In more R news, it appears SAS isn’t as worried about airplane safety as originally thought, and has indicated they will include R support in an upcoming update to the SAS/IML product. For details see NYTimes & Adventures in Consulting.
SAS hints at future R integration
February 17th, 2009 · No Comments · News, Software
R in the New York Times
January 8th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Software
The New York Times has an interesting story on the increasing use of R for data analysis within academia and industry. Several large corporates are cited as having selected R over commercial conterparts such as S and SAS.
[via Slashdot]
Update: For more R news, see also Ajay Ohri’s interview with Dr Graham Williams, the author of [...]
SAS Forum (Australia) presentations available online
September 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Australia, Industry, Software
The SAS Forum (Australia) was held in Sydney back in August. I was unable to attend but luckily the presentations have been put online. Here are some that I found interesting:
Make Sure Your Insight is Insightful: Analytical Marketing at NAB by Antony Ugoni (National Australia Bank)
Model Deployment and Management – The ATO Story by Warwick [...]
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