Understanding R with Barbara Fusinska
What do you know about R? While at NDC London, Carl and Richard talked to Barbara Fusinska about her work using R as part of real system. Barbara talks about the role of statistics and machine learning as well as the various tools that make it easier to incorporate into your application. The conversation turns to MatLab and Revolution Analytics language R. R is focused on machine learning, it's not a general purpose language. Think of it as SQL for machine learning - great at the thing it does, but not for everything. And now that Microsoft owns R, you can expect to see it more and more in the .NET development world!
Guests:
Barbara Fusinska
Barbara Fusinska is a software developer and mentor to aspiring developers. Working with a range of different companies, Barbara gained experience with team dynamics. This has lead to her strong belief in shaping a proper working environment. She trusts this allows high-functional teams to reach their full qualities. Alongside building passionate teams, Barbara enjoys collaborating around architectures. Currently speaking at conferences in-between working in London. Tweets at @BasiaFusinska and blogs on http://barbarafusinska.com.
Links:
- Deep Link Dispatch http://nerds.airbnb.com/deeplinkdispatch/
- Revolution Analytics http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/
- MatLab www.mathworks.com
- AzureML https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning/
- R Source Code on GitHub https://github.com/wch/r-source
- Translating Weird R Errors http://www.r-bloggers.com/translating-weird-r-errors/