Episode 14 was quite a blast.  We talk about the popularity of R, and new, ambitious and heavily hyped projects by Stephen Wolfram and Stephen Friend

Show notes

How Google and Facebook use R

MachetEC2 is an EC2 AMI for data analysis

Stephen Wolfram’s Wolfram|Alpha promises to impact the way we query data and look for information.

“Sage” is a $5 mil funded organization founded by (former) Merck’s Stephen Friend and Eric Schadt to create a scientific commons platform to do better genomics inspired drug discovery research

We talk about the great success of Galaxy Zoo and how the next phase of the project is using Amazon Web Services to scale better

Mendeley aims to be the “Last.fm of Research papers” according to Ricardo Vidal, who recently signed on as community Liaison

Links of the week

Hari continues with his python kick with Scipy.org

Deepak was checking out freemat.org an open source matlab clone that packs quite a punch

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