Statisticians and data miners have been using R software and language for analytics within research and academia environments for some time. This open source community has contributed thousands of ...

This story contains interviews with David Smith, chief community officer at Revolution Analytics; Casey Herron, data scientist at Revolution Analytics; Tess Nesbitt, director of analytics at DataSong; ...

Microsoft hasn't been standing still since it became the new commercial steward of the R programming language by acquiring R specialist Revolution Analytics a year ago. The company has been busy ...

Microsoft kicked off the Spark Summit in San Francisco with news of “an extensive commitment for Spark to power Microsoft’s big data and analytics offerings, including Cortana Intelligence Suite, ...

As rapidly growing amounts of data are created and used in industry and research environments, there is an increasing demand for people who are able to pursue data-driven thinking and decision-making ...

The US health care system is rapidly adopting electronic health records, which will dramatically increase the quantity of clinical data that are available electronically. Simultaneously, rapid ...