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Great Way to learn Git easily

a great way to learn Git easily is here https://try.github.io/

This is a much better designed code school project than the one for R

http://tryr.codeschool.com/

However Swirl is a great way to learn R in an interactive way. its only drawback is it needs to be integrated with something like http://www.r-fiddle.org/#/ for a true automated browser only version

Why do I favor automated elearning solutions now? Because teaching the same thing again and again can be boring for the teacher and videos can be boring for the students. Note how the potential student is given positive reinforcement to boost his morale, something any good teacher know.

The Superpower Doctrine

Superpowers have super citizens. Killing their citizens starts wars. Inviting those citizens for trade and travel leads to prosperity.
The dominant culture on the planet in terms of literature, language, and entertainment belongs to the Superpower.
You cannot be a new Superpower unless you defeat or distract or corrupt the old Superpower. At the very minimum the transition is fraught with both competition and cooperation
Superpowers provide the elite of their own citizenry with enviable lifestyles as well as freedom to speak and act (atleast in private).
The richest country in the world is always a target. The most militarized country will always go broke. You become a superpower only when you can keep the balance.
Superpowers have allies. Their enemies are divided more than their allies.
History of a nation and a race can be used for predictive analytics about the future

Based on – the literary and strategic classic

There is more to open source statistics than R #rstats

There is more to open source statistics than R and other things your Professor never told you

There is a disturbing trend I see in members of R Community particularly in its evangelical wing, in claiming R is the panacea and cure for all things statistical. No one software can and will be able to handle all the parts of the data analytics pipeline equally well, there will always be trade-offs based on perceptual assessments of both current needs and future trends.

While an employee of a proprietary software company can and will always claim that his software is the best and fastest for everything, what has happened over the past few years is that analytics open source software people have been neatly split into Pythonistas and R Users.

This is a disturbing trend. Rather than mimick and copy libraries and packages between R and Python, there should be a movement for greater inter-operability and transparency in cross training. Why cant you teach Pandas in a R Meetup and Why cant you learn ggplot2 in a Python meetup.

United we stand and both R and Python communities will gain. Divided, the opponents of open source will end up appropriating the work of the community and laugh all the way to the bank.

More R and More Python. Like Rum with Cola. Not Seperately, but together. Is that a pipe dream, or will that benefit industry? I would love to see atleast one big startup making products and services in both!

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Movie Review X Men Days of Future Past

The great thing about the movie is the story and the cast. The worst thing is you still end up cheering for Peter Dinklage. Wolverine is grayer ( which is surprising since he did not age right) and both Patrick Stewart and Gandalf the Grey look a wee bit subdued. The younger Magneto and Xavier though end up owning the show. The actor playing Nixon looked plastic. How did a guy with a nose like that ever get elected?

Fun time- awesome plot- Bryan Singer returns to prime form. Alas, this may be one over milked franchise if they decide to sequel it. This is the perfect ending!

Yoga for Geeks

I have been doing Yoga for the past two weeks and the results are great. Here I reproduce some of these ancient Indian exercises which can hopefully help you. Note- yoga is thousands of years old and there is no copyright !

Revolution Analytics and RStudio- Different approaches to being open source in #rstats

RStudio is free ( as in beer) and free (as in speech). You pay for RStudio Services ( including training, enterprise and pro editions ).But the software is both open source and free for everyone. The services is how they basically pay for bread and pizza.

https://www.shinyapps.io/

https://www.shinyapps.io/pricing

ShinyApps.io is currently in Alpha which means we’re still figuring out exactly how pricing will work for the service. We do know that we’ll have a tiered pricing model in hopes of making the service accessible to as many different groups as we can. We will offer a free tier for users with light needs and feature requirements.

We’ll announce the specifics of the pricing model for ShinyApps.io in the coming months.

http://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio-server-pro/

RStudio Server Pro lets multiple users share access to powerful compute resources (memory, processors, etc.). Team leaders can centralize the installation and configuration of their R environment with the visibility and control needed to manage it all effectively.

http://www.rstudio.com/pricing/smb-pricing/

RStudio offers discounts on RStudio Server Pro and Shiny Server Pro for businesses up to $5 million in annual revenue. Our goal to make it so that small startups and developers can get started easily with a credit card. Our intention is to charge a fair price for the value derived and to grow with each small business as they gain value from our products.

To qualify for Small Business discounts, businesses must:

Disclose last year’s annual revenue to RStudio on request (for example, provide an accounting statement)
Display “Powered by RStudio™ Shiny” at the bottom of all Shiny application pages
Complete the order online (links below)
- Accept the standard “click-through” RStudio license agreement
- Pay by credit card
Repeat these steps to re-qualify annually at the time of renewal

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The champion of the Enterprise software for the R language remains Revolution Analytics.

They offer source code for all, and free software for academics. The have training services and they are much ahead of RStudio is partnering up formally with other players and corporates in the ecosystem. By cleverly using consultants included noted package creators, they have managed to keep their costs down and research output high including R Hadoop, Revo Deploy R and the earlier optimized efforts.

But the basic software is not free, RevoScaleR package does not have a community edition, there is no SMB discounts. Part of the reason is Revolution is funded by Intel and Microsoft initially, while RStudio chugs along on it’s own. Revolution Analytics has also changed 3 CEOs and at one time fired half the staff while RStudio has cautiously and steadily ramped up.

This is one reason lot more people use software from RStudio , lot less people use software from Revolution Analytics, and RevoScaleR package is not so widely known in industry

http://buy.revolutionanalytics.com/

Revolution R Enterprise Workstation

Your workstation license entitles you to exclusive use by a single named user and excludes automated use of the software, including scheduled batch processing and embedding into other software applications; includes the Revolution R Productivity Environment on the Windows platform only.

Revolution R Enterprise Entry Workstation: Up to 4 cores
Revolution R Enterprise Power Workstation: Up to 8 cores

Revolution R Enterprise Server

A server license of Revolution R Enterprise supports unlimited users, and is required for automated applications including scheduled batch processing, and embedding into other software applications. A server license includes use of the DeployR Web Services framework.

Revolution R Enterprise Training

Revolution Analytics provides world class training, designed and delivered by R programming experts, to ensure that you and your team are immediately productive and able to take advantage of all the features and functions available in Revolution R Enterprise Workstation and Server. In addition to our core product courses, we provide industry specific training opportunities as well as custom, on-site training to bring your entire team up to speed all at the same time.