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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from April of particular interest to <a target="_blank" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/">R</a> users. </p>
<p>Lukasz Piwek recreates classic <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/tufte-style-graphics-in-r.html">graphs from Tufte's 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information' in R</a>.</p>
<p>A preview of <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/r-conferences-europe-2016.html">upcoming R conferences in Europe</a>.</p>
<p>Andrie de Vries updates the <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/cran-package-growth.html">data on R package growth on CRAN</a>, and finds a <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/a-segmented-model-of-cran-package-growth.html">segmented regression model</a> with break-points in 2007 and 2011 fits the data well.</p>
<p>A Microsoft data scientist <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/data-scientist-perspective.html">compares R, Microsoft R Open and Microsoft R Server</a>.</p>
<p>A <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/webinar-april-28-effective-graphs.html">webinar on data visualization with Microsoft R Open</a>, presented by Naomi and Joyce Robbins.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/mro-324-available.html">Microsoft R Open 3.2.4 now available</a> for Windows, Mac and Linux.</p>
<p>A <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/get-ready-for-rfinance-2016.html">preview of R/Finance 2016</a>, May 20-21 in Chicago.</p>
<p>Julia Silge releases a <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/pride-and-prejudice-and-z-scores.html">CRAN package with the text of Jane Austin's novels</a>, and uses the syuzhet package to map sentiment in the narratives.</p>
<p>Modeling <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/mrs-nyc-taxi.html">tips paid to taxi drivers in NYC</a> with Microsoft R Server running on HDInsight Hadoop.</p>
<p>A webinar recording (with slides) shows how to scale Microsoft R Server to <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/scalable-ds-platform.html">analyze very large data sets on HDInsight with Apache Spark</a>.</p>
<p>News on recent <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/get-involved-with-the-r-consortium.html">grants to community projects by the R Consortium</a> (proposals for the next round are due July 10).</p>
<p>The <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/microsoft-ds-vm-linux.html">Microsoft Data Science Virtual Machine</a>, which packages many data science tools including R, is now available as a Linux VM.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/the-fbis-aerial-surveillance-program-visualized-with-r.html">Buzzfeed used R</a> to visualize the activity of surveillance aircraft used by the US government.</p>
<p>Using Azure ML and R to <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/predicting-wine-quality.html">predict the quality of wine</a>.</p>
<p>A <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/graphical-data-analysis-with-r.html">review of the book <em>Graphical Data Analysis with R</em></a> by Antony Unwin.</p>
<p>Montgomery County, MD opened its <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/an-analysis-of-traffic-violation-data-with-sql-server-and-r.html">traffic violation data</a>, and Srini Kumar used SQL Server and R to visualize it.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/airbnb-uses-r.html">80% of Airbnb's data scientists use R</a>, and share methods and tools via an internal R package.</p>
<p>Microsoft sponsors a <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/connected-brains.html">competition using R to evaluate a treatment for brain injury</a> and infer vision from brain waves.</p>
<p>General interest stories (not related to R) in the past month included stories about: <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/thunderbirds-are-go.html">the new Thunderbirds</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/abbreviated-discource.html">Australian abbreviations</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/witness-brusspup-illusions.html">anamorphic illusions</a>, the <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/because-its-friday-jet-stream.html">jet streams of Earth and Jupiter</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/04/petit-tube.html">never-seen YouTube videos</a>.</p>
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