I took some online courses in data mining last year at statistics.com, some
of which featured R.  I was pleased with it, although I haven't tried to
integrate it in any programming project, and I only scratched the surface.
I also would highly recommend the courses at statistics.com.  Now if I could
just work out the data collection to make use of the data mining techniques
on our library data.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Glen Newton - NRC/CNRC CISTI/ICIST Research
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> >>>>> "William" == William Denton <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>    William> Are any of you using R?  http://www.r-project.org/
>
> I use R for a number of things, including the multidimensional
> scaling (512-->2) I do here:
>
> http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2009/07/project-torngat-building-large-scale.html
>
> It is fast, backed by the stats braniacs, has a huge number of
> domain-specific modules (biology, genomics, geology, engineering,
> ....).
>
> It is great. Slices bread, juliennes fries, casts my votes, does my
> taxes, feeds my dogs and submits my postings to code4lib.  ;-)
>
> -glen
>
>
>
> >>>>> "William" == William Denton <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>
>    William> Are any of you using R?  http://www.r-project.org/
>
>    William>    Blog about R, info viz, etc.:
>    William> http://blog.revolution-computing.com/
>
>    William> I have something in mind I'm going to try fooling around
>    William> with in R, but I wondered if anyone was using it for
>    William> visualizing searches, usage, networks of information,
>    William> that kind of thing.
>
>    William> Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org
>    William> www.frbr.org openfrbr.org
>
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