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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from September of particular interest to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/" target="_blank">R</a> users.</p>
<p>R code by Barry Rowlingson to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/curve-fitting.html" target="_blank">replicate an XKCD comic about curve fitting</a>.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/raytracer.html" target="_blank">The rayshader package creates 3-D relief maps in R</a> with perspective, shadows, and depth of field.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/index.html" target="_blank">The R Developer's Guide to Azure</a>, with links to documentation for Azure cloud services integrating R.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/earl-london-2018.html" target="_blank">A review of many commercial applications of R</a> presented at EARL London 2018.</p>
<p>Roundup of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science news from <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/ai-roundup-september-2018.html" target="_blank">September 2018</a>.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/not-hotdog-a-shiny-app-using-the-custom-vision-api.html" target="_blank">A Shiny app using the Custom Vision API</a> to identify pictures (or not) of hotdogs.</p>
<p>Two academic articles use survey techniques to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/mortality-in-puerto-rico.html" target="_blank">estimate casualties from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico</a>.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/notebooks-literate-programming.html" target="_blank">Yihui Xie describes the benefits of RMarkdown documents</a> in response to criticism of Jupyter Notebooks.</p>
<p>A video demonstrates the use of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/r-python-azure-hdinsight.html" target="_blank">R and Python in Azure HDinsight</a>. </p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/anonymous-nyt-op-ed.html" target="_blank">Similarity analyses in R used to identify candidate authors for an anonymous op-ed</a> in the New York Times.</p>
<p>A review of the book &quot;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/sql-server-2017-book-review.html" target="_blank">SQL Server 2017 Machine Learning Services with R</a>&quot;.</p>
<p>And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R):</p>
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<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/because-its-friday-fly-strong.html" target="_blank">Inspiring radio from a young pilot's eventful first solo flight</a>.</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/because-its-friday-hurricane-trackers.html" target="_blank">Various techniques used by media to project the track of Hurricane Florence</a>.</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/stars-in-motion.html" target="_blank">A 26-year timelapse of stars orbiting the galactic center</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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