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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from January of particular interest to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/">R</a> users. </p>
<p>The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/dsvm-updated-now-includes-rstudio.html">Data Science Virtual Machine on Azure has been updated</a> with the latest Microsoft R Server, and adds RStudio and JuliaPro.</p>
<p>A crowdsourced <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/list-of-r-conferences-and-user-groups.html">list of local R user groups and community events</a>, maintained by Colin Gillespie.</p>
<p>Resources for searching R packages, now that <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/cran-10000.html">CRAN has more than 10,000</a> of them.</p>
<p>An <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/kung-fu-r.html">analysis of 2 decades of Kung Fu movies</a> (with R code) by Jim Vallandingham.</p>
<p>New Zealand's Heartland Bank <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/nz-bank-replaces-sas-with-r.html">replaced SAS with Microsoft R Server</a>.</p>
<p>A tutorial on creating a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/microsoftml-taxi-trips.html">predictive model for the NYC Taxi dataset using the MicrosoftML package</a> in Microsoft R Server.</p>
<p>A list of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/upcoming-r-conferences.html">upcoming R conference and meetings</a>.</p>
<p>The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/free-guide-to-text-mining-with-r.html">new book <em>Text Mining with R</em></a> by Julia Silge and David Robinson, also available free online.</p>
<p>A comprehensive guide to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/git-gud-with-git-and-r.html">using Git and Github for R projects</a> with RStudio, by Jenny Bryan.</p>
<p>Media <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/microsoft-r-server-in-the-news.html">reactions to the release of Microsoft R Server 9</a>.</p>
<p>A survey by Forwards, the R Foundation taskforce, quantifies <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/diversity-in-the-r-community.html">diversity in the R community</a>.</p>
<p>A new R package distributes <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/the-fivethirtyeight-r-package.html">data (and some R code) behind many data journalism features at fivethirtyeight.com</a>.</p>
<p>A <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/tiger-team-tips.html">collection of Microsoft R Server tips</a> from the customer support team.</p>
<p>R is being used to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/education-analytics.html">predict student performance in Australia and India</a>.</p>
<p>A <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/the-anatomy-of-a-useful-chart.html">case study in data visualization design</a>: NOAA's flood prediction chart.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/stackoverflow-insights.html">StackOverflow has released a dataset of question-and-answer data</a>, which several people have analyzed using R.</p>
<p>Several arguments for <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/three-reasons-to-learn-r-today.html">why R is the best data science language to learn</a> today.</p>
<p>A <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/analyzing-emotions-in-video-with-r.html">tutorial on analyzing emotions in video</a>, using R and the Microsoft Emotion API.</p>
<p>An introduction to the new <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/remote-and-local-r-workspaces.html">remote R workspace feature of Microsoft R Server 9</a>.</p>
<p>A roundup of the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/the-biggest-r-stories-from-2016.html">major news about R in 2016</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/2017/01/because-its-friday-tangram-earth.html">rearranged continents</a>, a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/because-its-friday-infrastructure-collapses.html">collapsing bridge</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/because-its-friday-code-burn.html">satire for coders</a>, and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/because-its-friday-photography-tricks.html">crafty photographer tricks</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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