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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from February of particular interest to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/" target="_blank">R</a> users.</p>
<p>The R Consortium opens a <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/02/r-consortium-sponsorships.html" target="_blank">new round of grant applications</a> for R-related user groups and projects, and has <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/02/r-consortium-milestone.html" target="_blank">issued US$0.5M in grants to date</a> for R-related projects and events.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/02/mrclient343.html" target="_blank">Microsoft R Client 3.4.3 and Microsoft ML Server 9.3</a>, both built with R 3.4.3, have been released. </p>
<p>An 8-step, 5-minute tutorial for <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/02/aztk-sparklyr.html" target="_blank">setting up a cluster in Azure for use with the sparklyr package</a>.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/02/accelerometers.html" target="_blank"> A smartphone app uses R</a> and the keras package to identify &quot;spells&quot; using accelerometer data.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/02/r-with-tensorflow.html" target="_blank">&quot;Machine Learning with R and Tensorflow&quot;</a>, JJ Allaire's keynote presentation at RStudio::conf.</p>
<p>A guide to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/02/pretty-base-graphics.html" target="_blank">styling base graphics in R</a>.</p>
<p>A list of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/02/what-does-microsoft-do-with-r.html" target="_blank">applications, open source projects, and extensions from Microsoft related to R</a>.</p>
<p>Several upcoming <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/02/diversity-scholarships.html" target="_blank">R conferences offer diversity scholarships</a>.</p>
<p>Introducing the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/02/dataexplorer.html" target="_blank">DataExplorer package</a>, for quick data summaries and visualizations. </p>
<p>A <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/02/dsvm-on-ai-show.html" target="_blank">video overview of the Data Science Virtual Machine</a>, featuring R. </p>
<p>&quot;Asking the right questions about AI&quot;, an <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/02/how-ai-works-and-fails.html" target="_blank">essay about the ethical implications of predictions</a>.</p>
<p>And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R):</p>
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<li>A <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/02/because-its-friday-faster-than-light.html" target="_blank">sci-fi short about faster-than-light travel</a> </li>
<li>A <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/02/because-its-friday-hold-the-door.html" target="_blank">robot holds a door open</a> so another robot can pass</li>
<li>SpaceX launches a car into space</li>
<li>A bizarre CGI short film, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/02/because-its-friday-time-for-sushi.html" target="_blank">Time for Sushi</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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