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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from July of particular interest to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/" target="_blank">R</a> users.</p>
<p>A tutorial on using the rsparkling package to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/h2o-hdinsight.html" target="_blank">apply H20's algorithms to data in HDInsight</a>.</p>
<p>Several exercises to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/foreach-exercises.html" target="_blank">learn parallel programming with the foreach package</a>.</p>
<p>A <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/08/in-case-you-missed-it-july-2017-roundup.html" target="_blank">presentation on the R6 class system</a>, by Winston Chang.</p>
<p>Introducing &quot;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/joyplots.html" target="_blank">joyplots</a>&quot;, a ggplot2 extension for visualizing multiple time series or distributions (with a nod to Joy Division).</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/sql-server-rc1.html" target="_blank">SQL Server 2017, with many new R-related capabilities</a>, is nearing release.</p>
<p>Ali Zaidi on using <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/neural-embeddings-nlp.html" target="_blank">neural embeddings with R and Spark</a> to analyze Github comments.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/ieee-spectrum-2017-top-programming-languages.html" target="_blank">R ranks #6</a> in the 2017 IEEE Spectrum Top Programming Languages.</p>
<p>Course materials on &quot;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/harvardx.html" target="_blank">Data Analysis for the Life Sciences</a>&quot;, from Rafael Irizarry.</p>
<p>How to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/secret-package.html" target="_blank">securely store API keys in R scripts</a> with the &quot;secret&quot; package.</p>
<p>An in-depth tutorial on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/nnets-from-scratch.html" target="_blank">implementing neural network algorithms in R</a>.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/revisiting-user2017.html" target="_blank">Recordings from the useR!2017 conference</a> in Brussels are now available. The conference was also <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/user-2017-livestream.html" target="_blank">livestreamed</a>. </p>
<p>Recording of my lightning talk, &quot;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/r-in-minecraft-lightning.html" target="_blank">R in Minecraft</a>&quot;.</p>
<p>Uwe Ligges' useR!2017 keynote, &quot;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/20-years-of-cran.html" target="_blank">20 years of CRAN</a>&quot;.</p>
<p>A framework for implementing a <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/credit-risk-prediction.html" target="_blank">credit risk prediction system with Microsoft R</a>.</p>
<p>High school students <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/deep-learning-and-drones.html" target="_blank">build a facial-recognition drone</a> using Microsoft Cognitive Services and Raspberry Pi.</p>
<p>he R Consortium is <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/r-consortium-survey.html" target="_blank">conducting a survey of R users</a>.</p>
<p>The R GUI framework <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/xgboost-support-added-to-rattle.html" target="_blank">&quot;rattle&quot; now supports XGBoost models</a>.</p>
<p>My presentation at useR!2017, &quot;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/how-perceptions-of-r-have-changed.html" target="_blank">R, Then and Now</a>&quot;, on how perceptions of R have changed over the years.</p>
<p>Seven <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/more-companies-using-r.html" target="_blank">Microsoft customers using R for production applications</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/2017/07/because-its-friday-rolling-shutters-explained.html" target="_blank">A video explanation of the rolling shutters effect</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/because-its-friday-how-bitcoin-works.html" target="_blank">How Bitcoin and other digital currencies work</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/because-its-friday-hidden-holes.html" target="_blank">How sinkholes form</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/because-its-friday-o-captain.html" target="_blank">Air traffic control in Flight Simulator X</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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