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Top 7 Business Strategy Models
UPDATED POST- Some Models I use for Business Strategy- to analyze the huge reams of qualitative and uncertain data that business generates. I have added a bonus the Business canvas
- Porters 5 forces Model-To analyze industries
- Business Canvas
- BCG Matrix- To analyze Product Portfolios
- Porters Diamond Model- To analyze locations
- McKinsey 7 S Model-To analyze teams
- Gernier Theory- To analyze growth of organization
- Herzberg Hygiene Theory- To analyze soft aspects of individuals
- Marketing Mix Model- To analyze marketing mix.
Analytics 2011 Conference
From http://www.sas.com/events/analytics/us/
The Analytics 2011 Conference Series combines the power of SAS's M2010 Data Mining Conference and F2010 Business Forecasting Conference into one conference covering the latest trends and techniques in the field of analytics. Analytics 2011 Conference Series brings the brightest minds in the field of analytics together with hundreds of analytics practitioners. Join us as these leading conferences change names and locations. At Analytics 2011, you'll learn through a series of case studies, technical presentations and hands-on training. If you are in the field of analytics, this is one conference you can't afford to miss.
Conference Details
October 24-25, 2011
Grande Lakes Resort
Orlando, FL
Analytics 2011 topic areas include:
- Data Mining
- Forecasting
- Text Analytics
- Fraud Detection
- Data Visualization (more…)
Updated Interview Elissa Fink -VP Tableau Software
Here is an interview with Elissa Fink, VP Marketing of that new wonderful software called Tableau that makes data visualization so nice and easy to learn and work with.
Ajay- Describe your career journey from high school to over 20 plus years in marketing. What are the various trends that you have seen come and go in marketing.
Elissa- I studied literature and linguistics in college and didn't discover analytics until my first job selling advertising for the Wall Street Journal. Oddly enough, the study of linguistics is not that far from decision analytics: they both are about taking a structured view of information and trying to see and understand common patterns. At the Journal, I was completely captivated analyzing and comparing readership data. At the same time, the idea of using computers in marketing was becoming more common. I knew that the intersection of technology and marketing was going to radically change things – how we understand consumers, how we market and sell products, and how we engage with customers. So from that point on, I've always been focused on technology and marketing, whether it's working as a marketer at technology companies or applying technology to marketing problems for other types of companies. There have been so many interesting trends. Taking a long view, a key trend I've noticed is how marketers work to understand, influence and motivate consumer behavior. We've moved marketing from where it was primarily unpredictable, qualitative and aimed at talking to mass audiences, where the advertising agency was king. Now it's a discipline that is more data-driven, quantitative and aimed at conversations with individuals, where the best analytics wins. As with any trend, the pendulum swings far too much to either side causing backlashes but overall, I think we are in a great place now. We are using data-driven analytics to understand consumer behavior. But pure analytics is not the be-all, end-all; good marketing has to rely on understanding human emotions, intuition and gut feel – consumers are far from rational so taking only a rational or analytical view of them will never explain everything we need to know.
Ajay- Do you think technology companies are still predominantly dominated by men . How have you seen diversity evolve over the years. What initiatives has Tableau taken for both hiring and retaining great talent.
Elissa- The thing I love about the technology industry is that its key success metrics – inventing new products that rapidly gain mass adoption in pursuit of making profit – are fairly objective. There's little subjective nature to the counting of dollars collected selling a product and dollars spent building a product. So if a female can deliver a better product and bigger profits faster and better, then that female is going to get the resources, jobs, power and authority to do exactly that. That's not to say that the technology industry is gender-blind, race-blind, etc. It isn't – technology is far from perfect. For example, the industry doesn't have enough diversity in positions of power. But I think overall, in comparison to a lot of other industries, it's pretty darn good at giving people with great ideas the opportunities to realize their visions regardless of their backgrounds or characteristics.
At Tableau, we are very serious about bringing in and developing talented people – they are the key to our growth and success. Hiring is our #1 initiative so we've spent a lot of time and energy both on finding great candidates and on making Tableau a place that they want to work. This includes things like special recruiting events, employee referral programs, a flexible work environment, fun social events, and the rewards of working for a start-up. Probably our biggest advantage is the company itself – working with people you respect on amazing, cutting-edge products that delight customers and are changing the world is all too rare in the industry but a reality at Tableau. One of our senior software developers put it best when he wrote "The emphasis is on working smarter rather than longer: family and friends are why we work, not the other way around. Tableau is all about happy, energized employees executing at the highest level and delivering a highly usable, high quality, useful product to our customers." People who want to be at a place like that should check out our openings at http://www.tableausoftware.com/jobs.
