This story contains interviews with David Smith, chief community officer at Revolution Analytics; Casey Herron, data scientist at Revolution Analytics; Tess Nesbitt, director of analytics at DataSong; ...

You might not have ever heard of the programming language R but, if you’re doing data analysis, it might be just the language you need. And this particular book on R is one that is likely to teach you ...

We're at the beginning of a new wave of numeric data -- and the new R language provides a powerful array of tools to make sense of it all We tend to think of programming languages as general purpose, ...

A few years ago, I was the CTO and cofounder of a startup in the medical practice management software space. One of the problems we were trying to solve was how medical office visit schedules can ...

Spreadsheets are still useful, but if you do a lot of work with numbers, you'll realize that they have limitations.

Programming has become essential for looking at large datasets, and the R language is particularly useful for statistical analysis. With the R Programming Language Compiler app, you can now test and ...