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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from November of particular interest to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/">R</a> users. </p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/11/mro-332-now-available.html">Microsoft R Open 3.3.2</a>, based on R 3.3.2, has been released for Windows, Mac and Linux.</p>
<p>A new, free course on EdX focuses on the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/11/edx-microsoft-r.html">big-data extensions of Microsoft R Server</a>.</p>
<p>Using ggplot2 to create a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/11/divvy-chicago.html">calendar heat map of city bike usage in Chicago</a>.</p>
<p>A <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/11/r-services-intelligent-app.html">tutorial on creating an in-database rental prediction service</a> for a ski shop with SQL Server R Services.</p>
<p>Detailed <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/11/calculating-auc.html">R code to calculate AUC</a>, the area under a ROC curve.</p>
<p>Rankings of the 5 <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/11/most-popular-r-packages.html">most popular R packages by downloads</a> (with and without dependencies).</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/11/deep-learning-mona-lisa.html">Using computer vision algorithms from R</a> to find images in a photomosaic.</p>
<p>Airbnb has released the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/11/airbnb-growth.html">knowledge repository they use to share data science reports</a> generated using R.</p>
<p>Using the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/11/data-manipulation-with-sparklyr-on-azure-hdinsight.html">sparklyr package to manipulate data on Azure HDInsight</a>.</p>
<p>The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/11/update-to-dplyrxdf.html">dplyrXdf package has been updated</a> to provide subsetting and column subsetting for out-of-memory XDF files.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/11/rstudio-v10-released.html">RStudio v1.0</a> has been released.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/11/a-look-back-at-the-cubs-and-indians-performance.html">Charting historical baseball statistics</a> with the Lahman package.</p>
<p>This <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/11/a-bayesian-election-forecast.html">Bayesian US election prediction model</a>, implemented with R and Stan, turned out to be not so successful.</p>
<p>Making <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/11/glmnetutils.html">elastic net regression with glmnet</a> a little easier: the glmnetUtils package.</p>
<p>A list of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/11/spotlights-october-2016.html">notable new and updated R packages</a>.</p>
<p>A tutorial on calling the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/11/how-to-call-cognitive-services-apis-with-r.html">Cognitive Services text analytics APIs from R</a>.</p>
<p>Some lessons and examples on <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/11/sas-to-r-migration.html">migrating financial data applications from SAS to R</a>.</p>
<p>General interest stories (not related to R) in the past month included: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/11/happy-thanksgiving.html">giving thanks</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/11/because-its-friday-non-transitive-dice.html">non-transitive dice</a>, the most <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/11/because-its-friday-current-status.html">unsatisfying film</a>, the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/11/how-did-the-election-forecasts-get-it-so-wrong.html">US election surprise</a>, and the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/11/because-its-friday-we-went-all-the-way.html">Cubs win</a>.</p>
<p>As always, thanks for the comments and please send any suggestions to me at <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="mailto:davidsmi@microsoft.com">davidsmi@microsoft.com</a>. Don't forget you can follow the blog using an RSS reader, via <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blogtrottr.com/">email using blogtrottr</a>, or by following me on Twitter (I'm <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/revodavid">@revodavid</a>). You can find roundups of previous months <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/roundups/">here</a>.</p>
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