R you Ready ?

Shankar Radhakrishnan R-Meetup, Chennai

[ http://www.meetup.com/R-Users-Group-Chennai/ ]

Why R• Easy, Nimble, Versatile, Scalable

• Best variety of algorithms available

• Mindshare of online communities

• IDE (RStudio, Stat-ET, Eclipse, TextMate, Notepad++)

• Build analytics model

• Powerful data visualization options

• Operate on Hadoop

• Delivers high performance analytics

Use cases…

• Drug discovery

• Speech recognition and analysis

• Trading and impact of external events

• Predicting medicare

• Operational analytics

• Ad Optimization

“ R is a real demonstration of the power of collaboration, and don’t think you could

construct something like this any other way…”

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Ross Ihaka, Robert Gentleman

Thanks !