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Dec. 14, 2012 | by Edward Farragher An Introduction to R

“R is taking over the world.  It’s R.  There’s no debate anymore.” These are the words of William Beckler, the “Director of Innovation” at lastminute.com; talking at the Big Data Innovation in London earlier this year. R is a programming …
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Nov. 09, 2012 | by Edward Farragher Do People Still Use RSS Feeds?

The digital world is constantly evolving.  We have recently seen the release of Microsoft’s Windows 8, the iPhone 5 hitting the market, and a fierce escalation in the battle between natural search optimisers and the Google Zoo. We have also …
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Nov. 08, 2012 | by Sam Zindel Obama’s Big Data Election Victory

Tim Berners Lee once said – “It’s difficult to imagine the power that you’re going to have when so many different sorts of data are available” Well there aren’t many people that are more powerful than the President of the …
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Oct. 08, 2012 | by Edward Farragher Fantasy football – linear programming in Excel

The term ‘LP’ can have a number of meanings; ‘Linguistic Profile’, ‘long play record’, or for those who have studied certain disciplines of mathematics; ‘linear programming’. Linear programming is a method which involves optimising a mathematical function subject to certain …
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Oct. 04, 2012 | by Gregory Lyons Facebook has hit the BILLION!

This morning Facebook announced that on the 14th of September 2012 they finally hit the Billion active user mark.  Unfortunately this does make me 14 days out in my August prediction but an impressive feat by Facebook nonetheless.  Alongside the announcement they released a …
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