Ajay- What are most notable features in tableau's latest edition. What are the principal software that competes with Tableau Software products and how would you say Tableau compares with them.
Elissa- Tableau 6.1 will be out in July and we are really excited about it for 3 reasons.
First, we're introducing our mobile business intelligence capabilities. Our customers can have Tableau anywhere they need it. When someone creates an interactive dashboard or analytical application with Tableau and it's viewed on a mobile device, an iPad in particular, the viewer will have a native, touch-optimized experience. No trying to get your fingertips to act like a mouse. And the author didn't have to create anything special for the iPad; she just creates her analytics the usual way in Tableau. Tableau knows the dashboard is being viewed on an iPad and presents an optimized experience.
Second, we've take our in-memory analytics engine up yet another level. Speed and performance are faster and now people can update data incrementally rapidly. Introduced in 6.0, our data engine makes any data fast in just a few clicks. We don't run out of memory like other applications. So if I build an incredible dashboard on my 8-gig RAM PC and you try to use it on your 2-gig RAM laptop, no problem.
And, third, we're introducing more features for the international markets – including French and German versions of Tableau Desktop along with more international mapping options. It's because we are constantly innovating particularly around user experience that we can compete so well in the market despite our relatively small size. Gartner's seminal research study about the Business Intelligence market reported a massive market shift earlier this year: for the first time, the ease-of-use of a business intelligence platform was more important than depth of functionality. In other words, functionality that lots of people can actually use is more important than having sophisticated functionality that only specialists can use. Since we focus so heavily on making easy-to-use products that help people rapidly see and understand their data, this is good news for our customers and for us.
Ajay- Cloud computing is the next big thing with everyone having a cloud version of their software. So how would you run Cloud versions of Tableau Server (say deploying it on an Amazon Ec2 or a private cloud)
Elissa- In addition to the usual benefits espoused about Cloud computing, the thing I love best is that it makes data and information more easily accessible to more people. Easy accessibility and scalability are completely aligned with Tableau's mission. Our free product Tableau Public and our product for commercial websites Tableau Digital are two Cloud-based products that deliver data and interactive analytics anywhere. People often talk about large business intelligence deployments as having thousands of users. With Tableau Public and Tableau Digital, we literally have millions of users. We're serving up tens of thousands of visualizations simultaneously – talk about accessibility and scalability! We have lots of customers connecting to databases in the Cloud and running Tableau Server in the Cloud. It's actually not complex to set up. In fact, we focus a lot of resources on making installation and deployment easy and fast, whether it's in the cloud, on premise or what have you. We don't want people to have spend weeks or months on massive roll-out projects. We want it to be minutes, hours, maybe a day or 2. With the Cloud, we see that people can get started and get results faster and easier than ever before. And that's what we're about.
Ajay- Describe some of the latest awards that Tableau has been wining. Also how is Tableau helping universities help address the shortage of Business Intelligence and Big Data professionals.
Elissa-Tableau has been very fortunate. Lately, we've been acknowledged by both Gartner and IDC as the fastest growing business intelligence software vendor in the world. In addition, our customers and Tableau have won multiple distinctions including InfoWorld Technology Leadership awards, Inc 500, Deloitte Fast 500, SQL Server Magazine Editors' Choice and Community Choice awards, Data Hero awards, CODiEs, American Business Awards among others. One area we're very passionate about is academia, participating with professors, students and universities to help build a new generation of professionals who understand how to use data. Data analysis should not be exclusively for specialists. Everyone should be able to see and understand data, whatever their background. We come from academic roots, having been spun out of a Stanford research project. Consequently, we strongly believe in supporting universities worldwide and offer 2 academic programs. The first is Tableau For Teaching, where any professor can request free term-length licenses of Tableau for academic instruction during his or her courses. And, we offer a low-cost Student Edition of Tableau so that students can choose to use Tableau in any of their courses at any time.
Elissa Fink, VP Marketing,Tableau Software
Elissa Fink is Tableau Software's Vice President of Marketing. With 20+ years helping companies improve their marketing operations through applied data analysis, Elissa has held executive positions in marketing, business strategy, product management, and product development. Prior to Tableau, Elissa was EVP Marketing at IXI Corporation, now owned by Equifax. She has also served in executive positions at Tele Atlas (acquired by TomTom), TopTier Software (acquired by SAP), and Nielsen/Claritas. Elissa also sold national advertising for the Wall Street Journal. She's a frequent speaker and has spoken at conferences including the DMA, the NCDM, Location Intelligence, the AIR National Forum and others. Elissa is a graduate of Santa Clara University and holds an MBA in Marketing and Decision Systems from the University of Southern California.
Elissa first discovered Tableau late one afternoon at her previous company. Three hours later, she was still "at play" with her data. "After just a few minutes using the product, I was getting answers to questions that were taking my company's programmers weeks to create. It was instantly obvious that Tableau was on a special mission with something unique to offer the world. I just had to be a part of it."
To know more – read at http://www.tableausoftware.com/
and existing data viz at http://www.tableausoftware.com/learn/gallery
Storm seasons: measuring and tracking key indicators
What's happening with local real estate prices?
How are sales opportunities shaping up?
Identify your best performing products
Applying user-defined parameters to provide context
Not all tech companies are rocket ships
What's really driving the economy?
Considering factors and industry influencers
The complete orbit along the inside, or around a fixed circle
How early do you have to be at the airport?
What happens if sales grow but so does customer churn?
What are the trends for new retail locations?
How have student choices changed?
Do patients who disclose their HIV status recover better?
Closer look at where gas prices swing in areas of the U.S.
U.S. Census data shows more women of greater age
Where do students come from and how does it affect their grades?
Tracking customer service effectiveness
Comparing national and local test scores
What factors correlate with high overall satisfaction ratings?
Fund inflows largely outweighed outflows well after the bubble
Which programs are competing for federal stimulus dollars?
Oil prices and volatility
A classic candlestick chart
How do oil, gold and CPI relate to the GDP growth rate?
Interview Anne Milley JMP
Here is an interview with Anne Milley, a notable thought leader in the world of analytics. Anne is now Senior Director, Analytical Strategy in Product Marketing for JMP , the leading data visualization software from the SAS Institute.
Ajay-What do you think are the top 5 unique selling points of JMP compared to other statistical software in its category?
JMP combines incredible analytic depth and breadth with interactive data visualization, creating a unique environment optimized for discovery and data-driven innovation.
With an extensible framework using JSL (JMP Scripting Language), and integration with SAS, R, and Excel, JMP becomes your analytic hub.
JMP is accessible to all kinds of users. A novice analyst can dig into an interactive report delivered by a custom JMP application. An engineer looking at his own data can use built-in JMP capabilities to discover patterns, and a developer can write code to extend JMP for herself or others.
State-of-the-art DOE capabilities make it easy for anyone to design and analyze efficient experiments to determine which adjustments will yield the greatest gains in quality or process improvement – before costly changes are made.
Not to mention, JMP products are exceptionally well designed and easy to use. See for yourself and check out the free trial at www.jmp.com.
Ajay- What are the challenges and opportunities of expanding JMP's market share? Do you see JMP expanding its conferences globally to engage global audiences?
We realized solid global growth in 2010. The release of JMP Pro and JMP Clinical last year along with continuing enhancements to the rest of the JMP family of products (JMP and JMP Genomics) should position us well for another good year.
With the growing interest in analytics as a means to sustained value creation, we have the opportunity to help people along their analytic journey – to get started, take the next step, or adopt new paradigms speeding their time to value. The challenge is doing that as fast as we would like.
We are hiring internationally to offer even more events, training and academic programs globally.
Ajay- What are the current and proposed educational and global academic initiatives of JMP? How can we see more JMP in universities across the world (say India- China etc)?
We view colleges and universities both as critical incubators of future JMP users and as places where attitudes about data analysis and statistics are formed. We believe that a positive experience in learning statistics makes a person more likely to eventually want and need a product like JMP.
For most students – and particularly for those in applied disciplines of business, engineering and the sciences – the ability to make a statistics course relevant to their primary area of study fosters a positive experience. Fortunately, there is a trend in statistical education toward a more applied, data-driven approach, and JMP provides a very natural environment for both students and researchers.
Its user-friendly navigation, emphasis on data visualization and easy access to the analytics behind the graphics make JMP a compelling alternative to some of our more traditional competitors.
We've seen strong growth in the education markets in the last few years, and JMP is now used in nearly half of the top 200 universities in the US.
Internationally, we are at an earlier stage of market development, but we are currently working with both JMP and SAS country offices and their local academic programs to promote JMP. For example, we are working with members of the JMP China office and faculty at several universities in China to support the use of JMP in the development of a master's curriculum in Applied Statistics there, touched on in this AMSTAT News article.
Ajay- What future trends do you see for 2011 in this market (say top 5)?
Growing complexity of data (text, image, audio…) drives the need for more and better visualization and analysis capabilities to make sense of it all.
