The community around the R language is the real deal -- not just another feel-good open source contrivance to enable big companies to collaborate on code Once open source became a big deal it was just ...

The R programming language is getting a new dose of big data processing by integrating the open-source Hadoop framework. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and marketing experience ...

Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the analytic data platforms, marketing applications, and services company, today introduced Teradata ® Aster ® R, which extends the power of open source R analytics by lifting ...

Oracle is expanding its support for R, the open-source language for statistical analysis, the company announced Friday. New features include R ports for the Solaris and AIX OSes, adding to existing ...

HP has announced the launch of Haven Predictive Analytics, an open-sourced big data platform that it says will bring more machine learning and statistical analytics power to companies dealing with ...

Thanks to dwindling research budgets and the rising cost of science software, “open science” advocates may be succeeding at getting science to go open source. And it’s thanks in part to a little-known ...

This story contains interviews with David Smith, chief community officer at Revolution Analytics; Casey Herron, data scientist at Revolution Analytics; Tess Nesbitt, director of analytics at DataSong; ...

Open-source research, which started as a counterculture movement in the software industry 15 years ago, has since grown into a business model whose best-known product, Linux, has become a credible ...

Facebook is no stranger when it comes to open sourcing its computing knowledge. Over the years, it has consistently created software and hardware internally, then transferred that wisdom to the open ...