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Book of the Show
- Jason: The hard thing about hard things
- Patrick: Steel World
Tool of the Show
R
- Suggested language: Thanks John Williams!
- Alfredo Gallegos asks: What is Data Science?
- Adding structure to data
- Enriching data
- Building models to estimate/classify/cluster/embed data
- Data science competition / tutorials
- Features
- Open Source
- Data Frames
- Lots of packages
- Rmr (map reduce in R)
- Cons
- Fragmented community
- Many packages/frontends lack support
- History
- Based on S from Bell Labs
- Developed by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the University of Auckland
- Popular Packages
- ggplot2
- R -> gnuplot
- htmlwidgets
- web visualizations
- R Markdown
- markdown support
- zoo
- Time series
- RODBC / RMySQL / RPostgresSQL / RSQLite
- SQL support
- GUIs
- RStudio
- Rattle
- Learning R
