Revolution Newsletter: July 2013
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The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter came out a couple of weeks ago. In case you missed it, the news section is below, and you can read the full July edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email.
Let’s Be Quick About This! Quick Start Programs: We’ve got three great ways for you and your team to get started with Revolution R Enterprise quickly and successfully – The Quick Start Programs! Click on the program names to find out the details for each and then use the contact us link to let us know you are ready to go!
- Quick Start Revolution R Enterprise + Hadoop
- Quick Start Open Source R to Revolution R Enterprise
- Quick Start SAS to Revolution R Enterprise
July’s Webinar: Using Survival Analysis for Marketing Attribution (July 17th, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT). Survival analysis is widely used in the modeling of living organisms and time to failure of components, but Chandler-Pepelnjak (2010) proposed to use survival analysis for marketing attribution analysis. Join our webinar to learn more about this theory and a big data case study, showing how DataSong usesRevolution Analytics to process 50 million survival models each day.
We had a great time at Hadoop Summit in San Jose, CA. Several customers, prospects, and partners sought us out in our booth to talk about their upcoming projects and how they could implement an environment utilizing both Hadoop and Revolution R Enterprise. The record attendance was engaging and enthusiastic with more than 150 participants attending Mario Inchiosa’s presentation on High Performing Predictive Analytics with R and Hadoop. If you missed his talk, you can see his presentation slide deck on SlideShare.
Revolution R Enterprise has been nominated as a Top Innovator under three categories: Big Data Technologies, Data Science Technologies and Data Visualization Technologies for the 2013 Dataweek Awards. Voting is now open. Registration only takes about 1 minute, so please take a moment to create an account and cast your vote. You can vote directly for Revolution R Enterprise by clicking the “Add Endorsement” button from theRevolution R Enterprise page.
New Case Study Available: American Century Investments builds and deploys a comprehensive equities trading research and production platform on Revolution R Enterprise.See how and why they did it in this 6-minute video.
ICYMI: Gaming Analytics Webinar Replay is available! Big Data and statistical modeling is changing how video games are made and sold. Data analytics are helping to identify bottlenecks for new players, detect fraud, and maximize in-app purchases. Learn how in this recorded webinar presentation by industry expert Bill Grosso.
Revolution Analytics in the News
- Our customer American Century Investments was featured in SCS magazine in Singapore.
- Our partner, Mu Sigma, tells the world about new in-Hadoop algorithms built with components from our open source RHadoop project.
AcademyR – Training and Education
Do you have new people on the team? Would you like to refresh your knowledge and pick up the latest tips, tricks and best practices for R programming? Then you should check out our Revolution Analytics Core Curriculum. Contact us today to set your team up with an onsite or online course package.
- Introduction to R
- Data Visualization in R
- Big Data Analytics with Revolution R Enterprise
- Big Data Predictive Modeling with Revolution R Enterprise
New Fall Course Schedule is Now Available! Learn how to better manage your data, how to build Big Data analytic models and much more! Check out our dates and times and register soon to take advantage of our earlybird discount.
Featured Archive Video: The Rise of Data Science in the Age of Big Data Analytics
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