Message from Predictive Analytics World-
1. IF YOU ARE IN EUROPE:
PAW London is next week, 30 Nov – 1 Dec, plus a workshop from John Elder on 2 Dec. More info: www.pawcon.com/london
2. IF YOU ARE IN NORTH AMERICA: (Happy Thanksgiving!)
The complete agenda for PAW San Francisco (March 4-10, 2012) has been launched.
Super Early Bird: Savings of $600 over onsite registration until Dec 16
More info: www.pawcon.com/sanfrancisco
Register: www.pawcon.com/sanfrancisco/register.php
3) Fellow Human Beings for being nice to me when they feel curt, for displaying civilized manners, and working together in a vast invisible web of commerce, trade and exchange to meet our needs.
4) Scientists and Engineers who create wonderful technology by spending hours , months , years of their lives and giving it up for free on the Internet.
5) Powerful people who take time to mentor unknown wild cards, and young people to rejuvenate with new exciting ideas.
6) people who appreciate my poetry and people who appreciate my technology. and people who criticize only in the intention of me striving to create something better.
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Webinar: Using R within Oracle — Nov 30, noon EST
— URL for TechCast: https://stbeehive.oracle.com/bconf/confDetails?confID=334B:3BF0:owch:38893C00F42F38A1E0404498C8A6612B0004075AECF7&guest=true&confKey=608880
— Web Conference ID: 303397
— Web Conference Key: 608880
— Dialup: 1-866-682-4770 , ID 5548204, passcode 1234
After a steady rise in the past few years, in 2010 the open source data mining software R overtook other tools to become the tool used by more data miners (43%) than any other (http://www.rexeranalytics.com/Data-Miner-Survey-Results-2010.html).
Several analytic tool vendors have added R-integration to their software. However, Oracle is the largest company to throw their weight behind R. On October 3, Oracle unveiled their integration of R: Oracle R Enterprise (http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/features/features-oracle-r-enterprise-498732.html) as part of their Oracle Big Data Appliance announcement (http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/512001).
Oracle R Enterprise allows users to perform statistical analysis with advanced visualization on data stored in Oracle Database. Oracle R Enterprise enables scalable R solutions, while facilitating production deployment of R scripts and Hadoop based solutions, as well as integration of R results with Oracle BI Publisher and OBIEE dashboards.
This TechCast introduces the various Oracle R Enterprise components and features, along with R script demonstrations that interface with Oracle Database.
TechCast presenter: Mark Hornick, Senior Manager, Oracle Advanced Analytics Development.
This TechCast is part of the ongoing TechCasts series coordinated by Oracle BIWA: The BI, Warehousing and Analytics SIG (http://www.oracleBIWA.org).
So I got the email from Revolution R. Version 5.0 is ready for download, and unlike half hearted attempts by many software companies they make it easy for the academics and researchers to get their free copy. Free as in speech and free as in beer.
Some thoughts-
1) R ‘s memory problem is now an issue of marketing and branding. Revolution Analytics has definitely bridged this gap technically beautifully and I quote from their documentation-
The primary advantage 64-bit architectures bring to R is an increase in the amount of memory available to a given R process.The first benefit of that increase is an increase in the size of data objects you can create. For example, on most 32-bit versions of R, the largest data object you can create is roughly 3GB; attempts to create 4GB objects result in errors with the message “cannot allocate vector of length xxxx.”On 64-bit versions of R, you can generally create larger data objects, up to R’s current hard limit of 231 1 elements in a vector (about 2 billion elements). The functions memory.size and memory.limit help you manage the memory used byWindows versions of R.In 64-bit Revolution R Enterprise, R sets the memory limit by default to the amount of physical RAM minus half a gigabyte, so that, for example, on a machine with 8GB of RAM, the default memory limit is 7.5GB:
2) The User Interface is best shown as below or at https://docs.google.com/presentation/pub?id=1V_G7r0aBR3I5SktSOenhnhuqkHThne6fMxly_-4i8Ag&start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000
-(but I am still hoping for the GUI ,Revolution Analytics promised us for Christmas)
3) The partnership with Microsoft HPC is quite awesome given Microsoft’s track record in enterprise software penetration
but I am also interested in knowing more about the Oracle version of R and what it will do there.
Just saw a text ad on my chrome browser. Not a website just the browser.
Text ads courtesy Google Chrome.
No matter what website you go- well who has the browser can show you ads. I am glad the decade long stint of browsers as a sink hole for free stuff is going to go away soon.
Hmm.
Now if Microsoft comes up with in-Desktop Ads and slices the prices it would be fun.
Holiday season starts early!
So if Vanderbilt did lose (again) to UT (http://www.govolsxtra.com/news/2011/nov/20/video-tennessee-highlights-vanderbilt-game/) , they have somethign better to look before next season’s football season.
UseR is coming to Tennessee in 2012! This is the premier conference happens annually for R language (>2 mill users), and alternated between Europe and North America every other year.
Details here
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/UseR-2012
If you plan to attend useR! 2012, help us plan by completing a RedCAP Survey.
Stephania McNeal-Goddard
Assistant to the Chair
stephania.mcneal-goddard@vanderbilt.edu
Phone: 615.322.2768
Fax: 615.343.4924
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Department of Biostatistics
S-2323 Medical Center North
Nashville, TN 37232-2158
Participants are encouraged to submit an abstract to for oral presentation during a Kaleidoscope or Focus session, or for poster presentation. Tutorial proposals are also welcomed.
Vanderbilt University is located in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The nearest major airport to Vanderbilt University is the Nashville International Airport (BNA). The airport is about 10 miles east of the campus and downtown Nashville. The BNA website maintains a list of ground transportation options for air travelers. The approximate taxi fare from the airport to Vanderbilt University is $27. Shuttles and buses are also available from the airport. The latter is economical (approximate fare is $1.60), but the travel time is more than an hour.
Nashville is located at the intersection of three major interstates. Interstate 40 approaches from the east and west, interstate 24 from the northwest and southeast, and interstate 65 from the northeast and south.
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