[R] Revolutions blog: May 2018 roundup

[David Smith (CDA)]

Since 2008, Microsoft staff and guests have written about R at the Revolutions
blog (http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com) and every month I post a summary of
articles from the previous month of particular interest to readers of r-help.

In case you missed them, here are some articles related to R from the
month of May:

The R Consortium has announced a new round of grants for projects proposed by
the R community:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/05/r-consortium-spring-2018.html

A look back at the ROpenSci unconference held in Seattle:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/05/reflections-on-the-ropensci-unconference.html

Video of my European R Users Meeting talk, "Speeding up R with Parallel
Programming in the Cloud":
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/05/video-speeding-up-r-foreach.html

Slides from my talk at the Microsoft Build conference, "Open-Source Machine
Learning in Azure":
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/05/open-source-machine-learning-in-azure.html

Discussions on Twitter: R packages by stage of data analysis; thinking
differently about AI development; and, why is package management harder in Python
than R? http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/05/three-twitter-threads.html

Microsoft R Open 3.4.4 is now available:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/04/microsoft-r-open-344-now-available.html

And some general interest stories (not necessarily related to R):

* A really bad road in Nepal:
  http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/05/because-its-friday-bad-road.html

* Our May 2018 roundup of AI and data science news:
  http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/05/ai-roundup-may-2018.html 

* The definitive answer to "Laurel" or "Yanny" (it's Laurel):
  http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/05/because-its-friday-laurel-or-yanny.html

* Panelist Francesca Lazzeri reviews the Mind Bytes AI conference in Chicago:
  http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/05/mind-bytes.html

* A parody of air travel:
  http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/05/because-its-friday-planes-pains-and-automobiles.html

* When magpies attack:
  http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/05/because-its-friday-the-eyes-dont-work.html

As always, thanks for the comments and please keep sending suggestions to
me at davidsmi using microsoft.com or via Twitter (I'm @revodavid).

Cheers,
# David

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David M Smith <davidsmi using microsoft.com>
Developer Advocate, Microsoft Cloud & Enterprise 
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Twitter: @revodavid | Blog:  http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com