More "chief analytics officers" are making better use of analytic talent – people are the most important ingredient for success!
JMP has been on the vanguard of 64-bit development, and users are now catching up with us as 64-bit machines become more common.
Users should demand easy-to-use, exploratory and predictive modeling tools as well as robust tools to experiment and learn to help them make the best decisions on an ongoing basis.
All these factors and more fuel the need for the integration of flexible, extensible tools with popular analytic platforms.
Ajay-You enjoy organic gardening as a hobby. How do you think hobbies and unwind time help people be better professionals?
I am lucky to work with so many people who view their work as a hobby. They have other interests too, though, some of which are work-related (statistics is relevant everywhere!). Organic gardening helps me put things in perspective and be present in the moment. More than work defines who you are. You can be passionate about your work as well as passionate about other things. I think it's important to spend some leisure time in ways that bring you joy and contribute to your overall wellbeing and outlook.
Btw, nice interviews over the past several months—I hadn't kept up, but will check it out more often!
Biography- Source- http://www.sas.com/knowledge-exchange/business-analytics/biographies.html
Anne Milley
Anne Milley is Senior Director of Analytics Strategy at JMP Product Marketing at SAS. Her ties to SAS began with bank failure prediction at Federal Home Loan Bank Dallas and continued at 7-Eleven Inc. She has authored papers and served on committees for F2006, KDD, SIAM, A2010 and several years of SAS' annual data mining conference. Milley is a contributing faculty member for the International Institute of Analytics. email@example.com
So what's new in R 2.12.0
and as per http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/NEWS
the answer is plenty is new in the newR.
While you and me, were busy writing and reading blogs, or generally writing code for earning more money, or our own research- Uncle Peter D and his band of merry men have been really busy in a much more upgraded R.
NEW FEATURES: • Reading a packages's CITATION file now defaults to ASCII rather than Latin-1: a package with a non-ASCII CITATION file should declare an encoding in its DESCRIPTION file and use that encoding for the CITATION file. • difftime() now defaults to the "tzone" attribute of "POSIXlt" objects rather than to the current timezone as set by the default for the tz argument. (Wish of PR#14182.) • pretty() is now generic, with new methods for "Date" and "POSIXt" classes (based on code contributed by Felix Andrews). • unique() and match() are now faster on character vectors where all elements are in the global CHARSXP cache and have unmarked encoding (ASCII). Thanks to Matthew Dowle for suggesting improvements to the way the hash code is generated in unique.c. • The enquote() utility, in use internally, is exported now. • .C() and .Fortran() now map non-zero return values (other than NA_LOGICAL) for logical vectors to TRUE: it has been an implicit assumption that they are treated as true. • The print() methods for "glm" and "lm" objects now insert linebreaks in long calls in the same way that the print() methods for "summary.[g]lm" objects have long done. This does change the layout of the examples for a number of packages, e.g. MASS. (PR#14250) • constrOptim() can now be used with method "SANN". (PR#14245) It gains an argument hessian to be passed to optim(), which allows all the ... arguments to be intended for f() and grad(). (PR#14071) • curve() now allows expr to be an object of mode "expression" as well as "call" and "function". • The "POSIX[cl]t" methods for Axis() have been replaced by a single method for "POSIXt". There are no longer separate plot() methods for "POSIX[cl]t" and "Date": the default method has been able to handle those classes for a long time. This _inter alia_ allows a single date-time object to be supplied, the wish of PR#14016. The methods had a different default ("") for xlab. • Classes "POSIXct", "POSIXlt" and "difftime" have generators .POSIXct(), .POSIXlt() and .difftime(). Package authors are advised to make use of them (they are available from R 2.11.0) to proof against planned future changes to the classes. The ordering of the classes has been changed, so "POSIXt" is now the second class. See the document 'Updating packages for changes in R 2.12.x' on for the consequences for a handful of CRAN packages. • The "POSIXct" method of as.Date() allows a timezone to be specified (but still defaults to UTC). • New list2env() utility function as an inverse of as.list() and for fast multi-assign() to existing environment. as.environment() is now generic and uses list2env() as list method. • There are several small changes to output which 'zap' small numbers, e.g. in printing quantiles of residuals in summaries from "lm" and "glm" fits, and in test statisics in print.anova(). • Special names such as "dim", "names", etc, are now allowed as slot names of S4 classes, with "class" the only remaining exception. • File .Renviron can have architecture-specific versions such as .Renviron.i386 on systems with sub-architectures. • installed.packages() has a new argument subarch to filter on sub-architecture. • The summary() method for packageStatus() now has a