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<p>In case you missed them, here are some articles from February of particular interest to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/">R</a> users. </p>
<p>Public policy researchers use R to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/forecasting-gentrification.html">predict neighbourhoods in US cities subject to gentrification</a>.</p>
<p>The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/ggraph-ggplot-for-graphs.html">ggraph package</a> provides a grammar-of-graphics framework for visualizing directed and undirected graphs.</p>
<p>Facebook has open-sourced the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/facebook-prophet.html">&quot;prophet&quot; package</a> they use for forecasting time series at scale.</p>
<p>A preview of features <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/preview-r-tools-for-visual-studio-10.html">coming soon to R Tools for Visual Studio 1.0</a>.</p>
<p>On the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/the-difference-between-r-and-excel.html">differences between using Excel and R</a> for data analysis.</p>
<p>A data scientist suggests a &quot;Gloom Index&quot; for identifying the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/finding-radioheads-most-depressing-song-with-r.html">most depressing songs by the band Radiohead</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/catterplots-plots-with-cats.html">Catterplots</a> is a package that replaces scatterplot points with cats. (Tufte would not approve.)</p>
<p>A collection of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/six-articles-on-using-r-with-sql-server.html">tips on using Microsoft R Server</a> from the support team.</p>
<p>A summary of the many <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/preview-r-340.html">improvements slated for R 3.4.0</a>.</p>
<p>R code using the RevoScaleR package to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/sql-server-galaxy.html">classify a large database of galaxy images in SQL Server</a>.</p>
<p>A review of four <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/deep-learning-in-r.html">deep learning packages for R</a>: MXNet, darch, deepnet and h2o.</p>
<p>An update on more than a dozen projects and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/update-on-r-consortium-projects.html">community initiatives funded by R Consortium grants</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/job-trends-for-r-and-python.html">R has overtaken SAS</a> for Statistics job listings on indeed.com.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/moderndive.html">ModernDive</a> is a free online textbook on Statistics and data science using R. </p>
<p>A solution (with R code) for <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/retail-applications-with-microsoft-r.html">modeling customer churn in the retail industry</a> using SQL Server R Services.</p>
<p>The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/superheat-supercharged-heatmaps-for-r.html">superheat package</a> provides enhanced heatmap graphics for R.</p>
<p>The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/fst-fast-serialization-of-r-data-frames.html">fst package</a> provides a new serialization format for R data focused on performance.</p>
<p>Thomas Dinsmore reflects on <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/the-year-in-r.html">major events in the R Project and for Microsoft in 2016</a>.</p>
<p>And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R): <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/because-its-friday-looking-down-the-glory-hole.html">A big drain</a>; <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/because-its-friday-et-tu.html">'Vous' vs 'tu'</a>; a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/because-its-friday-remembering-hans-rosling.html">remembrance of the late Hans Rosling</a>; and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/because-its-friday-jump.html">Ten Meter Tower</a>, a short film.</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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