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The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full February edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email.
Case study: Real-Time Marketing Analytics. Online advertising technology company Exelate uses predictive models to improve their customer's marketing campaigns with 3-5 times better lift. Read how Exelate uses Revolution R Enterprise and IBM PureData Systems for Analytics to model terabytes of data and generate hundreds of millions of scores every day in our latest case study.
Revolution Analytics in the News: CEO David Rich talks about the Big Data business landcape with Forbes, and David Smith talks to InformationWeek about how to beat the Big Data disconnect.
Revolution Analytics is Hiring! To meet the rapidly growing enterprise demand for R-based predictive analytics solutions, we're looking to hire dedicated data scientists, engineers, consultants, trainers and sales and marketing personnel. To join our innovative and fast-growing company at the forefront of predictive analytics, take a look at the career opportunities available at www.revolutionanalytics.com/careers.
Revolution Analytics at O'Reilly Strata. If you're attending the Strata Making Data Work Conference Feb 26-28 in Santa Clara CA, be sure to visit booth 618 to see how Revolution R Enterprise works with Hadoop, and for your free copy of Big Data, Big Analytics signed by the authors (while supplies last).
Video Chat on Big Data and Analytics. On February 20 at 10AM Pacific Time, Revolution Analytics VP of Marketing and Community David Smith will join panelists from IBM, RedMonk, Trident Marketing and One Tree for an online chat on big data, analytics, and expert integrated systems. Details on how to join the live Google Hangout or catch the video replay can be found at the IBM Expert Integrated Systems blog.
Video: Introduction to Data Mining with R. Our most recent webinar was a record-setter, with more than 2000 enthusiasts signed up to learn how to mine big data with Revolution R Enterprise. If you missed it, a video replay of the webinar is now available.
Get Started with R and Hadoop. Learn how to use Revolution R Enterprise in big-data environments with Hadoop in hands-on training from Jeffrey Breen (Think Big Analytics), Feb 25 in Palo Alto, CA and March 14 in Boston, MA. Jeffrey explained the core technology concepts of Hadoop in our recent webinar Using R and Hadoop, now available for on-demand replay.
New to Revolution R Enterprise? Learn how Revolution R Enterprise adds power, productivity and enterprise readiness to open-source R in our free webinar "100% R and More" on March 14.
Be Counted in Rexer's Data Mining Survey. Since 2007, Rexer Analytics has been surveying data miners and analytic professionals on their software choices. Help keep R at the #1 spot by taking the 2013 Rexer Data Miner Survey (use access code RV8V2).
Vendor Insight: Revolution Analytics. Analyst firm MWD Advisors has just completed their profile of Revolution Analytics: "a leading commercial open source vendor of the R language". Download the PDF report: On the Radar: Revolution Analytics.
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David Smith is Vice President of Marketing and Community at Revolution Analytics. He has a long history with the R and statistics communities. After graduating with a degree in Statistics from the University of Adelaide, South Australia, he spent four years researching statistical methodology at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom, where he also developed a number of packages for the S-PLUS statistical modeling environment. He continued his association with S-PLUS at Insightful (now TIBCO Spotfire) overseeing the product management of S-PLUS and other statistical and data mining products.< David smith is the co-author (with Bill Venables) of the popular tutorial manual, An Introduction to R, and one of the originating developers of the ESS: Emacs Speaks Statistics project. Today, he leads marketing for REvolution R, supports R communities worldwide, and is responsible for the Revolutions blog. Prior to joining Revolution Analytics, he served as vice president of product management at Zynchros, Inc. Follow him on twitter at @RevoDavid
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