separate print() method. • The default summary() method returns an object inheriting from class "summaryDefault" which has a separate print() method that calls zapsmall() for numeric/complex values. • The startup message now includes the platform and if used, sub-architecture: this is useful where different (sub-)architectures run on the same OS. • The getGraphicsEvent() mechanism now allows multiple windows to return graphics events, through the new functions setGraphicsEventHandlers(), setGraphicsEventEnv(), and getGraphicsEventEnv(). (Currently implemented in the windows() and X11() devices.) • tools::texi2dvi() gains an index argument, mainly for use by R CMD Rd2pdf. It avoids the use of texindy by texinfo's texi2dvi >= 1.157, since that does not emulate 'makeindex' well enough to avoid problems with special characters (such as (, {, !) in indices. • The ability of readLines() and scan() to re-encode inputs to marked UTF-8 strings on Windows since R 2.7.0 is extended to non-UTF-8 locales on other OSes. • scan() gains a fileEncoding argument to match read.table(). • points() and lines() gain "table" methods to match plot(). (Wish of PR#10472.) • Sys.chmod() allows argument mode to be a vector, recycled along paths. • There are |, & and xor() methods for classes "octmode" and "hexmode", which work bitwise. • Environment variables R_DVIPSCMD, R_LATEXCMD, R_MAKEINDEXCMD, R_PDFLATEXCMD are no longer used nor set in an R session. (With the move to tools::texi2dvi(), the conventional environment variables LATEX, MAKEINDEX and PDFLATEX will be used. options("dvipscmd") defaults to the value of DVIPS, then to "dvips".) • New function isatty() to see if terminal connections are redirected. • summaryRprof() returns the sampling interval in component sample.interval and only returns in by.self data for functions with non-zero self times. • print(x) and str(x) now indicate if an empty list x is named. • install.packages() and remove.packages() with lib unspecified and multiple libraries in .libPaths() inform the user of the library location used with a message rather than a warning. • There is limited support for multiple compressed streams on a file: all of [bgx]zfile() allow streams to be appended to an existing file, but bzfile() reads only the first stream. • Function person() in package utils now uses a given/family scheme in preference to first/middle/last, is vectorized to handle an arbitrary number of persons, and gains a role argument to specify person roles using a controlled vocabulary (the MARC relator terms). • Package utils adds a new "bibentry" class for representing and manipulating bibliographic information in enhanced BibTeX style, unifying and enhancing the previously existing mechanisms. • A bibstyle() function has been added to the tools package with default JSS style for rendering "bibentry" objects, and a mechanism for registering other rendering styles. • Several aspects of the display of text help are now customizable using the new Rd2txt_options() function. options("help_text_width") is no longer used. • Added \href tag to the Rd format, to allow hyperlinks to URLs without displaying the full URL. • Added \newcommand and \renewcommand tags to the Rd format, to allow user-defined macros. • New toRd() generic in the tools package to convert objects to fragments of Rd code, and added "fragment" argument to Rd2txt(), Rd2HTML(), and Rd2latex() to support it. • Directory R_HOME/share/texmf now follows the TDS conventions, so can be set as a texmf tree ('root directory' in MiKTeX parlance). • S3 generic functions now use correct S4 inheritance when dispatching on an S4 object. See ?Methods, section on "Methods for S3 Generic Functions†for recommendations and details. • format.pval() gains a ... argument to pass arguments such as nsmall to format(). (Wish of PR#9574) • legend() supports title.adj. (Wish of PR#13415) • Added support for subsetting "raster" objects, plus assigning to a subset, conversion to a matrix (of colour strings), and comparisons (== and !=). • Added a new parseLatex() function (and related functions deparseLatex() and latexToUtf8()) to support conversion of bibliographic entries for display in R. • Text rendering of \itemize in help uses a Unicode bullet in UTF-8 and most single-byte Windows locales. • Added support for polygons with holes to the graphics engine. This is implemented for the pdf(), postscript(), x11(type="cairo"), windows(), and quartz() devices (and associated raster formats), but not for x11(type="Xlib") or xfig() or pictex(). The user-level interface is the polypath() function in graphics and grid.path() in grid. • File NEWS is now generated at installation with a slightly different format: it will be in UTF-8 on platforms using UTF-8, and otherwise in ASCII. There is also a PDF version, NEWS.pdf, installed at the top-level of the R distribution. • kmeans(x, 1) now works. Further, kmeans now returns between and total sum of squares. • arrayInd() and which() gain an argument useNames. For arrayInd, the default is now false, for speed reasons. • As is done for closures, the default print method for the formula class now displays the associated environment if it is not the global environment. • A new facility has been added for inserting code into a package without re-installing it, to facilitate testing changes which can be selectively added and backed out. See ?insertSource. • New function