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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from July of particular interest to <a target="_blank" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/">R</a> users. </p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/r-moves-up-to-5th-place-in-ieee-language-rankings.html">R moves up to 5th place</a> in the annual IEEE Spectrum programming language rankings.</p>
<p>A guide to <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/an-r-users-guide-to-jsm-2016.html">R-related presentations at the JSM 2016 conference</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/data-journalism-with-r-at-538.html">FiveThirtyEight uses R extensively for data journalism</a>, as explained in a presentation at useR!2016.</p>
<p>An in-depth look at <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/deployr-enterprise-security-model.html">DeployR's enterprise security model</a> when calling R functions via the web services API.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/microsoft-r-open-330-now-available.html">Microsoft R Open 3.3.0</a> is now available for Windows, Mac and PC.</p>
<p>A survey of quantitative business professionals<a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/burtch-survey.html"> ranks R as the most-used software</a>, followed by SAS and Python.</p>
<p>Microsoft is hosting its <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/microsoft-ds-summit.html">first Data Science Summit</a>: a conference for data scientists in Atlanta GA, September 26-27.</p>
<p>An interactive <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/an-analysis-of-pok%C3%A9mon-go-types-created-with-r.html">tree map of Pokemon Go types</a>, created with R.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/energy-load-shaping.html">Using R to manage energy usage</a> on the Microsoft campus.</p>
<p>The fact that NA^0 equals 1 reveals some <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/understanding-na-in-r.html">insights about missing values in R</a>. </p>
<p>Two presentations by me, recorded at useR!2016: <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/r-at-microsoft-user-2016.html">How Microsoft uses data science to improve the lives of people with disabilities</a>, and how R is integrated into Microsoft products.</p>
<p>A <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/some-new-r-packages.html">review of some recently-released R packages</a>, by Joe Rickert.</p>
<p>How to <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/sql-server-power-bi-and-r.html">create a Power BI dashboard based on SQL Server and R</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/microsoft-r-client.html">Microsoft R Client</a> is a desktop-based version of Microsoft R Server, includes the big-data ScaleR package, and free to download and use.</p>
<p>Resources (code and slides) from the <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/user-2016-tutorials-part-2-.html">tutorials presented at the useR!2016 conference</a>.</p>
<p>Rick Becker presents the <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/rick-becker-s-talk.html">birth of the S language at Bell Labs</a>.</p>
<p>Using <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/dplyrxdf-flight-arrival-delays.html">Microsoft R Server within the Data Science Virtual Machine</a> to graph airline delays from 14Gb of flight records. </p>
<p>A <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/06/data-science-for-beginners.html">beginner's introduction to data science</a>, in five short videos.</p>
<p>General interest stories (not related to R) in the past month included: <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/because-its-friday-bad-maps.html">bad maps</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/because-its-friday-bird-migration.html">bird migration</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/because-its-friday-b373-a320.html">how to tell a B737 from an A320</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/fake-animal-facts.html">animal 'facts'</a>, and <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/because-its-friday-animal-intelligence-animal-fairness.html">animals and fairness</a>.</p>
<p>As always, thanks for the comments and please send any suggestions to me at <a target="_blank" href="mailto:davidsmi@microsoft.com">davidsmi@microsoft.com</a>. Don't forget you can follow the blog using an RSS reader, via <a target="_blank" href="http://blogtrottr.com/">email using blogtrottr</a>, or by following me on Twitter (I'm <a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/revodavid">@revodavid</a>). You can find roundups of previous months <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/roundups/">here</a>.</p>
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