Here is a contest based community called CrowdANALYTIX.com which is quite nice and offers you free Revolution R for the statistical and analytical contests based there (a bit like Kaggle.com http://www.kaggle.com/). There are only 3 contests right now and that too low volume but I guess that number should increase. Also they seem to have a consulting arm.
Latest Analytics website- welcome! http://www.crowdanalytix.com/contests
I saw a posting for career with Revolution Analytics. Now I am probably on the wrong side of a H1 visa and the C,R skill-o-meter, but these look great for any aspiring R coder. Includes one free lance opp as well.
http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/aboutus/careers.php
We have many opportunities opening up—among them:
| Job Title | Location |
| Pre-sales Consultants / Technical Sales | Palo Alto, CA |
| Parallel Computing Developer | Palo Alto, CA or Seattle, WA |
| R Programmer (Freelance) | Palo Alto, CA |
| Software Training Course Developer (Freelance) | Palo Alto, CA |
| Build / Release Engineer | Seattle, WA |
| QA Engineer | Seattle, WA |
| Technical Writer | Seattle, WA |
Please send your resume to careers@revolutionanalytics.com
2) Indeed.com
Searching for “R” jobs and not just , R jobs, gives better results in search engines and job sites. It is still a tough keyword to search but it is getting better.
You can use this RSS feed http://www.indeed.co.in/rss?q=%22R%22++analytics+jobs or send by email option to get alerts
I Crunch Data has a good number of Analytics Jobs, and again using the keyword as R within quotes of “R” you can see lots of jobs here
http://www.icrunchdata.com/ViewJob.aspx?id=334914&keys=%22R%22
There used to be a Google Group on R jobs, but is too low volume compared to the actual number of R jobs out there.
Note the big demand is for analytics, and knowing more than one platform helps you in the job search than knowing just a single language.
As per official statistics, not many people download data from it .
Why dont they just donate the data and save taxpayers some money
| Agency/Sub-Agency/Organization | Raw Datasets (high-value) |
Tools (high-value) |
Geodata | Total | Latest Entry | # of times downloaded within the last week* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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TOTAL
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3,486 (2,163) | 1,071 (393) | 386,429 | 390,986 | 08/24/2011 | 0 |
* These numbers represent the number of times a user has clicked on the “XML” or “CSV” (for example) links in the Raw Data Catalogs to download datasets and user downloads of tools in the Tool Catalog available in these categories.
But apparently lots of people like it still
http://www.data.gov/metric/visitorstats/monthlyredirecttrend
More list of public data repositories-
Google http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
DataMob http://datamob.org/datasets
Amazon http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/
DataMarket http://datamarket.com/
Infochimps http://www.infochimps.com/
From SEC, the Edgar http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html
More lists of lists
http://www.kdnuggets.com/2011/02/free-public-datasets.html
But who gets more downloads last week than Data.gov !
There are multiple packages in R to read data straight from online datasets.
These are as follows- Continue reading “Using #Rstats for online data access”
My latest article published in India Telecom Brief on the patent wars-
Patent Wars in Mobile Software
Why are Apple, Microsoft and Google spending billions to acquire patents? Recently Google, maker of the largest selling mobile operating system, Android decided to acquire Motorola Mobility for 12.5 billion dollars, giving it some 17000 patents with another 7500 patents pending.
Meanwhile some months ago, a consortium led by Microsoft, Apple and Research in Motion (maker of Blackberry) bought 6000 patents by Nortel Networks for 4.5 billion dollars.
These are only the defensive moves in these patent wars. In offensive moves, Microsoft has sued HTC, Barnes and Nobles, Motorola for patent infringement over them using Android operating system claiming some aspects are patented by it. Though Google does not earn any money directly from selling Android, ironically Microsoft is earning money from Android vendors including up to 5 dollars per handset from HTC.
Read the full article at http://www.indiatelecombrief.com/from-the-editors-desk/51839-patent-wars-in-mobile-software
Related–
A brilliant infographic from George Kokkinidis at Design Language http://news.designlanguage.com/post/1473307539 sums all the absurdity up- where almost everyone is suing everyone. Truly a picture is worth a thousand words.
Using a virtual partition is slightly better than using a dual boot system. That is because you can keep the specialized operating system (usually Linux) within the main operating system (usually Windows), browse and alternate between the two operating system just using a simple command, and can utilize the advantages of both operating system.
Also you can create project specific discs for enhanced security.
In my (limited ) Mac experience, the comparisons of each operating system are-
1) Mac- Both robust and aesthetically designed OS, the higher price and hardware-lockin for Mac remains a disadvantage. Also many stats and analytical software just wont work on the Mac
2) Windows- It is cheaper than Mac and easier to use than Linux. Also has the most compatibility with applications (usually when not crashing)
3) Linux- The lightest and most customized software in the OS class, free to use, and has many lite versions for newbies. Not compatible with mainstream corporate IT infrastructure as of 2011.
I personally use VMWare Player for creating the virtual disk (as much more convenient than the wubi.exe method) from http://www.vmware.com/support/product-support/player/ (and downloadable from http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/desktop_downloads/vmware_player/3_0)
That enables me to use Ubuntu on the alternative OS- keeping my Windows 7 for some Windows specific applications . For software like Rattle, the R data mining GUI , it helps to use two operating systems, in view of difficulties in GTK+.
Installing Rattle on Windows 7 is a major pain thanks to backward compatibility issues and version issues of GTK, but it installs on Ubuntu like a breeze- and it is very very convenient to switch between the two operating systems
Download Rattle from http://rattle.togaware.com/ and test it on the dual OS arrangement to see yourself.
David Smith of Revo presents a nice webinar on the capabilities and abilities of Revolution R- if you are R curious and wonder how the commercial version has matured- you may want to take a look.
click below to view an executive Webinar
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