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Revolution Webinar Series #Rstats
Revolution Analytics Webinar-
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Featured Webinar
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David Champagne CTO, Revolution Analytics |
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Tuesday, December 20th | |
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11:00AM – 11:30AM Pacific Click here for the webinar time in your local time zone |
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Traditional IT infrastructure is simply unable to meet
the demands of the new “Big Data Analytics” landscape. Many enterprises are turning to the “R” statistical programming language and Hadoop (both open source projects) as a potential solution. This webinar will introduce the statistical capabilities of R within the Hadoop ecosystem. We’ll cover:
- An introduction to new packages developed by Revolution Analytics to facilitate interaction with the data stores HDFS and HBase so that they can be leveraged from the R environment
- An overview of how to write Map Reduce jobs in R using Hadoop
- Special considerations that need to be made when working with R and Hadoop.
We’ll also provide additional resources that are available to people interested in integrating R and Hadoop.
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Upcoming Webinars
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| Wed, Dec 14th 11:00AM – 11:30AM PT |
Revolution R Enterprise – 100% R and MoreR users already know why the R language is the lingua franca of statisticians today: because it’s the most powerful statistical language in the world. Revolution Analytics builds on the power of open source R, and adds performance, productivity and integration features to create Revolution R Enterprise. In this webinar, author and blogger David Smith will introduce the additional capabilities of Revolution R Enterprise. |
Archived Webinars-
Revolution Webinar: New Features in Revolution R Enterprise 5.0 (including RevoScaleR) to Support Scalable Data AnalysisRevolution R Enterprise 5.0 is Revolution Analytics’ scalable analytics platform. At its core is Revolution Analytics’ enhanced Distribution of R, the world’s most widely-used project for statistical computing. In this webinar, Dr. Ranney will discuss new features and show examples of the new functionality, which extend the platform’s usability, integration and scalability
UseR goes to Nashville, USA
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
useR! 2012 (12-15 June 2012)
Department of Biostatistics
Vanderbilt University
School of Medicine
Nashville Tennessee USA
Pre-conference Survey
If you plan to attend useR! 2012, help us plan by completing a RedCAP Survey.
Contact
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
Abstracts and Tutorial Proposals
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.
Deadlines
- Tutorial Submission: Dec 1 – Jan 31
- Tutorial Acceptance Notification: Feb 1 – Feb 29
- Abstract Submission: Dec 1 – Mar 12
- Abstract Acceptance Notification: Mar 13 – Apr 15
Registration
Deadlines
- Early Registration: Jan 1 – Feb 29
- Regular Registration: Mar 1 – May 12
- Late Registration: May 13 – June 11
- On-site Registration: June 12 – June 15
Travel and Lodging Information
Vanderbilt University is located in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Air Travel
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.
Car Travel
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.
Creating Pages on Google Plus for some languages
So I decided to create Pages on Google Plus for my favorite programming languages.
a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively
Add to circles
– Comment – Share
Leading statistical language since 1960’s especially in sociology and market research
The leading statistical language in the world
The leading statistical language since 1970’s
Python
https://plus.google.com/107930407101060924456/posts
These are in accordance with Google’s Policies http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/policy/pagesterm.html Continue reading “Creating Pages on Google Plus for some languages”
The Amazing Microsoft Robotics
Amazing stuff from the makers of Kinetic-
Operating systems of Robots may be the future cash cow of Microsoft , while the pirates of Silicon Valley fight fascinating cloudy wars! 🙂
http://www.microsoft.com/robotics/#Product
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 beta (RDS4 beta) provides a wide range of support to help make it easy to develop robot applications. RDS4 beta includes a programming model that helps make it easy to develop asynchronous, state-driven applications. RDS4 beta provides a common programming framework that can be applied to support a wide variety of robots, enabling code and skill transfer.
RDS4 beta includes a lightweight asynchronous services-oriented runtime, a set of visual authoring and simulation tools, as well as templates, tutorials, and sample code to help you get started.
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 beta Datasheet – English (PDF Format)
View the product video on Channel 9!
This release has extensive support for the Kinect sensor hardware throug the Kinect for Windows SDK allowing developers to create Kinect-enabled robots in the Visual Simulation Environment and in real life. Along with this release comes a standardized reference spec for building a Kinect-based robot.
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Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR) helps make it easier to handle asynchronous input and output by eliminating the conventional complexities of manual threading, locks, and semaphores. Lightweight state-oriented Decentralized Software Services (DSS) framework enables you to create program modules that can interoperate on a robot and connected PCs by using a relatively simple, open protocol.
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Visual Programming Language (VPL) provides a relatively simple drag-and-drop visual programming language tool that helps make it easy to create robotics applications. VPL also provides the ability to take a collection of connected blocks and reuse them as a single block elsewhere in your program. VPL is also capable of generating human-readable C#.
