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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from September of particular interest to <a target="_blank" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/">R</a> users. </p>
<p>The R-Ladies meetups and the Women in R Taskforce support <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/all-the-r-ladies.html">gender diversity in the R community</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/data-science-summit-highlights.html">Highlights from the Microsoft Data Science Summit</a> include recordings of many presentations about R, and the keynote &quot;The Future of Data Analysis&quot; by Edward Tufte.</p>
<p>An R-based <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/fraud-detection.html">fraud detection model scores credit card transactions in SQL Server</a> at a rate of 1 million records per second.</p>
<p>The <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/financial-times-quantitative-journalism.html">Financial Times uses R for quantitative journalism</a> (and made some lovely animations comparing European football teams). </p>
<p>Part 3 in a series on <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/deep-learning-part-3.html">Deep Learning looks at combining CNNs with RNNs</a>.</p>
<p>There were many <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/reflections-on-earl-london-2016.html">real-world applications of R presented at the EARL London conference</a>, including <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/microsoft-r-at-the-earl-conference.html">applications of Microsoft R</a> at Investec, British Car Auctions and Beazley Group.</p>
<p>Tips on choosing the <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/choose-the-right-tool.html">right data science tool</a> for a project.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/tidyverse.html">Tidyverse</a>: a collection of packages for working with data in R.</p>
<p>The <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/linux-dsvm-upgrade.html">Linux Data Science Virtual Machine</a> has been upgraded with new tools including Microsoft R Server.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/pirates-guide-to-r.html">The Pirate's Guide to R</a>: a video and 250-page e-book to learn the R language.</p>
<p>The <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/2016-data-science-salary-survey.html">2016 O'Reilly Data Science Salary Survey</a> reveals the most-used tools are SQL (70%), R (57%) and Python (54%).</p>
<p>A simple <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/how-the-algorithm-behind-deep-learning-works.html">explanation of Convolutional Neural Networks</a>.</p>
<p>A <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/r-services-maintenance.html">template for building a predictive maintenance application</a> with SQL Server R Services.</p>
<p>The R Consortium awarded a grant of $10,000 to the <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/volunteer-to-help-improve-rs-documentation.html">R Documentation Task Force</a> to design and build the next generation R documentation system.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/the-elements-of-scaling-r-based-applications-with-deployr.html">Scaling R-based applications</a> with DeployR grid nodes and slots.</p>
<p>An R package to <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/the-pallettes-of-earth.html">extract colour palettes from satellite imagery</a>.</p>
<p>A guide for <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/rewriting-sas-in-r-for-finance.html">porting SAS programs for financial data manipulation to R</a>.</p>
<p>How to analyze basketball data and <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/analyzing-nba-basketball-data-with-r.html">create animations of player movements with R</a>.</p>
<p>Create a more <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/choose-a-good-heatmap-color-scale-with-viridis.html">perceptive heatmap colour scale</a> with the viridis package.</p>
<p>General interest stories (not related to R) in the past month included: how a <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/because-its-friday-typesetting-in-the-olden-days.html">newspaper was printed in 1973</a>, illusions caused by our <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/peripheral-illusions.html">poor peripheral vision</a> (), a <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/because-its-friday-a-big-chart-about-climate-change.html">chart (to scale!) about climate change</a>, a <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/because-its-friday-the-happy-files.html">happier version of the X Files theme</a>, and a <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/09/because-its-friday-the-creation-of-the-universe-in-paint-and-salt.html">short film about the creation of the universe</a>.</p>
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