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Monday, May 05, 2014

R is Good for Business

Or, I think, how it is used.  As with all tools.   In Fastcolabs. 

" ... “When someone develops a new predictive model or a new visualization, they don’t just publish their research in a journal, they also publish R code in open source that anybody can access and use,” says Smith. ... When it comes to data science, the academic and business worlds are colliding. There is cross-pollination between the analysis methods researchers use in the lab and how career data scientists study their customer’s data models. And it looks like their common language, R, will continue to bolster their data science exchange for some time to come .... " 

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