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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from July of particular interest to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/" target="_blank">R</a> users.</p>
<p>A program to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/07/cii-certification-for-r-packages.html" target="_blank">validate quality and security for R packages</a>: the Linux Foundation's CII Best Practices Badge Program.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/07/art-with-code.html" target="_blank">R scripts to generate images in the style of famous artworks</a>, like Mondrian's.</p>
<p>A 6-minute <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/07/a-quick-tour-of-ai-services-in-azure.html" target="_blank">video tour of the AI and Machine Learning services in Azure</a>, including R.</p>
<p>The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/07/ai-roundup-july-2018.html" target="_blank">July roundup</a> of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science news.</p>
<p>An <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/07/user-2017-hexwall.html" target="_blank">R package for tiling hexagon-shaped images</a>, used to create a striking banner of hex stickers for useR!2018.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/07/user-2018-recap.html" target="_blank">Highlights and links to videos from the useR!2018 conference</a>.</p>
<p>Video and R scripts from a <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/07/r-for-ai-video.html" target="_blank">workshop on creating an app to detect images of hotdogs</a>. </p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/07/msr-open-data.html" target="_blank">Microsoft has released a number of open data sets</a> produced from its research programs.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/07/r-351-update-now-available-.html" target="_blank">R 3.5.1 has been released</a>.</p>
<p>And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R):</p>
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<li>An <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/07/because-its-friday-urban-planning-fight.html" target="_blank">app to visualize the distribution of street orientations in cities</a></li>
<li>A <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/07/because-its-friday-language-and-thought.html" target="_blank">TED talk explores the link between spoken language and the way we think</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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