Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Machine Learning with R and SQL 2016 / RevoR + Open Source MSFT

Ginger Grant, Data Platform MVP discusses Machine Learning with R and some Custom Reports for SQL 2016 R Services. 

Everything that exists is an object.
Everything that happens is a function call.

-- John Chambers, Advanced R

Microsoft Open R is the enhanced distribution of R, which provides the ability to create your own enterprise MiniCRAN, reproduce results between package version snapshots, parallelism/multithreading, and is portable across Windows, Linux, and OSX.  Enterprise is constantly looking for stability, and https://mran.microsoft.com/faq/#change-repos provides this with fixed snapshots across all OpenR users.

RStudio hopped on the Jupyter Notebook bandwagon a couple months ago.
http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/r_notebooks.html

In 2017, we will have SQL Server 2016 with Microsoft OpenR and R Notebooks, running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux along with Hortonworks HDP...

Getting Started with PHP 7 SQL Server and Azure SQL Database on Linix Ubuntu with Apache

And something completely unrelated, perhaps useful, Yet Another Network Tester, with multithreading and CPU affinity.
https://github.com/Microsoft/ntttcp-for-linux
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/NTttcp-Version-528-Now-f8b12769

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