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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from December of particular interest to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/">R</a> users. </p>
<p>Power BI now has a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/power-bi-custom-visuals-based-on-r.html">gallery of custom visualizations built with R</a>.</p>
<p>Chicago's Department of Public Health uses R to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/food-inspection-forecasting.html">prioritize health inspections at restaurants</a>.</p>
<p>A <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/swiss-map.html">beautiful map of Switzerland municipalities</a> combined with a relief map of the mountains, created with R.</p>
<p>Using the Azure Interface Tool to parallelize the problem of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/azure-r-interface-tool.html">optimizing an R model across the hyperparameter space</a>.</p>
<p>A <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/bayesian-inference.html">primer on Bayesian Statistics</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/merry-christmas.html">Animating Voronoi tesselations</a> in R to create a greeting card.</p>
<p>The Linux Data Science Virtual Machine, which includes several R-related components, is <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/dsvm-test-drive.html">available for a free &quot;test</a> <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/dsvm-test-drive.html">drive&quot; on Azure</a>.</p>
<p>The new AzureSMR package lets you <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/azuresmr.html">manage Azure virtual machines, clusters and storage from R</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/interactive-decision-trees-with-microsoft-r.html">Interactive decision trees</a> in Microsoft R Server.</p>
<p>The ompr package provides numerical optimization with <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/mixed-integer-programming-in-r-with-the-ompr-package.html">mixed integer programming</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/predicting-flu-deaths.html">Predicting flu deaths</a> in China with R.</p>
<p>Using the circlize package and Microsoft R Server's Spark interface to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/taxi-mrs-spark.html">visualize millions of taxi trips</a>.</p>
<p>The State of Indiana <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/state-of-indiana-employment.html">uses R to forecast employment</a>.</p>
<p>&quot;One Page R&quot; is a free, multi-chapter <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/one-page-r.html">tutorial on data science topics using R</a>.</p>
<p>The Deputy Chief Economist at Freddie Mac used R to animate the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/housing-prices.html">different rates of housing price increases</a> around the<br>world.</p>
<p>I gave a talk about the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/the-value-of-rs-open-source-ecosystem.html">value of ecosystems to open source projects</a>, using R as an example.</p>
<p>A summary of some recent <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/r-consortium-projects-update.html">projects funded by the R Consortium</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/microsoft-r-server-90-now-available.html">Microsoft R Server 9.0</a>, featuring R 3.3.2 and support for Spark 2.0, is now available.</p>
<p>The dplyrXdf package has been updated with new features for <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/dplyrxdf-090-now-available.html">managing XDF data sets in Microsoft R</a>.</p>
<p>A <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/stylometry.html">stylometric analysis of the speeches</a> of the Prime Minister of Pakistan.</p>
<p>Using R and the d3heatmap package to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/war-and-peace.html#more">visualize the emotional journey of characters</a> in &quot;War and Peace&quot;.</p>
<p>General interest stories (not related to R) in the past month included: the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/because-its-friday-goodbye-2016.html">horrors of 2016</a>, a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/because-its-friday-a-christmas-destiny.html">Machinima Christmas carol</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/because-its-friday-im-forever-freezing-bubbles.html">freezing bubbles</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/because-its-friday-angst-in-four-panels.html">a dark comic strip</a>, and a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/because-its-friday-border.html">virtual flight along the US-Mexico border</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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