{"id":3085,"date":"2012-08-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2325498"},"modified":"2012-08-12T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T10:00:00","slug":"the-r-language-big-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-r-language-big-data\/","title":{"rendered":"The R Language &amp; Big Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KDnuggets recently posted its annual poll on data mining software, and the R language retains its #1 ranking as the most commonly-used software for data mining: R is now used by 52.5% of poll respondents, compared with 45% last year. Donnie Berkholz provides an analysis of the year-on-year trends for Redmonk. He provides the chart below, and notes &#8220;the general trend of newer, open-source languages growing at varying speeds (Python followed by R and Hadoop-based options like Hive\/Pig), while older languages including Java, SAS, and Matlab are bleeding users&#8221;. Meanwhile, the recently-released Rexer Analytics 2011 Data Miner Survey also ranks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>            David Smith<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2325498\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KDnuggets recently posted its annual poll on data mining software, and the R language retains its #1 ranking as the most commonly-used software for data mining: R is now used by 52.5% of poll respondents, compared with 45% last year. Donnie Berkholz pr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}