Friday, 15 January 2016

Why now is the time to learn R

Here are just a few examples:
  • Google uses R to calculate the ROI on advertising campaigns.
  • Ford uses R to improve the design of its vehicles.
  • Twitter uses R to monitor user experience.
  • The US National Weather Service uses R to predict severe flooding.
  • The Rockefeller Institute of Government uses R to develop models for simulating the finances of public pension funds.
  • The Human Rights Data Analysis Group uses R to quantify the impact of war.
  • R is used frequently by The New York Times to create infographics and interactive data journalism applications.
Check this out!
https://opensource.com/business/14/12/r-open-source-language-data-science

Posted by  Rajitha Thiyagarajah

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