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title : Montreal R Users subtitle : Wow session author : Corey Chivers job : PhD Candidate, Data Hacker logo : mtlRlogo.png framework : io2012 # {io2012, html5slides, shower, dzslides, ...} highlighter : highlight.js # {highlight.js, prettify, highlight} hitheme : tomorrow # widgets : [mathjax] # {mathjax, quiz, bootstrap} mode : standalone # {standalone, draft}

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Welcome to the





Sponsored by: [](http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/)

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R does statistics

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hw <- read.csv("data/heightweight.csv")
fit <- lm(weightLb ~ heightIn, data = hw)
plot(weightLb ~ heightIn, data = hw, xlab = "Height (Inches)", ylab = "Weight (Lbs)")
abline(fit, lty = 2)

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R does reproducible research

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knitr + git

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library(knitr)
knit('001-minimal.Rmd')

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to humans what we want the computer to do. -- Donald E. Knuth, Literate Programming, 1984

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R does GIS

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[](http://spatialanalysis.co.uk/2012/02/great-maps-ggplot2/)

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[](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJE2_XMdfTk)

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R does (competitive) datamining

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Tool of choice for Kagglers

[](http://blog.kaggle.com/2011/11/27/kagglers-favorite-tools/)

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Observing dark worlds Kaggle competition

[](http://bayesianbiologist.com/2012/10/13/observing-dark-worlds-visualizing-dark-matters-distorting-effect-on-galaxies/)

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LDA Topic modelling of the Sarah Palin Emails

• Wildlife:

  • game, fish, moose, wildlife, hunting, bears, polar, bear, subsistence, management, area, board, hunt, wolves, control, department, year, use, wolf, habitat, hunters, caribou, program, denby, fishing, …

• Energy/Fuel/Oil/Mining:

  • energy, fuel, costs, oil, alaskans, prices, cost, nome, now, high, being, home, public, power, mine, crisis, price, resource, need, community, fairbanks, rebate, use, mining, villages, …

• Trig/Family/Inspiration:

  • family, web, mail, god, son, from, congratulations, children, life, child, down, trig, baby, birth, love, you, syndrome, very, special, bless, old, husband, years, thank, best, …

• Education/Waste:

  • school, waste, education, students, schools, million, read, email, market, policy, student, year, high, news, states, program, first, report, business, management, bulletin, information, reports, 2008, quarter, …

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R does Business Intelligence

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Demand forecasting at John Deere

[](http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/news-events/free-webinars/2012/order-fulfillment-forecasting-at-john-deere/)

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[](http://www.amazon.com/R-Business-Analytics-A-Ohri/dp/1461443423)

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R does Big Data

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[](http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/27/big-data-right-now-five-trendy-open-source-technologies/)

"The R community is one of the most thrilling places to be in Big Data right now." --TechCrunch

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R and Hadoop

[](http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/09/mapreduce-hadoop-r.html)

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R does journalism

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[](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/05/05/sports/baseball/mariano-rivera-and-his-peers.html?ref=baseball)

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[](http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/04/16/us/20080416_OBAMA_GRAPHIC.html)

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R does the web

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[](https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/visualizing-friendships/469716398919)

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http://research.google.com/pubs/pub37483.html

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[](http://www.wajam.com/)

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Easy web apps with Shiny

http://www.rstudio.com/shiny/

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Community development, community support

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Packages on CRAN


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[](http://www.drewconway.com/zia/?p=2892)

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Thank you for hosting!


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Source

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Slide source available on github