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Interview with Boulder BI Brain Trust
By David Smith
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March 11, 2013 07:04 PM EDT
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On Friday I traveled to Boulder, CO to update the Boulder BI Brain Trust on the latest news and updates from Revolution R Enterprise. While I was there, I was interviewed by BBBT president Claudia Imhoff. In a wide-ranging chat, we discussed:  What's behind the Revolution Analytics momentum over the past year? How Business Intelligence relates to Data Science Case studies of Revolution R in production The value of "black box" machine learning algorithms versus data science and the statistical modeling process The components of Revolution R Enterprise, and the Revolution Analytics partner ecosystem You can catch the 15-minute interview in the BBBT audio podcast linked below. Boulder BI Brain Trust podcasts: David Smith, VP, Marketing and Community 

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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