
The R Project
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Douglas Merrill , former CIO/VP of Engineering at Google, writes in Forbes about using the R language for data analysis: Most folks with math-oriented graduate degrees will have written something in R, a non-commercial option for your big data analysis. So, great graduates from great graduate schools know great tools. His post is titled 'R Is Not Enough For "Big Data" ', and you might be surprised to learn that I agree that title, although for a different reason. Douglas's point — and it's a valid one — is that simply pumping data through any software tool, without an understanding of the problem you're trying to solve and how statistical models apply to it, can lead to getting the wrong answers to the wrong questions:

