For years, geneticist Helene Royo used commercial software to analyse her work. She would extract DNA from the developing sperm cells of mice, send it for analysis and then fire up a package called ...

David Gerbing, Ph.D, from Portland State University, explores professional, interactive data visualization for everyone ...

The table below shows my favorite go-to R packages for data import, wrangling, visualization and analysis — plus a few miscellaneous tasks tossed in. The package names in the table are clickable if ...

Software engineering applications are practically unlimited. In fact, software engineering has grown so fast in the last several decades that it has become tightly connected with all other areas of ...

Hortonworks Inc. Chief Executive Rob Bearden grabs a napkin off the hotel conference room table at the San Jose Marriott and scrawls a bell curve to illustrate the typical adoption pattern for new ...