Applications of R in Business Competition
Revolution Analytics is proud to announce the winners of the inaugural Applications of R in Business competition, which offered a total of $20,000 in cash prizes to the best examples of applying the R statistics language to real-world business problems.
The top prizes were selected by a panel of independent judges: Edd Dumbill, Chair of O'Reilly's Strata Conference and writer for O'Reilly Media; David Menninger, VP and Research Director at Ventana Research; Steve Miller, technology writer and co-founder of OpenBI LLC; David White, Senior Research Analyst at Aberdeen Group; and Hadley Wickham, R package author and professor at Rice University. Based on the judges’ aggregate scores, the winners are:
Grand Prize - $10,000 Shannon Terry and Ben Ogorek, Nationwide Insurance (USA) |
Runner Up Prize - $5,000 Jeffrey Breen, Atmosphere Research Group (USA) |
The following entries were selected for Honorable Mention prizes by Revolution Analytics: |
Honorable Mention - $1,000 Hakan Koç and Bengt Maas, Salzgitter Mannesmann Forschung GmbH (Germany) |
Honorable Mention - $1,000 Imre Kocsis, Kristóf Gáti, András Pataricza, and Gábor Horváth, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary) |
Honorable Mention - $1,000 Stephen D. Simon, P.Mean Consulting / University of Missouri-Kansas City (USA) |
Honorable Mention - $1,000 Shannon Terry and Ben Ogorek, Nationwide Insurance (USA) |
Honorable Mention - $1,000 Yihui Xie, PhD Candidate at Department of Statistics, Iowa State University (USA) |
Learn more about the winning entries in the slide show below:
Here at Revolution Analytics, we’d like to thank all of the data scientists who participated in our first R in Business competition and congratulate the winners. Each of the applications selected demonstrates how predictive analytics with R goes well beyond traditional business intelligence to empower business decision-makers to evaluate critical success factors within important business processes early and often. We see from the winning entries that a wide variety of industries and processes – from marketing, heavy manufacturing, clinical trial design, and IT project management all share a need for ongoing predictive analysis. Revolution Analytics delivers the only R-based enterprise analytics framework, and by examining undiscovered applications of the R language, Revolution Analytics can further refine R tools to meet all organizations’ deep analysis needs.
More information about R:
- Learn about open-source R and Revolution R Enterprise
- Read about the R phenomenon in the whitepaper ‘Why R is Hot’
- Track the global use of R on theRevolutions blog
- Download Revolution R Enterprise, free to members of the academic community