1. R you Ready ?
Shankar Radhakrishnan
R-Meetup, Chennai
[ http://www.meetup.com/R-Users-Group-Chennai/ ]
2. 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
3. Use cases…
• Drug discovery
• Speech recognition and analysis
• Trading and impact of external events
• Predicting medicare
• Operational analytics
• Ad Optimization
4. “ 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 !