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Web data mining is so due for a renaissance. At big companies, purge rules eliminate old data to save on storage costs. At startups the focus is always on getti
by colins_pride 18y ago
Web data mining is so due for a renaissance. At big companies, purge rules eliminate old data to save on storage costs. At startups the focus is always on getting a product out, adding features & getting users. When guys start figuring out how to tease real value out of the data, this is going to snowball. And R is the right platform for figuring it out.
- davidw 18y agoHow so? Can you elaborate?
- colins_pride 18y agoSure; I'm assuming you're asking about my assertion that "R is the right platform ... " I've used S-PLUS fairly extensively, and I think there's a lot in common between R and S-PLUS. But R doesn't have the licensing constraints, which makes all of the difference in the world. To me, R represents a good high-level prototyping language with a very extensive native statistical library. I would also add that I'm much more attached to the idea that web data mining is the future, than I am attached to the idea that R is the best platform. We'll see what happens!
- joeyo 18y agoI think there's a lot in common between R and S-PLUS. Indeed. R is sometimes called "GNU S".
- zacharypinter 18y agoThat would probably be easier to search for...
- lrajlich 18y agoR is essentially an open source S-Plus implementation. S-Plus licensing can be an issue, particularly when you are running on a cluster. I worked at a place that used S-Plus and they had a to limit the number of S-Plus slots to run jobs against because of licensing.