The R statistical programming language is gaining popularity as developers scramble to meet the Big Data skills shortage, with one new report proclaiming it's "on its way to the top 10." "Thanks to ...

Hewlett-Packard has devised a way to run programs written in the R statistical programming language against ... “Historically, big data has been focused on the past,” said Jeff Veis, HP ...

Suresh has benchmarked statistical programming language R's fread ... of loading data in Julia and also indicate the performance of Julia code during data analysis. One of the example benchmarks ...

Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics, a commercial provider of services for the open source R programming ... the largest data warehouses and Hadoop systems,” he adds. “For example, by ...

The first global conference on Big Data was organized in Beijing in October 2014. It showcased a variety of examples of Big Data projects for official statistics, such as mobile phone data for ...