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DSS Manifest Editor (DSSME) provides a relatively simple creation of application configuration and distribution scenarios.
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The DSS Log Analyzer tool allows you to view message flows across multiple DSS services. DSS Log Analyzer also allows you to inspect message details.
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Visual Simulation Environment (VSE) provides the ability to simulate and test robotic applications using a 3D physics-based simulation tool. This allows developers to create robotics applications without the hardware. Sample simulation models and environments enable you to test your application in a variety of 3D virtual environments.
Google Dart a new programming language for web applications
From Google a new language for structured web applications-
http://www.dartlang.org/docs/technical-overview/index.html ( a rather unstructured website, if I may add)
Dart is a new class-based programming language for creating structured web applications. Developed with the goals of simplicity, efficiency, and scalability, the Dart language combines powerful new language features with familiar language constructs into a clear, readable syntax.
- a structured yet flexible programming language for the web.
- Make Dart feel familiar and natural to programmers and thus easy to learn.
- Ensure that all Dart language constructs allow high performance and fast application startup.
- Make Dart appropriate for the full range of devices on the web—including phones, tablets, laptops, and servers.
- Provide tools that make Dart run fast across all major modern browsers.
These design goals address the following problems currently facing web developers:
- Small scripts often evolve into large web applications with no apparent structure—they’re hard to debug and difficult to maintain. In addition, these monolithic apps can’t be split up so that different teams can work on them independently. It’s difficult to be productive when a web application gets large.
- Scripting languages are popular because their lightweight nature makes it easy to write code quickly. Generally, the contracts with other parts of an application are conveyed in comments rather than in the language structure itself. As a result, it’s difficult for someone other than the author to read and maintain a particular piece of code.
- With existing languages, the developer is forced to make a choice between static and dynamic languages. Traditional static languages require heavyweight toolchains and a coding style that can feel inflexible and overly constrained.
- Developers have not been able to create homogeneous systems that encompass both client and server, except for a few cases such as Node.js and Google Web Toolkit (GWT).
- Different languages and formats entail context switches that are cumbersome and add complexity to the coding process.
Oracle adds R to Big Data Appliance -Use #Rstats
From the press release, Oracle gets on R and me too- NoSQL
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/512001
The Oracle Big Data Appliance is a new engineered system that includes an open source distribution of Apache™ Hadoop™, Oracle NoSQL Database, Oracle Data Integrator Application Adapter for Hadoop, Oracle Loader for Hadoop, and an open source distribution of R.
From
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/03/oracle_big_data_appliance/
the Big Data Appliance also includes the R programming language, a popular open source statistical-analysis tool. This R engine will integrate with 11g R2, so presumably if you want to do statistical analysis on unstructured data stored in and chewed by Hadoop, you will have to move it to Oracle after the chewing has subsided.
This approach to R-Hadoop integration is different from that announced last week between Revolution Analytics, the so-called Red Hat for stats that is extending and commercializing the R language and its engine, and Cloudera, which sells a commercial Hadoop setup called CDH3 and which was one of the early companies to offer support for Hadoop. Both Revolution Analytics and Cloudera now have Oracle as their competitor, which was no doubt no surprise to either.
In any event, the way they do it, the R engine is put on each node in the Hadoop cluster, and those R engines just see the Hadoop data as a native format that they can do analysis on individually. As statisticians do analyses on data sets, the summary data from all the nodes in the Hadoop cluster is sent back to their R workstations; they have no idea that they are using MapReduce on unstructured data.
Oracle did not supply configuration and pricing information for the Big Data Appliance, and also did not say when it would be for sale or shipping to customers
From
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/features/feature-oracle-nosql-database-505146.html
A Horizontally Scaled, Key-Value Database for the Enterprise
Oracle NoSQL Database is a commercial grade, general-purpose NoSQL database using a key/value paradigm. It allows you to manage massive quantities of data, cope with changing data formats, and submit simple queries. Complex queries are supported using Hadoop or Oracle Database operating upon Oracle NoSQL Database data.
Oracle NoSQL Database delivers scalable throughput with bounded latency, easy administration, and a simple programming model. It scales horizontally to hundreds of nodes with high availability and transparent load balancing. Customers might choose Oracle NoSQL Database to support Web applications, acquire sensor data, scale authentication services, or support online serves and social media.
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from
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2011/09/30/oracle-adopting-open-source-r-to-connect-legacy-systems/
Oracle says it will integrate R with its Oracle Database. Other signs from Oracle show the deeper interest in using the statistical framework for integration with Hadoop to potentially speed statistical analysis. This has particular value with analyzing vast amounts of unstructured data, which has overwhelmed organizations, especially over the past year.
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from
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/features/features-oracle-r-enterprise-498732.html
Oracle R Enterprise
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