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One of the most important constituencies in the development of advanced cognitive computing applications these days is the data scientists trying to combine massive amounts of data and various types ...

We're at the beginning of a new wave of numeric data -- and the new R language provides a powerful array of tools to make sense of it all We tend to think of programming languages as general purpose, ...

This story contains interviews with David Smith, chief community officer at Revolution Analytics; Casey Herron, data scientist at Revolution Analytics; Tess Nesbitt, director of analytics at DataSong; ...

The R programming language is quickly gaining popular ground against the traditional statistics packages such as SPSS, SAS and MATLAB, at least according to one data statistician who teaches the ...

The R programming language is an important tool for development in the numeric analysis and machine learning spaces. With machines becoming more important as data generators, the popularity of the ...

Microsoft has reached an agreement to acquire Revolution Analytics, the leading commercial provider of software and services for R, the world’s most widely used programming language for statistical ...

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