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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from October of particular interest to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/" target="_blank">R</a> users.</p>
<p>A recent <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/survey-of-kagglers.html" target="_blank">survey of competitors on the Kaggle platform</a> reveals that Python (76%) and R (59%) are the preferred tools for building predictive models.</p>
<p>Microsoft's <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/recent-updates-to-the-team-data-science-process.html" target="_blank">&quot;Team Data Science Process&quot; has been updated</a> with new guidelines on use of the IDEAR framework for R and Python.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/microsoft-r-open-342-now-available.html" target="_blank">Microsoft R Open 3.4.2</a> is now available for Windows, Mac and Linux.</p>
<p>Using the foreach package to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/bias-bootstrap-foreach.html" target="_blank">estimate bias of rpart trees via bootstrapping</a>.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/two-upcoming-webinars.html" target="_blank">Replays of webinars</a> on the Azure Data Science VM, and on document collection analysis with Azure ML Workbench, are now available.</p>
<p>The &quot;officer&quot; package makes it possible to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/office-charts.html" target="_blank">create PowerPoint and Word documents from R</a>, and even <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/office-charts.html" target="_blank">include editable R charts</a>.</p>
<p>An online book on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/statistical-machine-learning-with-microsoft-ml.html" target="_blank">statistical machine learning with the MicrosoftML package</a>.</p>
<p>An updated <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/updated-history-of-r.html" target="_blank">list of major events in the history of the R project</a>, 1992-2016.</p>
<p>An <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/r-manuals-bookdown.html" target="_blank">overview of the R manuals</a>, now also available in Bookdown format.</p>
<p>An R-based analysis comparing the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/bokes-taxis-nyc.html" target="_blank">speeds of bikes and taxis for trips across New York City</a>.</p>
<p>Vision-based AI techniques used to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/snow-leopards.html" target="_blank">estimate the population of endangered snow leopards</a>.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/my-interview-with-ropensci.html" target="_blank">ROpenSci interviews David Smith</a> about working in the R community.</p>
<p>A generational neural network, implemented in R, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/an-ai-pitches-startup-ideas.html" target="_blank">synthesizes startup names and business plans</a>.</p>
<p>Two R-themed crosswords: a <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/a-cryptic-crossword-with-an-r-twist.html" target="_blank">cryptic one by Barry Rowlingson</a>, and a <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/r-crossword.html" target="_blank">standard one from R-Ladies DC</a>.</p>
<p>A tutorial on using <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/adla-with-r.html" target="_blank">Azure Data Lake Analytics with R</a>.</p>
<p>The remarkable <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/rs-remarkable-growth.html" target="_blank">growth of R, as seen in StackOverflow traffic data</a>.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/announcing-dplyrxdf-10.html" target="_blank">Version 1.0.0 of the dplyrXdf package</a>, providing dplyr operations for Microsoft R out-of-memory data files, is now available.</p>
<p>The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/deep-learning-vm.html" target="_blank">GPU-enabled Deep Learning Virtual Machine on Azure</a> includes R, Spark, Tensorflow and more.</p>
<p>A <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/assault-death-rates.html" target="_blank">comparison of assault death rates in the US and other advanced democracies</a>, generated in R by Kieran Healy.</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/2017/10/because-its-friday-movies-with-mikey.html" target="_blank">Analysis of the film Ex Machina</a>, and others</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/because-its-friday-30-days-of-cargo.html" target="_blank">Time-lapse video of a 30-day voyage on a cargo ship</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/because-its-friday-line-rider.html" target="_blank">Films made with Line Rider</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/10/because-its-friday-death-risk.html" target="_blank">A website suggests a random cause of death</a>, from CDC data</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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