Companies Using R

This is a list of companies and organizations who are proud and public about their use of R in their business.

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Asia Capital Reinsurance

Big Data Creates Specific Challenges for Firms Competing in Financial Services Sector

Asia Capital Reinsurance Chooses Revolution DeployR to Analyze Complex Data and Generate Business Insights

ANZ Bank

ANZ Bank and R

ANZ, the fourth largest bank in Australia, using R for credit risk analysis

Benetech

Savng the World with R

Benetech is a non-profit organization contracted by the likes of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to answer thorny geopolitical questions through the use of data and science.

bing

Social Search Awesomeness

Jesse Bridgewater works on "social search awesomeness" for the Bing search engine, and is setting up his dev environment with the necessary tools including python, vim, and R.

CardioDX

Complex Data Sets in Genomic Diagnostics Require Multiple Analytic Methods

Revolution Helps Accelerate Process, Reducing Project Time

Facebook

Facebook and R

Google

Google and R

Lloyds Insurance

Lloyd's Insurance and R

Insurance giant Lloyd's uses motion charts created with R to provide analysis to investors.

KickStarter

Kickstarter and R

Kickstarter, the social funding platform, uses R to visualize its success getting new projects funded.

Marketo

Open Source Analytics Offer Cost-Effective Choice for Marketing Automation Leader

Marketo uses Revolution R Enterprise for Building Prototypes Rapidly & Cost-Effectively

Merck

Merck Optimizes Critical Drug Development with Revolution Analytics' gsDesign Explorer

Promising New Drugs Get to Market Faster and Less Time and Money is Spent on Drugs That Don’t Work
Mozilla

Mozilla and R

Mozilla, the foundation responsible for the Firefox web browser, uses R to visualize Web activity.

Mu Sigma

'Portfolio' Strategy Helps Firm Maintain Leadership Role in Competitive Market

Analytics Outsourcer Leverages Continually Evolving R Library to Stay at the Cutting Edge
New Scientist

NewScientist and R

New Scientist magazine uses for data journalism and for visualization and analysis in news articles.

The New York Times

The New York Times and R

NIST

R's Role in the National Response to the BP Oil Spill

In the early days of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the rate of flow of oil from the spill was of great concern: estimating it accurately was key to coordinating the scale and scope of the response to the emergency.

oDesk

oDesk and R

oDesk uses R to analyze results from experiments and for exploratory data analysis.

OkCupid

Finding your Valentine with R

Free dating site OkCupid (which was recently acquired by match.com) collects a lot of data. With over 3 million members, they have a wealth of information upon which to identify trends about the love lives of a typical OkCupid member.

Orbitz

How Orbitz uses Hadoop and R to Optimize Hotel Search

Positional bias — the tendency for users to preferentially select results in the first few positions of a search — is a big issue for all kinds of search engines.

TechCrunch

TechCrunh and R

Thomas Cook Airlines

Prediction & Fuzzy Logic at Thomas Cook to Automate Price Settings of Last-Minute Offers

Challenges from a data mining point of view + solutions connecting R with the outside world / our user experience

Trulia

Trulia and R

Trulia, the real-estate analysis website, uses R for predicting house prices and local crime.

University of Chicago

Political Scientist Gets Inside the Minds of the GOP with Revolution R Enterprise

University of Chicago’s Boris Shor relies on the powerful Revolution Analytics app to predict election outcomes; Successfully forecast Senator Brown would vote with Democrats in D.C.