as vice president of product management at Zynchros, Inc. Follow him on twitter at @RevoDavid
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