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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from June of particular interest to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/" target="_blank">R</a> users.</p>
<p>An <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/global-migration-animated-with-r.html" target="_blank">animated visualization of global migration</a>, created in R by Guy Abel.</p>
<p>My take on the question, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/python-or-r.html" target="_blank">Should you learn R or Python for data science</a>?</p>
<p>The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/ft-bbc-uses-r.html" target="_blank">BBC and Financial Times use R</a> — without post-processing — for publication graphics.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/handling-strings-with-r.html" target="_blank">&quot;Handling Strings in R&quot;</a>, a free e-book by Gaston Sanchez, has been updated.</p>
<p>The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/ai-roundup-june-2018.html" target="_blank">AI, Machine Learning and Data Science roundup for June 2018</a>.</p>
<p>The PYPL Popularity of Languages Index ranks <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/pypl-programming-language-trends.html" target="_blank">R as the 7th most popular programming language</a>.</p>
<p>The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/lime-package.html" target="_blank">&quot;lime&quot; package for R</a> provides tools for interpreting machine learning models.</p>
<p>An R vignette by Paige Bailey on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/understanding-bias.html" target="_blank">detecting unconscious bias in predictive models</a>.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/microsoft-r-open-350-now-available.html" target="_blank">Microsoft R Open 3.5.0 has been released</a> (with a subsequent <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/hotfix-for-mro-350-on-linux.html" target="_blank">fix for Debian systems</a>).</p>
<p>Slides from the webinar, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/whats-new-in-azure-for-machine-learning-and-ai.html" target="_blank">What's New in Azure for Machine Learning and AI</a>.</p>
<p>And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R):</p>
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<li>The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/because-its-friday-wavy-lines.html" target="_blank">Curvature Blindness Illusion</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/because-its-friday-the-lioness-sleeps-tonight.html" target="_blank">Lioness v Wrestlers</a> in tug-of-war</li>
<li>A comedian imagines an <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/because-its-friday-olive-garden.html" target="_blank">AI writing a TV commercial</a></li>
<li>A <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/because-its-friday-sealese.html" target="_blank">fur seal, transcribed</a></li>
<li>An <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/because-its-friday-buildings-shake.html" target="_blank">architecture error and a near-disaster in NYC</a></li>
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<p>As always, thanks for the comments and please send any suggestions to me at <a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:davidsmi@microsoft.com" target="_blank">davidsmi@microsoft.com</a>. Don't forget you can follow the blog using an RSS reader, via <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blogtrottr.com/" target="_blank">email using blogtrottr</a>, or by following me on Twitter (I'm <a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/revodavid" target="_blank">@revodavid</a>). You can find roundups of previous months <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/roundups/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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