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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from October of particular interest to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/" target="_blank">R</a> users.</p>
<p>Peter Provost ports some <a rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/gravedigger-in-r.html" target="_blank">80's-era BASIC programs for kids to R</a>.</p>
<p>In a <a rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/fringe-fm-podcast.html" target="_blank">podcast for Fringe FM</a>, I discuss the ethics of AI, Microsoft and Open Source, and the R Community.</p>
<p>Roundup of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science news from <a rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/ai-roundup-oct-2018.html" target="_blank">October 2018</a>.</p>
<p>In this episode of &quot;Guy in a Cube&quot;, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/anscombes-quartet.html" target="_blank">R is used to visualize Anscombe's Quartet</a> via Power BI.</p>
<p>Di Cook suggests <a rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/human-vs-computer.html" target="_blank">using computer vision to automate statistical model assessment for machine learning</a> in the 2018 Belz Lecture.</p>
<p>R provides the analysis behind a <a rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/bridge-safety-in-r.html" target="_blank">front-page story on bridge safety</a> in the Baltimore Sun.</p>
<p>Tomas Kalibera describes the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/index.html" target="_blank">big impacts of a small tweak to the logical comparison operators in R</a>.</p>
<p>The Economist is now <a rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/big-mac-index.html" target="_blank">using R to calculate its famous &quot;Big Mac Index&quot;</a>.</p>
<p>Behind-the-scenes details of <a rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/how-r-gets-built-on-windows.html" target="_blank">how R gets built on Windows</a>, from a presentation by Jeroen Ooms.</p>
<p>The R Consortium has accepted another round of <a rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/r-consortium-grant-applications-due-october-31.html" target="_blank">grant applications for R community projects</a>.</p>
<p>A list of <a rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/a-few-upcoming-r-conferences.html" target="_blank">upcoming R conferences</a>.</p>
<p>A recap of <a rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/ignite-ai-announcements.html" target="_blank">AI, Machine Learning and Data Science announcements</a> from the Microsoft Ignite conference.</p>
<p>And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R):</p>
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<li>A lesson on diversity: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/because-its-friday-parable-of-the-polygons.html" target="_blank">the Parable of the Polygons</a></li>
<li>The story behind <a rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/because-its-friday-hey-its-enrico-palazzo.html" target="_blank">the baseball scene in The Naked Gun</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/10/because-its-friday-if-ikea-did-algorithms.html" target="_blank">Public Key Cryptography</a>, as explained by IKEA</li>
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