R: What Is and How Can It Help?
From Loraine Lawson interview with Jeff Erhardt[1].
What is R?
R is an open source statistical programming language. The easiest way to think about it is the largest commercial competitor in the states is a company called SAS, and while it’s not a perfect analogy, one way to think about R is as an open source version of SAS. It’s not perfectly correct, but for people who have not heard of R, that’s one way to explain it.
Where can R help?
- analyzing and gaining meaning from collected data
- developing models and extracting the insight from data
- implementing these analytics within an enterprise and disseminating the knowledge across the enterprise
Now are you ready to bet what will be the data processing platform of tomorrow?
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Jeff Erhardt: COO of Revolution Analytics, the company offering products and services for R ↩
Original title and link: R: What Is and How Can It Help? (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
