The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full November edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. Now Available: Revolution R Enterprise 6.1 ... [Read more...]

Tomorrow at 9AM Pacific, Revolution Analytics VP of Product Development Sue Ranney will introduce two key Big Data features of the new Revolution R Enterprise 6.1. Now you can train classification and regression trees on data sets of unlimited size, quickly and using the resources of multiple processors and clusters. (This ... [Read more...]

By Joseph Rickert In a recent blog post, David Smith reported on a talk that Steve Yun and I gave at STRATA in NYC about building and benchmarking Poisson GLM models on various platforms. The results presented showed that the rxGlm function from Revolution Analytics’ RevoScaleR package running on a ... [Read more...]

We're pleased to announce that the latest update to Revolution R Enterprise is available today! Existing subscribers will soon receive an email with update instructions, and the free academic distribution will be updated later today. Version 6.1 adds a frequently-requested big-data statistical modeling algorithm, adds new connectivity option for Hadoop, improves ... [Read more...]

At the Strata conference in New York today, Steve Yun (Principal Predictive Modeler at Allstate's Research and Planning Center) described the various ways he tackled the problem of fitting a generalized linear model to 150M records of insurance data. He evaluated several approaches: Proc GENMOD in SAS Installing a Hadoop ... [Read more...]

On Thursday next week (November 1), I'll be giving a new webinar on the topic of Big Data, Data Science and R. Titled "The Rise of Data Science in the Age of Big Data Analytics: Why Data Distillation and Machine Learning Aren’t Enough", this is a provocative look at why ... [Read more...]

The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full September/October edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. New R Courses Announced: ... [Read more...]

This guest post is by Douglas McNair MD PhD, Engineering Fellow & President, Cerner Math Inc. -- ed. RevoScaleR scaling big-data modeling performance for real-time health data analysis at Cerner The size of data sets is increasing much more rapidly than the speed of cores, of RAM, and of disk drives. ... [Read more...]

A big thank-you to all the R users out there who voted for Revolution R Enterprise in DataWeek Awards. We're so pleased to be recognized by the voters and the DataWeek judging panel with the Top Innovator Award for Data Science Technology. We're looking forward to the awards ceremony next ... [Read more...]

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We're excited to announce the latest outpost of the Revolution Analytics team, with the opening of a new office in Singapore! This office will serve as the local HQ for Revolution Analytics serving our customers in the Asia-Pacific region. It was opened with the support of the support of the ... [Read more...]

Revolution Analytics is hosting several live and online courses over the next couple of months that will be of interest to R users looking to hone their skills: Visualization in R with ggplot2. Garrett Grolemund and Winston Chang instruct how to use the ggplot2 package to make, format, label and ... [Read more...]

Revolution Analytics is proud to once again be a gold sponsor and Wi-Fi sponsor of the JSM 2012 conference in San Diego, the largest gathering of statisticians, biostatisticians, analysts, data miners and data scientists in the world. The conference begins on Sunday, and you'll find the Revolution Analytics team in the ... [Read more...]

The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. 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. Quick Start Program for Hadoop: ... [Read more...]

R is an incredibly comprehensive statistics package. Even if you just look at the standard R distribution (the base and recommended packages), R can do pretty much everything you need for data manipulation, visualization, and statistical analysis. And for everything else, there's more than 5000 packages on CRAN and other repositories, ... [Read more...]

R''s glm function for generalized linear modeling is very powerful and flexible: it supports all of the standard model types (binomial/logistic, Gamma, Poisson, etc.) and in fact you can fit any distribution in the exponential family (with the family argument). But if you want to use it on a ... [Read more...]

In a poster (PDF) presented at the UseR 2012 conference, FDA biostatistician Jae Brodsky reiterated the FDA policy regarding software used to prepare submissions for drug approvals with clinical trials: Sponsors may use R in their submissions. The FDA does not endorse or require any particular software to be used for ... [Read more...]

CIO.com recently published its list of 9 open-source technologies to watch. Hadoop is first on the list, and second up is the R Project: R is an open source programming language and software environment designed for statistical computing and visualization. R was designed by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at ... [Read more...]

A quick heads-up that I'll be hosting a live webinar this Wednesday (June 20) with my colleage Sue Ranney on the new Revolution R Enterprise 6. If you've never taken a look at Revolution R Enterprise and want to know it's different from open-source R, or just want to learn about the ... [Read more...]

The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full June edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. Revolution R Enterprise 6 Now Available! ... [Read more...]