readRenviron to (re-)read files in the format of ~/.Renviron and Renviron.site. • require() will now return FALSE (and not fail) if loading the package or one of its dependencies fails. • aperm() now allows argument perm to be a character vector when the array has named dimnames (as the results of table() calls do). Similarly, array() allows MARGIN to be a character vector. (Based on suggestions of Michael Lachmann.) • Package utils now exports and documents functions aspell_package_Rd_files() and aspell_package_vignettes() for spell checking package Rd files and vignettes using Aspell, Ispell or Hunspell. • Package news can now be given in Rd format, and news() prefers these inst/NEWS.Rd files to old-style plain text NEWS or inst/NEWS files. • New simple function packageVersion(). • The PCRE library has been updated to version 8.10. • The standard Unix-alike terminal interface declares its name to readline as 'R', so that can be used for conditional sections in ~/.inputrc files. • 'Writing R Extensions' now stresses that the standard sections in .Rd files (other than \alias, \keyword and \note) are intended to be unique, and the conversion tools now drop duplicates with a warning. The .Rd conversion tools also warn about an unrecognized type in a \docType section. • ecdf() objects now have a quantile() method. • format() methods for date-time objects now attempt to make use of a "tzone" attribute with "%Z" and "%z" formats, but it is not always possible. (Wish of PR#14358.) • tools::texi2dvi(file, clean = TRUE) now works in more cases (e.g. where emulation is used and when file is not in the current directory). • New function droplevels() to remove unused factor levels. • system(command, intern = TRUE) now gives an error on a Unix-alike (as well as on Windows) if command cannot be run. It reports a non-success exit status from running command as a warning. On a Unix-alike an attempt is made to return the actual exit status of the command in system(intern = FALSE): previously this had been system-dependent but on POSIX-compliant systems the value return was 256 times the status. • system() has a new argument ignore.stdout which can be used to (portably) ignore standard output. • system(intern = TRUE) and pipe() connections are guaranteed to be avaliable on all builds of R. • Sys.which() has been altered to return "" if the command is not found (even on Solaris). • A facility for defining reference-based S4 classes (in the OOP style of Java, C++, etc.) has been added experimentally to package methods; see ?ReferenceClasses. • The predict method for "loess" fits gains an na.action argument which defaults to na.pass rather than the previous default of na.omit. Predictions from "loess" fits are now named from the row names of newdata. • Parsing errors detected during Sweave() processing will now be reported referencing their original location in the source file. • New adjustcolor() utility, e.g., for simple translucent color schemes. • qr() now has a trivial lm method with a simple (fast) validity check. • An experimental new programming model has been added to package methods for reference (OOP-style) classes and methods. See ?ReferenceClasses. • bzip2 has been updated to version 1.0.6 (bug-fix release). --with-system-bzlib now requires at least version 1.0.6. • R now provides jss.cls and jss.bst (the class and bib style file for the Journal of Statistical Software) as well as RJournal.bib and Rnews.bib, and R CMD ensures that the .bst and .bib files are found by BibTeX. • Functions using the TAR environment variable no longer quote the value when making system calls. This allows values such as tar --force-local, but does require additional quotes in, e.g., TAR = "'/path with spaces/mytar'". DEPRECATED & DEFUNCT: • Supplying the parser with a character string containing both octal/hex and Unicode escapes is now an error. • File extension .C for C++ code files in packages is now defunct. • R CMD check no longer supports configuration files containing Perl configuration variables: use the environment variables documented in 'R Internals' instead. • The save argument of require() now defaults to FALSE and save = TRUE is now deprecated. (This facility is very rarely actually used, and was superseded by the Depends field of the DESCRIPTION file long ago.) • R CMD check --no-latex is deprecated in favour of --no-manual. • R CMD Sd2Rd is formally deprecated and will be removed in R 2.13.0. PACKAGE INSTALLATION: • install.packages() has a new argument libs_only to optionally pass --libs-only to R CMD INSTALL and works analogously for Windows binary installs (to add support for 64- or 32-bit Windows). • When sub-architectures are in use, the installed architectures are recorded in the Archs field of the DESCRIPTION file. There is a new default filter, "subarch", in available.packages() to make use of this. Code is compiled in a copy of the src directory when a package is installed for more than one sub-architecture: this avoid problems with cleaning the sources between building sub-architectures. • R CMD INSTALL --libs-only no longer overrides the setting of locking, so a previous version of the package will be restored unless --no-lock is specified. UTILITIES: • R CMD Rprof|build|check are now based on R rather than Perl scripts. The only remaining Perl scripts are the deprecated R CMD Sd2Rd and install-info.pl (used only if install-info is