Predicting Oscars

This is an awesome movie with the term coming to mind as a mind-fish movie. Superb cast, superb acting and the camera makes the movie as it was done in one take.

Birdman- shall set us free. It talks of art, sexuality, theatre, fragile egos, and our obsession with fantasy and comic book movies that is strangling art slowly and surely.

Microsoft acquires leading vendor of enterprise R -Revolution Analytics

The news-

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/01/revolution-acquired.html

Revolution Analytics joins Microsoft

by David Smith, Chief Community Officer

On behalf of the entire Revolution Analytics team I am excited to announce that Revolution Analytics is joining forces with Microsoft to bring R to even more enterprises. Microsoft announced today that it will acquire Revolution Analytics.

and

http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2015/01/23/microsoft-acquire-revolution-analytics-help-customers-find-big-data-value-advanced-statistical-analysis/

Microsoft to acquire Revolution Analytics to help customers find big data value with advanced statistical analysis

Posted January 23, 2015 By Joseph Sirosh – Corporate Vice President, Machine Learning, Microsoft

I’m very pleased to announce that Microsoft has reached an agreement to acquire Revolution Analytics. Revolution Analytics is the leading commercial provider of software and services for R, the world’s most widely used programming language for statistical computing and predictive analytics. We are making this acquisition to help more companies use the power of R and data science to unlock big data insights with advanced analytics.

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Detailed Note to follow, but in the meantime.

Training in R on the WeekendR in February

I have agreed to teach R on the Weekend. As a change from my usual online trainings these will be in the class. I am collaborating with http://weekendr.in/r-training.html

For an initial price the cost is Rs 5500 (~100 USD) for 8 sessions of 3 hours each in the classroom. This is only for New Delhi, India as of now.

You can review the course here http://weekendr.in/r-training.html

2014 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 140,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 6 days for that many people to see it.

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Python for R Users

Python for R Users or ( R for Python Users)

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Movie Review “PK” Bollywood December 2014

A heart warming movie from the actor-director combo that gave us Three Idiots, PK is a sometimes silly and always quixotic look at religion and superstition in India. The protagonist is an alien from outer space- who provides us with a logical and hilarious view of how silly we earthlings look as we go about trying to impose religion and God.

Watch it for the fun and with English subtitles as well. It got a top 10 entry in USA movie market, so its all good everywhere. Let the season of joy take you in it’s thrall.