Since 2008, Microsoft (formerly Revolution Analytics) staff and guests have written about R at the Revolutions blog (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com) and every month I post a summary of articles from the previous month of particular interest to readers of r-help.
In case you missed them, here are some articles related to R from the month of December: Hadley Wickham's Shiny app for making eggnog: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year.html Using R to analyze the vocal range of pop singers: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/because-its-friday-deck-the-halls.html A tour of the data.table package from its creator, Matt Dowle: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/data-table-video.html The European R Users Meeting (eRum) will be held in Budapest, May 14-18: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/erum-2018.html Winners of the ASA Police Data Challenge student visualization contest: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/police-data-challenge.html An introduction to seplyr, a re-skinning of the dplyr package to a standard evaluation interface: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/introduction-to-seplyr.html How to run R (and the rest of the Linux ecosystem) in the Windows Subsystem for Linux: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/r-in-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux.html A chart of Bechdel scores, showing representation of women in movies over time: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/a-chart-of-bechdel-test-scores.html The British Ecological Society's Guide to Reproducible Science advocates the use of R and Rmarkdown: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/bes-reproducible-science.html Eight modules from the Microsoft AI School cover Microsoft R and SQL Server ML Services: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/ml-server-ai-path.html And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R): * Kate Crawford's keynote from NIPS 2017 on the issue of bias in artificial intelligence applications: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/the-trouble-with-bias-by-kate-crawford.html, a topic also covered in the Microsoft AI Blog http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/on-the-biases-in-data.html * The original Star Wars movie was a dud before it was rescued in editing: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/because-its-friday-editing-star-wars.html * I'm now a member of the Cloud Developer Advocates team at Microsoft: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/cloud-advocate.html * A Disney animator draws in 3-D with a virtual reality kit: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/because-its-friday-3-d-animation.html * A very, very wide web page visualizes the Solar System to scale: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/because-its-friday-1-pixel-moon.html As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to me at david...@microsoft.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid). Cheers, # David -- David M Smith <david...@microsoft.com> Developer Advocate, Microsoft Cloud & Enterprise Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
