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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from March of particular interest to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/">R</a> users. </p>
<p>A tutorial and comparison of the SparkR, sparklyr, rsparkling, and RevoScaleR <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/tutorial-scaling-r.html">packages for using R with Spark</a>.</p>
<p>An <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/scrabblr.html">analysis of Scrabble games</a> between AI players.</p>
<p>The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/doazureparallel.html">doAzureParallel package</a>, a backend to &quot;foreach&quot; for parallel computations on Azure-based clusters.</p>
<p>The UK government project to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/uk-statistics.html">automate reporting of official statistics with R</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/redmonk-jan-2017.html">Data science languages R and Python rank highly</a> in the latest Redmonk popularity rankings.</p>
<p>FiveThirtyEight <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/comparing-subreddits.html">used R to find clusters of similar subreddits</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/announcing-r-tools-10-for-visual-studio-2015.html">RTVS 1.0</a>, which provides R support to Visual Studio, is now available.</p>
<p>The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/running-your-r-code-azure.html">mrsdeploy package</a> (part of Microsoft R Server) facilitates publishing an R function as a web service on Azure.</p>
<p>The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/give-a-talk-about-an-application-of-r-at-earl.html">Call for Papers for the EARL conferences</a> in London and San Francisco closes on April 14.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/alteryx-integrates-with-microsoft-r.html">Alteryx Designer</a> has been integrated with Microsoft R.</p>
<p>StitchFix, the personal styling service, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/data-science-at-stitchfix.html">uses R and Python</a> as part of their data science process.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/review-testing-r-code.html">A review of &quot;Testing R Code&quot;</a>, by Richie Cotton.</p>
<p>On the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/auc-meets-u-stat.html">connection between AUC and the Mann-Whitney U-Statistic</a>.</p>
<p>An <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/neural-networks-r.html">overview of neural networks</a> and R packages to train them.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/benchmarking-rxneuralnet.html">Performance benchmarks of rxNeuralNetwork</a> (in the MicrosoftML package).</p>
<p>Updates to the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/dsvm-linux-updates.html">Data Science Virtual Machine for Linux</a>.</p>
<p>A <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/the-rise-of-civilization-visualized-with-r.html">timelapse of the founding of cities</a> since 3500BC.</p>
<p>A set of R scripts and sample data to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/employee-retention.html">predict employee attrition</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/r-333-now-available.html">R 3.3.3</a> is now available.</p>
<p>The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/htmlwidgets-gallery.html">htmlwidgets gallery</a> catalogs interactive web-based charts for R.</p>
<p>R-based analyses to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/hospital-length-of-stay.html">predict the length of a hospital stay</a>.</p>
<p>Scholarships to encourage <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/diversity-scholarships.html">diversity at useR!2017</a>.</p>
<p>And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R): <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/because-its-friday-universe-time-lapse.html">simulating the galaxy</a>;  a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/because-its-friday-run-ollie-run.html">poor showing at Crufts</a>; why <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/because-its-friday-memes.html">some memes survive better than others</a>;  a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/because-its-friday-timelife.html">digital clock made in Life</a>; and a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/03/because-its-friday-how-to-read-music.html">tongue-in-cheek guide to reading sheet music</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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