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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from August of particular interest to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/" target="_blank">R</a> users.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/text-featurization-microsoftml.html" target="_blank">Using the featurizeText function in the MicrosoftML package</a> to extract ngrams from unstructured text.</p>
<p>A joyplot <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/probably-more-probably-than-probable.html" target="_blank">visualizes the probabilities associated with phrases</a> like &quot;highly likely&quot; and &quot;little chance&quot; by a sample of 46 Redditors.</p>
<p>Two <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/3-d-animations-with-r.html" target="_blank">examples of creating 3-D animations in R</a>: a stereo cube, and the Charleston in motion capture data.</p>
<p>A <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/maps-in-r.html" target="_blank">tutorial on creating thematic maps in R</a>, from ComputerWorld. </p>
<p>Some tips on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/query-editor-tips.html" target="_blank">using R to query data in Power BI</a>.</p>
<p>Using the Rcpp package to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/kmeans-r-rcpp.html" target="_blank">calculate a membership matrix for fuzzy k-means clustering</a>.</p>
<p>A <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/recreating-minard.html" target="_blank">reimagining of Minard's chart</a> of Napoleon's march on Russia.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/gender-roles-in-film-direction.html" target="_blank">Rankings of gender roles for men and women in film</a>, from an analysis of scripts with the tidytext package.</p>
<p>Several talks at the upcoming <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/data-track-ignite.html" target="_blank">Ignite conference feature R</a>.</p>
<p>Norm Matloff's keynote at UseR!2017 discussed various <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/obstacles-to-performance-in-parallel-programming.html" target="_blank">obstacles to performance in parallel programming</a>.</p>
<p>Peter Dalgaard marks the 20th anniversary of the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/20-years-of-the-r-core-group.html" target="_blank">formation of the R Core Group</a>.</p>
<p>Using the <code>rxFeaturize</code> function in the MicrosoftML package to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/image-featurizer.html" target="_blank">find images similar to a reference image</a>.</p>
<p>Buzzfeed used R to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/buzzfeed-plane-tracking.html" target="_blank">identify possible spy planes in Flightradar24 data</a>.</p>
<p>Timo Grossenbacher offers a helpful <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/reproducibility-a-cautionary-tale.html" target="_blank">workflow for implementing reproducible data analysis in R</a>.</p>
<p>A <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/dplyrxdf-0100-beta-prerelease.html" target="_blank">preview of version 0.10.0 of the dplyrXdf package</a>, featuring support for the tidyeval framework on out-of-memory Xdf data files.</p>
<p>A tutorial on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/keras-and-cntk.html" target="_blank">using CNTK via the keras package for forecasting</a>. </p>
<p>Neils Berglund explains how to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/tutorial-sqlrutils.html" target="_blank">use the sqlrutils package to publish an R function as a SQL Server stored procedure</a>.</p>
<p>Tomas Kalibera's presentation at UseR!2017 includes useful <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/take-advantage-compiler.html" target="_blank">guidance on getting the most out of R's byte compiler</a>.</p>
<p>The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/kandinsky.html" target="_blank">kadinsky package</a> makes accidental aRt, deliberately.</p>
<p>Angus Taylor's UseR!2017 presentation uses <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/text-categorization-deep-learning.html" target="_blank">MXNET to categorize product reviews on Amazon</a>.</p>
<p>Various <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/gallery-solutions.html" target="_blank">solutions for the energy, retail and shipping industries</a>, with data and Microsoft R code.</p>
<p>Talks on new database interfaces from UseR!2017: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/a-modern-database-interface-for-r.html" target="_blank">Jim Hester on the ODBC package, and Kirill Müller on the DBI package</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/2017/08/because-its-friday-eclipse.html" target="_blank">Pictures and video from the recent total solar eclipse in the US</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/because-its-friday-movie-trailer.html" target="_blank">A generic blockbuster movie trailer</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/because-its-friday-the-shepard-tone.html" target="_blank">The Shepard Tone</a>, an auditory illusion used in several movies</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/because-its-friday-people-remain-awesome.html" target="_blank">People Are Awesome</a>, 2016-2107:</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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