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R training: Visualization, Big Data, Data Mining, and Marketing Analytics

Revolution Analytics is hosting several live and online courses over the next couple of months that will be of interest to R users looking to hone their skills: Visualization in R with ggplot2. Garrett Grolemund and Winston Chang instruct how to use the ggplot2 package to make, format, label and adjust graphs using R. (August 28, Redwood City, CA.) Big Data Analytics with RevoScaleR. Jared Lander provides training on how to take advantage of the capabilities of RevoScaleR for high performance analytics on big datasets. (September 6-7, online.) Intro to R for Data Mining. Joseph Rickert teaches a class with a combination of lecture and labs to instruct students on how to effectively use R for Data Mining. (September 13 & 20, online.) Analytics for Marketing. Allan Engelhardt will give participants an overview of the key techniques used in direct marketing for analysing customer data. (September 25-28, online.) Click the links above for full course descriptions and pricing and registration information. And check out the Revolution Analytics R training for more live and online courses on offer.

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David Smith is Vice President of Marketing and Community at Revolution Analytics. He has a long history with the R and statistics communities. After graduating with a degree in Statistics from the University of Adelaide, South Australia, he spent four years researching statistical methodology at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom, where he also developed a number of packages for the S-PLUS statistical modeling environment. He continued his association with S-PLUS at Insightful (now TIBCO Spotfire) overseeing the product management of S-PLUS and other statistical and data mining products.<

David smith is the co-author (with Bill Venables) of the popular tutorial manual, An Introduction to R, and one of the originating developers of the ESS: Emacs Speaks Statistics project. Today, he leads marketing for REvolution R, supports R communities worldwide, and is responsible for the Revolutions blog. Prior to joining Revolution Analytics, he served as vice president of product management at Zynchros, Inc. Follow him on twitter at @RevoDavid