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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from May of particular interest to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/" target="_blank">R</a> users.</p>
<p>Many interesting <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/watch-rfinance-2017.html" target="_blank">presentations recorded at the R/Finance 2017 conference</a> in Chicago are now available to watch.</p>
<p>A review of some of the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/runconf17.html" target="_blank">R packages and projects implemented at the 2017 ROpenSci Unconference</a>.</p>
<p>An example of applying <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/who-is-the-caretaker.html" target="_blank">Bayesian Learning with the &quot;bnlearn&quot; package</a> to challenge stereotypical assumptions</p>
<p>Data from the Billboard Hot 100 chart used to find the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/love-is-all-around.html" target="_blank">most popular words in the titles of pop hits</a>.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/microsoft-r-open-340-now-available.html" target="_blank">Microsoft R Open 3.4.0</a> is now available for Windows, Mac and Linux.</p>
<p>How to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/tweenr.html" target="_blank">use the &quot;tweenr&quot; package to create smooth transitions</a> in data animations. </p>
<p>A preview of some of the companies and R applications to be presented at the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/preview-of-earl-san-francisco.html" target="_blank">EARL conference in San Francisco</a>.</p>
<p>The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/azuredsvm-a-new-r-package-for-elastic-use-of-the-azure-data-science-virtual-machine.html" target="_blank">AzureDSVM package</a> makes it easy to spawn and manage clusters of the Azure Data Science Virtual Machine.</p>
<p>An online <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/cdrc-spatial-course.html" target="_blank">course on spatial data analysis in R</a>, from the Consumer Data Research Centre in the UK.</p>
<p>Video and slides of Lixun Zhang's presentation &quot;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/r-in-financial-services-presentation.html" target="_blank">R in Financial Services: Challenges and Opportunity</a>&quot; from the New York R Conference.</p>
<p>Visual Studio 2017 now features built-in support for both <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/r-and-python-support-now-built-in-to-visual-studio-2017.html" target="_blank">R and Python development</a>.</p>
<p>Quantifying the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/analyzing-the-home-advantage-in-english-soccer-with-r.html" target="_blank">home-field advantage in English Premier League football</a>.</p>
<p>Using the new <code>CRAN_package_db</code> function to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/analyzing-data-on-cran-packages.html" target="_blank">analyze data about CRAN packages</a>.</p>
<p>Stack Overflow Trends tracks the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/stack-overflow-trends.html" target="_blank">trajectory of questions about R and Python</a>.</p>
<p>A recorded webinar on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/hospital-length-of-stay.html" target="_blank">using Microsoft R to predict length of stay in hospitals</a>.</p>
<p>The new <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/real-time-scoring-with-mrs-91.html" target="_blank">&quot;Real-Time Scoring&quot; capability in Microsoft R Server</a> creates a service to generate predictions from certain models in milliseconds.</p>
<p>&quot;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/technical-foundations-of-informatics.html" target="_blank">Technical Foundations of Informatics</a>&quot; is an open course guide on data analysis and visualization with R with a modern slant.</p>
<p>The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/the-datasaurus-dozen.html" target="_blank">Datasaurus Dozen</a> generalizes Anscombe's Quartet with a process to create datasets of any shape with (nearly) the same summary statistics.</p>
<p>CareerCast ranks <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/best-job-i2017-statistican.html" target="_blank">Statistician as the best job to have in 2017</a>.</p>
<p>You can now <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/using-microsoft-r-with-alteryx.html" target="_blank">use Microsoft R within Alteryx Designer</a>.</p>
<p>How to clean messy data in Excel by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/clean-messy-data-by-providing-examples-in-excel.html" target="_blank">providing just a few examples of transformations</a>.</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/2017/05/because-its-friday-history-of-australia.html" target="_blank">The history of Australia's states</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/the-history-of-the-universe-in-20-minutes.html" target="_blank">An amusingly animated history of the Universe</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/because-its-friday-video-projection.html" target="_blank">A Neural Network predicts a movie from just one frame</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/becasue-its-friday-bayesian-trap.html" target="_blank">The Bayesian Trap, explained</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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