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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from January of particular interest to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/" target="_blank">R</a> users.</p>
<p>Josh Katz and Peter Aldhous used R to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/01/trump-sotu.html" target="_blank">analyze the content and presentation of the most recent State of the Union speech</a> from the US president.</p>
<p>Slides for my presentation <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/01/r-parallel-cloud.html" target="_blank">&quot;Speeding up R with Parallel Processing in the Cloud&quot;</a>, with applications of the doAzureParallel and sparklyr packages.</p>
<p>An example of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/01/doazureparallel-simulations.html" target="_blank">using the doAzureParallel package to speed up a statistical simulation</a>.</p>
<p>5 lines of R code to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/01/scraping-with-5-lines-r.html" target="_blank">create a list of US Representatives from a Wikipedia table</a>.</p>
<p>A package to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/01/strava-visualization.html" target="_blank">visualize routes from activities recorded with the Strava app</a>.</p>
<p>The call for papers and registration is <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/01/user2018-reg-open.html" target="_blank">now open for useR!2018 in Brisbane</a>.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/01/microsoft-r-open-343-now-available.html" target="_blank">Microsoft R Open 3.4.3</a> is now available.</p>
<p>A simple command-line tool to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/01/azure-sparklyr-aztk.html" target="_blank">launch a cluster in Azure for use with sparklyr</a>.</p>
<p>A review of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/01/r-cloud-tools.html" target="_blank">cloud-based tools for building intelligent applications with R</a>.</p>
<p>A guide to implementing <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/01/neural-networks-r6.html" target="_blank">deep neural networks from scratch in R</a>.</p>
<p>R <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/01/tiobe-2017.html" target="_blank">leaps to its highest position</a> — 8th — in the TIOBE language rankings.</p>
<p>A <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/01/a-field-guide-to-the-r-ecosystem.html" target="_blank">field guide to the ecosystem surrounding R</a>.</p>
<p>Using the Rcpp package to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/01/parallelize-rcpp.html" target="_blank">parallelize an association rules problem</a>.</p>
<p>Various R tricks used at Etsy to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/01/r-faster-case-study.html" target="_blank">speed up an A/B testing system</a>.</p>
<p>Some useful advice from Jenny Bryan on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/01/bryan-workflow.html" target="_blank">setting up a reproducible R workflow</a>.</p>
<p>And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R):</p>
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<li>A Japanese artist <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/01/because-its-friday-excel-painter.html" target="_blank">makes &quot;paintings&quot; with Excel</a></li>
<li>A presentation on why companies' stated <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/01/because-its-friday-principles-and-values.html" target="_blank">principles and values actually matter</a></li>
<li>Some impressive <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/01/kite-ballet.html" target="_blank">formation acrobatics with kites</a></li>
<li>A <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/01/because-its-friday-harry-potter-was-the-time-to-come.html" target="_blank">new Harry Potter chapter</a>, written with a predictive text algorithm</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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