Joseph sirosh the corporate vice president, machine learning, microsoft and david smith, chief community officer at revolution analytics recently announced that the two companies had reached an. Its name derives from combining the letter r with the word evolution. Infoq interviewed david smith, vp of community for revolution analytics at the strata big data conference. Revolution analytics formerly revolution computing is a statistical software company focused.
A data scientist will often combine transactional data from a nosql system, demographic data from a rdbms, unstructured data from hadoop, and social data from a streaming api david smith. Here is an interview with revolution computings director of community david smith. Microsoft has also deployed r internally, wrote david smith, revolution analytics chief community officer in a related blog post. The next step after capturing big data is to analyze it, said david smith, revolution analytics chief community officer and head of the new open source solutions group, explaining why. Jun 03, 2014 according to revolution analytics chief community officer david smith. This is a community site for r spondored by revolution analytics. Revolution analytics was founded in 2007 as revolution computing providing support and services for r in a. In a separate blog post, david smith, chief community. For example, microsoft used the language to develop the match. Jan 26, 2015 microsoft has acquired revolution analytics to enhance its open source services and set free the power of the r programming language. In a blog post david smith, chief community officer at revolution analytics, admitted that microsoft might seem like a strange bedfellow for an opensource company, but said that the. Revolution analytics, which provides productiongrade analytics software built upon the open source r statistics language, and teradata, a provider of analytic data solutions, recently announced that as a result of a deepened partnership, teradata is now offering indatabase r analytics that are fully parallel and scalable.
Jan 28, 2015 for example, david smith, chief community officer for revolution analytics tweeted as follows. Revolution analytics launches open source r support zdnet. Jan 30, 2015 aside from updating microsofts advanced analytics offerings, the acquisition will also expand its open source technology lineup. For agencies looking to gain insight from data stored in bigdata platforms, like hadoop not to mention lowering software costs, the opensource statistical software r is a natural choice. Reproducibility with revolution r open and the checkpoint. Jan 23, 2015 microsoft has also deployed r internally, wrote david smith, revolution analytics chief community officer in a related blog post. Promoted company and software with topranked analytics blog revolutions blog. In a separate blog post, david smith, chief community officer at revolution analytics, acknowledged that microsoft might seem like a strange bedfellow for an opensource company. Apr 30, 2020 this is a community site for r spondored by revolution analytics. Our annual guide to the businesses that matter the most. The company used rs capabilities to help xbox live pair. Opensource r software driving big data analytics in. Microsoft has acquired revolution analytics to enhance its open source services and set free the power of the r programming language.
David smith, chief community officer of revolution analytics, wrote in his own blog post that microsoft has been a big user or r. The software giant will work with revolution analytics. This site also provides leads to data sources, which some. David smith is vice president of marketing and community at revolution analytics, the leading commercial provider of software and services based on the open source r project for statistical.
This guest post is by alex guazzelli, vp of analytics at zementis inc. Microsoft buys revolution analytics increasing momentum for. Oct 15, 2014 revolution analytics contributes to the growing r community with open source software, user group sponsorships, and free revolution r licenses for academia and nonprofits. Microsoft acquires statistical software company, revolution. Microsoft to acquire r language powerhouse revolution. Microsoft and the revolution analytics the d of things. Our development team spent more than six months making r work on 64bit windows and optimizing. David smith, chief community officer at revolution analytics and author of the manual an introduction to r, said the language was developed primarily for smallscale statistical analyses in. If you continue browsing the site, you agree to the use of cookies on this website. R support package unveiled in time for bigdata boom. Microsoft buys r language vendor revolution analytics. Revolution analytics provides software and support for the open source r statistics language users. The business economics and opportunity of opensource data.
