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R at Microsoft BUILD conference

June 5, 2015 By editor

R was prominent at last month’s BUILD—Microsoft’s conference for developers.

Corporate Vice President for Machine Learning, Joseph Sirosh, said,

if there is a single language that you choose to learn today…let it be R

His keynote demonstrated a genomic data analysis using Revolution R Enterprise, recently acquired by Microsoft, running on a 1600 core Azure Hadoop cluster.

Microsoft are clearly taking this whole data science thing seriously.

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