R-project is a professional Open Source statistical tool, widely used for academic and business proupose. R itself is a programming language which allows to perform almost any kind of statistical analysis, from simple charts to advanced Data Mining .
It has been a long time since the last post, now I'm in London working on exiting projects for very big companies!
My current project is the design and development of a visual statistical enviroment with R-Project as backend. I hope the company I'm working for will release it as an Open Source tool for complex Data Mining analysis.
Oracle plans to include a complete set of Open Soure tools in its Big Data Appliance solution for data management and data analysis.
The most interesting news is the inclusion of Apache Hadoop and R project, a professional Open Source solution for data analysis and statistics.
R-project, a professional and powerfull statistical software, is also used as Data Mining tool for Text Mining and Social Network Analysis.
This paper covers an example on how to use R project to analyze the content of big mailing lists http://journal.r-project.org/archive/2011-1/RJournal_2011-1_Bohn~et~al.pdf
jStat is a statistical Javascript library which incorporates a number of interesting functions. The library aims to provide advanced statistical analysis directly from the browser. The project is still at the beginning and some features are on active development.
The R project like functions names helps statistician, data mining and business intelligence developers who are confortable with this famous open source statistical software.
RStudio (http://rstudio.org) is a versatile GUI for the statistical (and Data Mining) software R-project, widely used for research and professional prouposes. It can be installed as standalone or web application as the user interface is web based.