Microsoft buys revolution analytics for big data boost it pro. Well continue to support and develop the revolution r family of products including on nonwindows platforms like mac and linux, smith wrote in a blog. David smith cloud advocate microsoft cloud advocates. Just about every proprietary software vendor out there has announced some kind of connection with open source r, really on the basis that their users want access to r on the platforms their using. Revolution analytics, which provides productiongrade analytics software built upon the open source r statistics language, and teradata, a provider of analytic data solutions, recently. Revolution analytics will keep its name and will continue to drive important opensource initiatives, according to david smith, revolutions chief community officer. The company used rs capabilities to help xbox live pair players. David smith, chief community officer at revolution analytics, said that traditional enterprise tools struggle to match the opensource communitys ability to innovate, iterate and evolve rapidly. Revolution analytics, a commercial provider of software, services and support for the open source r project, has announced the general availability of revolution r enterprise 6. The software giant will work with revolution analytics to. Revolution analytics formerly revolution computing is a statistical software company focused on developing open source and opencore versions of the free and open source software r for enterprise, academic and analytics customers. Interview david smith revolution computing smartdata.
Microsoft has reached an agreement to acquire revolution analytics, the leading commercial provider of software and services for r, the worlds most widely. Revolution analytics formerly revolution computing was founded in 2007 to foster the r community. How microsoft could implement a hybrid embrace of r. He writes daily about applications of r and predictive analytics on the. Microsoft to acquire revolution analytics to help customers. Revolution analytics formerly revolution computing was founded in 2007 to foster the r community, as well as support the growing needs of commercial users. Now, microsoft might seem like a strange bedfellow for an opensource company, but the company continues to make.
According to the company, the new iteration of revolution r enterprise delivers better performance, productivity, and. This site also provides leads to data sources, which some are free. The promise of iot is being able to assemble data from lots of sources, and were not quite there yet, said david smith, chief community officer at software vendor revolution analytics in mountain view. Ajay ohri at decisionstats revently interviewed me about my background, this blog, and revolution computings plans for revolution r enterprise and parallelr. Big data researchers can glean an important lesson from the facebook study and the criticism it received, said david smith, chief community officer at revolution analytics, one of leading. Our development team spent more than six months making r work on 64bit windows and optimizing it for speed, which we released as revolution r enterprise bundled with parallelr.
Hear more about his transition from statistician to a career in mathematical software. Several years ago, david smith, chief community officer at revolution analytics, noticed that a lot of academics and students used r but saw less usage in industry. Revolution analytics commercializing r for statistics. Microsoft to acquire r language powerhouse revolution analytics. David smith leads the open source solutions group at revolution analytics a subsidiary of microsoft. David smith is the chief community officer for revolution analytics. Microsoft buys revolution analytics for big data boost. On the subject of big data analytics i have interviewed david smith, vice president of marketing and community at revolution analytics. Opensource r software driving big data analytics in government. Revolution analytics is the leading commercial provider of software and.
Why the r programming language is good for business. Revolution analytics ceo dave rich was interviewed by wikibons david vellante and siliconangles john furrier at the strata 2012 conference last week. Community vice president david smith suggested that movement away from black box analytics toward open source tools in general. Jan 23, 2015 by david smith, chief community officer on behalf of the entire revolution analytics team i am excited to announce that revolution analytics is joining forces with microsoft to bring r to even more enterprises. Given daves background at accenture analytics, the conversation naturally turned to impact of predictive analytics and r on business services. Feb 27, 20 a data scientist will often combine transactional data from a nosql system, demographic data from a rdbms, unstructured data from hadoop, and social data from a streaming api odbms editor roberto zicari interviews david smith, vp at revolution analytics, on big data, analytics, r, data scientists, and more. Microsoft acquires revolution analytics to bolster its analytics. Ive been working with statistical software my entire career. Recently named a top 10 influencer on the topic of big data, i asked david smith, the chief community.
The company used rs capabilities to help xbox live pair players online based on skills and other factors. According to revolution analytics chief community officer david smith. Revolution analytics contributes to the growing r community with open source software, user group sponsorships, and free revolution r licenses for academia and nonprofits. Learn about using open source r for big data analysis, predictive modeling, data science. Apr 06, 2015 revolution analytics will keep its name and will continue to drive important opensource initiatives, according to david smith, revolutions chief community officer. Data scientists want big data ethics standards informationweek. The relevance of open source advanced analytics dataversity. Gartner, though, noted a few issues with revolution s approach. Interview with david smith of revolution analytics. Revolution analytics introduces revolution r open and. May 05, 2014 revolution analytics, commercial providers of open source r software, announced monday the launch of adviser, a realtime technical support program for users of the r programming language. Likewise, if you copy an object with y revolution analytics formerly revolution computing is a statistical software company focused on developing open source and opencore versions of the free and open source software r for enterprise, academic and analytics customers. Open source r in commercial revolution the register. Some of these changes particularly the first one listed below are likely to affect the results of rs calculations, so i would not recommend running scripts written.
