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Danese Cooper, who spent more than three years as senior director of Intel’s open-source strategies, has taken a similar job at Revolution Computing, a start-up that’s commercializing the open-source R programming technology for data analysis.
Cooper, who took on the title of open-source diva at Sun Microsystems before her stint at Intel, plans to help Revolution [...]

A January New York Times article on the R open-source statistical programming environment catalysed a change in attitude at SAS, the largest independent BI and analytics vendor. In just one month, SAS’s position swerved from disdain — the Times quoted Anne H. Milley, SAS director of technology product marketing, as opining, “We have customers who [...]

To some people R is just the 18th letter of the alphabet. To others, it’s the rating on racy movies, a measure of an attic’s insulation or what pirates in movies say.
R is also the name of a popular programming language used by a growing number of data analysts inside corporations and academia. It is [...]

The SAS Institute has borrowed a page from Sesame Street. It is now sponsoring the letter ‘R.’
Last month, I wrote an article about the rising popularity of the R programming language. The open-source software has turned into a favorite piece of technology for statisticians and other people looking to pull insights out of data.
On several [...]