Revolution Analytics and Allstate to Discuss Statistical Modeling at O'Reilly Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2012
Revolution Analytics to also Showcase Commercial-Grade Analytics Software at the IBM Information on Demand Conference and at the Teradata PARTNERS User Group Conference & Expo
PALO ALTO, Calif.—October 18, 2012—Revolution Analytics, the leading commercial provider of software, services and support for the open source R project, today announced that Marketing Manager Joe Rickert will lead a customer case study presentation with Allstate Principal Predictive Modeler Steve Yun at the O’Reilly Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2012. The event will take place at the New York Hilton and Sheraton New York Towers in New York City from October 23-25, 2012.
Revolution Analytics also announced that it will showcase Revolution R Enterprise 6.0, its commercial-grade analytics software, at the IBM Information on Demand conference and at the Teradata PARTNERS User Group Conference & Expo. The events will take place October 21-25, 2012, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas and at the Gaylord National Resort in Washington, D.C. respectively.
At the O’Reilly Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2012 event on October 25, Rickert and Yun will deliver a case study presentation on statistical modeling in the insurance industry. They will examine the differences and trade-offs between working in a Hadoop cluster versus a dynamic R environment. They will also weigh the benefits and shortcomings of both approaches and discuss a range of technologies, include programming a Hadoop cluster from R using the RHadoop interface and the RevoScaleR package from Revolution Analytics.
What: Case Study Presentation: “Start Small Before Going Big”
Who: Joseph Rickert, Revolution Analytics, and Steve Yun, Allstate
When: October 25, 2012, at 10:50 a.m. EDT
Where: The Gramercy Suite of the New York Hilton, 1335 6th Avenue, New York
To schedule a briefing with one of the company’s experts at any these events, please e-mail revolutionanalytics@schwartzmsl.com.
About Revolution Analytics
Revolution Analytics is the leading commercial provider of software and services based on the open source R project for statistical computing. The company brings high performance, productivity and enterprise readiness to R, the most powerful statistics language in the world. The company’s flagship Revolution R Enterprise product is designed to meet the production needs of large organizations in industries such as finance, life sciences, retail, manufacturing and media. Used by over two million analysts in academia and at cutting-edge companies such as Google, Bank of America and Acxiom, R has emerged as the standard of innovation in statistical analysis. Revolution Analytics is committed to fostering the continued growth of the R community through sponsorship of the Inside-R.org community site, funding worldwide R user groups and offering free licenses of Revolution R Enterprise to everyone in academia.
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