Revolution analytics sees big data solutions moving into smb arena. Jan 23, 2015 in a blog post david smith, chief community officer at revolution analytics, admitted that microsoft might seem like a strange bedfellow for an opensource company, but said that the company also continues to make great strides in the opensource arena recently. The slow progress of iot technology isnt due to a lack of attention. Microsoft acquires opensource software firm revolution. With a vibrant and active user community and support from bigdata analytics provider revolution analytics, many government agencies have turned to. Come here to get the latest codes, tools, and how to advice for r. Sep 17, 2014 big data researchers can glean an important lesson from the facebook study and the criticism it received, said david smith, chief community officer at revolution analytics, one of leading commercial providers of software and services based on the opensource r programming language. For example, david smith, chief community officer for revolution analytics tweeted as follows. The company used rs capabilities to help xbox live pair players online based. Revolution analytics is the leading commercial provider of software and services for r, the worlds most widely used programming language for statistical computing and predictive analytics.
Just about every proprietary software vendor out there has announced some kind of connection with open source r. About the authors revolutions revolution analytics. This r blog site maintained by revolution analytics focuses more on news and industry uses with r. Revolution analytics sees big data solutions moving into.
Microsoft announced today that it will acquire revolution analytics. We are making this acquisition to help more companies use the power of r and data science to unlock big data insights with advanced analytics. Software and tools business analytics business library. Revolution analytics supports the r community and the evergrowing needs of commercial users. Revolution analytics had the apparently simple yet pretty clever strategy of developing and enhancing its analytics platform on top of r in order to offer a debugged and commercial ready r. Aug 25, 2014 david smith is the chief community officer for revolution analytics. David smith ajay tell us about your journey in science. Jan 23, 2015 revolution analytics is the leading commercial provider of software and services for r, the worlds most widely used programming language for statistical computing and predictive analytics. When you delete an object in r, it will usually releases the associated memory back to the operating system. The promise of iot is being able to assemble data from lots of sources, and were not quite there yet, said david smith, chief community officer at software vendor revolution analytics in mountain view, calif. Recently named a top 10 influencer on the topic of big data, i asked david smith, the chief community officer at revolution analytics, to share with me what keeps this programming language ticking.
Revolution analytics future with microsoft transforming. May 29, 2009 here is an interview with revolution computings director of community david smith. As revolution analytics chief community officer david smith notes, the company has also embraced linux and hadoop, and contributed to. Open source vendors blaze a trail in advanced analytics. David smith, chief community officer at revolution analytics. Revolution provides commercial extensions for the open source r statistics package and. Feb 15, 2016 the appeal of revolution analytics without a doubt revolution analytics is quite an interesting company, founded lest than 10 years ago in 2007 it has become one of the most representative. Sep 30, 20 revolution analytics, which provides productiongrade analytics software built upon the open source r statistics language, and teradata, a provider of analytic data solutions, recently announced that as a result of a deepened partnership, teradata is now offering indatabase r analytics that are fully parallel and scalable. Jun 05, 2012 revolution analytics, a commercial provider of software, services and support for the open source r project, has announced the general availability of revolution r enterprise 6. David champagne, who was the principal architect and engineer at spss, is chief technology officer at revolution, and david smith, who is a statistician with a degree from the. Revolution analytics was founded in 2007 as revolution computing providing support and services for r in a model similar to red hats approach with linux in the. Aside from updating microsofts advanced analytics offerings, the acquisition will also expand its open source technology lineup. New revolution r enterprise boosts big data analytics.
May 06, 2010 david champagne, who was the principal architect and engineer at spss, is chief technology officer at revolution, and david smith, who is a statistician with a degree from the university of. A data scientist will often combine transactional data from a nosql system, demographic data from a rdbms, unstructured data from hadoop, and social data from a streaming. Home page for david smith, a microsoft cloud developer advocate. David smith, revolution analytics vice president of marketing and. David smith is vice president of marketing and community at revolution analytics, the leading commercial provider of software and services based on the open source r project for statistical computing.
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