not found) as well as some maintainer-mode-only scripts. *NB:* because these have been completely rewritten, users should not expect undocumented details of previous implementations to have been duplicated. R CMD no longer manipulates the environment variables PERL5LIB and PERLLIB. • R CMD check has a new argument --extra-arch to confine tests to those needed to check an additional sub-architecture. Its check for "Subdirectory 'inst' contains no files†is more thorough: it looks for files, and warns if there are only empty directories. Environment variables such as R_LIBS and those used for customization can be set for the duration of checking _via_ a file ~/.R/check.Renviron (in the format used by .Renviron, and with sub-architecture specific versions such as ~/.R/check.Renviron.i386 taking precedence). There are new options --multiarch to check the package under all of the installed sub-architectures and --no-multiarch to confine checking to the sub-architecture under which check is invoked. If neither option is supplied, a test is done of installed sub-architectures and all those which can be run on the current OS are used. Unless multiple sub-architectures are selected, the install done by check for testing purposes is only of the current sub-architecture (_via_ R CMD INSTALL --no-multiarch). It will skip the check for non-ascii characters in code or data if the environment variables _R_CHECK_ASCII_CODE_ or _R_CHECK_ASCII_DATA_ are respectively set to FALSE. (Suggestion of Vince Carey.) • R CMD build no longer creates an INDEX file (R CMD INSTALL does so), and --force removes (rather than overwrites) an existing INDEX file. It supports a file ~/.R/build.Renviron analogously to check. 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(PR#13209) • source(echo=TRUE) failed to echo comments that followed the last statement in a file. • S4 classes that contained one of "matrix", "array" or "ts" and also another class now accept superclass objects in new(). Also fixes failure to call validObject() for these classes. • Conditional inheritance defined by argument test in methods::setIs() will no longer be used in S4 method selection (caching these methods could give incorrect results). See ?setIs. • The signature of an implicit generic is now used by setGeneric() when that does not use a definition nor explicitly set a signature. • A bug in callNextMethod() for some examples with "..." in the arguments has been fixed. 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SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS — Texas A&M's Entomology Lab assisted police recently with uncovering evidence leading to an arrest in a 5-year-old double murder case that had gone cold.
Lab staffers used forensic entomology to create a timeline for the murders. The evidence led to the arrest of the prime suspect in the case, who is now behind bars.
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Leading defence QC Donald Findlay yesterday appeared before the Faculty of Advocates' disciplinary tribunal to defend an allegation that he brought the Faculty into disrepute through his remarks during an after dinner speech in Northern Ireland.
Following the event in May 2005, about a month after the death of Pope John Paul II, Mr Findlay was reported in a newspaper as saying to the audience that it was very smoky in the venue, and asking "has another f****** pope died?"
Two individuals had written to the Faculty to complain that the remarks were sectarian and offensive, especially given the history of the troubles in Northern Ireland and in Larne, where the speech was made.
Before the tribunal Mr Findlay said it had not been his intention to cause offence to members of any religion, because the joke had been about the practice of blowing smoke out of a chimney on the election of a new pope, rather than Catholicism itself. He offered an unreserved apology to the two complainers.
Mr Findlay, who describes himself as an atheist, also claimed that under European human rights law he had the right to free speech.
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He did Monday night, and picked an ideal time to play the best game of his two-year NBA career.
Rush scored nine of his career playoff-high 18 points in the fourth quarter on three 3-pointers, and fellow reserve Stanislav Medvedenko added three baskets in the final period as the Lakers pulled away to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 96-90.
The victory enabled the Lakers to win the Western Conference finals 4-2 and earn their fourth NBA Finals berth in five years.
Rush and Medvedenko were unlikely heroes. But with Shaquille O'Neal hampered by foul trouble and Kobe Bryant not playing his typical game, the Lakers needed someone to provide some scoring punch down the stretch.
Future Hall of Famers Karl Malone and Gary Payton weren't the answer, and neither was Fisher. So it was left to Rush and Medvedenko.
"He shot the ball very well. He's one of the key reasons we won the game," O'Neal said of Rush, a first-round draft pick in 2002. "He's one of the best shooters on this team. I'm always on him -- he responds well. I didn't have to get on him much tonight."
Rush, who played 23 minutes including the entire fourth quarter, made his first six 3-pointers before finally missing from long range. He missed his only shot from inside the arc, and had three rebounds and three assists.
