This Thursday, December 10th at 7 pm UTC, as part of the Why R? Webinar series, we will be delighted to host David Smith, Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft. He will be speaking about the history of R at Microsoft and surveying the company products that now integrate with our beloved R programming language.
David will answer all your questions at the end of the session. Join us!
Webinar
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Speaker
- David Smith With a background in statistics and data science, David is the editor of the Revolutions blog where he has written about applications of data science with a focus on the programming language “R” since 2009. He is also a co-author of the R manual “Introduction to R”, and a member of the board of directors for the R Consortium. He lives with his husband in the San Francisco Bay Area. Follow David on Twitter as @revodavid.
Talk description
R at Microsoft
In 2015, Microsoft acquired the R-based software startup Revolution Analytics, which spurred Microsoft’s investment in R and, ultimately, in open source generally. In this talk, David will review the history of R at Microsoft, and survey the landscape of Microsoft products than now integrate with R.
Sponsor
This event is part of a series sponsored by Jumping Rivers. For more information, check out the JR and WhyR partnership announcement.
Jumping Rivers is an advanced analytics company whose passion is data and machine learning. Our mission is to help clients move from data storage to intelligent data insights leveraging training and setup for data operations with world-leading experts in R and Python.
We offer courses in analytics, data visualisation and programming languages. From individuals to teams, we have what is needed to upscale your skills.
Our courses go from introduction to R and Python to advanced statistical models.
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