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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from December of particular interest to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/" target="_blank">R</a> users.</p>
<p>Hadley Wickham's <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year.html" target="_blank">Shiny app for making eggnog</a>.</p>
<p>Using R to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/because-its-friday-deck-the-halls.html" target="_blank">analyze the vocal range of pop singers</a>.</p>
<p>A video <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/data-table-video.html" target="_blank">tour of the data.table package</a> from its creator, Matt Dowle.</p>
<p>The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/erum-2018.html" target="_blank">European R Users Meeting</a> (eRum) will be held in Budapest, May 14-18.</p>
<p>Winners of the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/police-data-challenge.html" target="_blank">ASA Police Data Challenge</a> student visualization contest.</p>
<p>An <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/introduction-to-seplyr.html" target="_blank">introduction to seplyr</a>, a re-skinning of the dplyr package to a standard R evaluation interface.</p>
<p>How to run <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/r-in-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux.html" target="_blank">R in the Windows Subsystem for Linux</a>, along with the rest of the Linux ecosystem.</p>
<p>A <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/a-chart-of-bechdel-test-scores.html" target="_blank">chart of Bechdel scores</a>, showing representation of women in movies over time.</p>
<p>The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/bes-reproducible-science.html" target="_blank">British Ecological Society's Guide to Reproducible Science</a> advocates the use of R and Rmarkdown.</p>
<p>Eight modules from the <a rel="nofollow" href="services:%20http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/ml-server-ai-path.html" target="_blank">Microsoft AI School cover Microsoft R and SQL Server ML Services</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/2017/12/the-trouble-with-bias-by-kate-crawford.html" target="_blank">Kate Crawford's keynote from NIPS 2017</a> on the issue of bias in artificial intelligence applications, a topic also <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/on-the-biases-in-data.html" target="_blank">covered in the Microsoft AI Blog</a>.</li>
<li>The original Star Wars movie was a dud before it was <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/because-its-friday-editing-star-wars.html" target="_blank">rescued in editing</a>.</li>
<li>I'm now a member of the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/cloud-advocate.html" target="_blank">Cloud Developer Advocates team at Microsoft</a>.</li>
<li>A <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/because-its-friday-3-d-animation.html" target="_blank">Disney animator draws in 3-D</a> with a virtual reality kit</li>
<li>A very, very wide web page <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/because-its-friday-1-pixel-moon.html" target="_blank">visualizes the Solar System to scale</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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