"After I hit my first one, I knew it was going to be a good night," Rush said. "They just kept going in for me. Guys were looking for me. Shots were there, and I just continued to take them. Tonight was one of those nights where you think every one is going to go in."
And just about every one did.
"Kareem -- he has a lot of confidence," Bryant said.
Medvedenko made four shots without a miss for eight points while playing seven minutes -- five in the final period.
Rush scored a total of only 11 points in the first five games of the conference finals while playing an average of 12.2 minutes per game. He was averaging only 2.9 points per game in the playoffs.
"I just stayed ready," he said. "I know I didn't get a lot of playing time this series. You know, you've just got to take it for what it is. Guys have been playing well. Fisher has been stepping up. He's been getting the majority of the minutes toward the end. They went small, and Coach threw me in."
Rush's first 3-pointer of the fourth quarter snapped a 68-all tie and put the Lakers ahead for good.
A three-point play by Mark Madsen with 4:13 remaining moved the Timberwolves within five points, but a basket by Medvedenko and a 3-pointer by Rush made it 89-79 with 3:22 left.
The Timberwolves didn't pose a serious threat after that.
O'Neal led the Lakers with 25 points and 11 rebounds despite picking up four fouls in the first half, but was just 7-of-20 from the foul line and played only five minutes in the fourth quarter.
Bryant shot just 6-of-17 while scoring 20 points.
O'Neal picked up his fifth foul with 8:59 left and the Lakers leading 75-72. He asked to be taken out for the first time in the second half less than a minute later.
He came back with 4:56 left, but didn't stay long. With Rush and Medvedenko hitting their shots, it didn't matter.
"Kareem was obviously the story of the game," Lakers coach Phil Jackson said. "He played a game of a career, obviously. We know a lot about his as a shooter. I'm sure not too many people know of that ability that he has. So we encouraged the ballplayers to get the ball to him."
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Ubuntu based multimedia software Dream Studio announced the laest release 11.04. As with other Ubuntu distros, Dream Studio release follows the latest Ubuntu release, this summer Ubuntu 11.04, Natty Narwhal, and includes new changes for the new Unity environment.
So, there is a lot of excitement happening with the new release says,Dick MacInnis, while announcing the release of Dream Studio 11.04. The new version includes all of the earlier greater features and more for the new changes happening with Ubuntu 11.04.
What makes Dream Studio so great?
Dream Studio is a open source software to create sophisticated, stunning graphics, videos, music and great-looking websites. It has several high performance pre-configured applications that this single-package integration of all multimedia functions is what distinguishes Dream Studio from other similar software.
Dream Studio software offers multi-users,"PulseAudio-integrated real-time audio via JACK" functional features. It consists of pre-configured application suite, such as Ardor, Blender, Inkscape, Cinelerra and others.
Cinelerra video editor is venered software for non-linear editing, on the lines of Apples' Final Cut Pro and supports 30 visual effect such as motion tracking, chromakey and several other great features.
There are unique music features such as Hydrogen, along with several drum kits, samplers and synthesizers such as Zynaddsubfx and Bristol, which make this software so complete and capable.
What is new with the DreamStudio 11.04?
If you are beginner or want automatic upgrades of all latest distribution release, the developers have taken care of that with automatic re-enabling and updation.
An important feature is that soon all software will be available on the PPAs enabling faster porting to any architecture and instant upgrade to new release. Newer software backporting will be easier and users looking for LTS will be spared from installing unstable releases for the latest features. Already available is the KXStudio Team PPAs so installing multimedia applications will become even more easy.
The first signification upgrade is of the Blender to 2.59 version with a Ocean Sim patch. Sonic Visualiser and Smasher are introduced here and the excellent MakeHuman makes its debut. It is open source innovative software for modelling 3-Dimensional humanioid characters. It works with high quality mesh, which works with subdivision surface mode, like Zbrush creating a photorealistic character in under two minutes and works wonderfully with Windows to Linux.
Significantly, the latest version has several bug fixes along with new applications.
Available by default is the lowlatency kernel with automatic installation for systems that have more than 3GB RAM. Unity desktop brings new changes and the loss of several common functions like the weather indicator or the workspace indicator are now included in the new version.
To enable ease of installation and removal of software, metapackages are separated. Hence, graphic design meta-packages and photography meta-packages for graphic design, software instruments as well as audio effects enabling better software management.
If graphics and quality video is what you want, then Dream Studio 11.04 is the single software you will require to get the complete professional finish on just your desktop!
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