Companies, Officials and NGO Using R

In case you need it, a curated list of testimonies / blogposts / packages from entreprises, officials and NGO using R in production and/or for research.

Feel free to contribute.

Airbnb

• Using R packages and education to scale Data Science at Airbnb

• Using googlesheets and mailR packages in R to automate reporting

• How R helps Airbnb make the most of its data

Amazon Web Services

• Containerized applications with R to identify customers who need additional onboarding assistance and to detect fraud

BBC

• Every story in the world has one of theses six basic plots

• Nine facts about how long we live

• How the BBC Visual and Data Journalism team works with graphics in R

Cookbook

! BBC Visual and Data Journalism cookbook for R graphics

Packages

• bbplot - R package that helps create and export ggplot2 charts in the style used by the BBC News data team =======

Booking

• How Booking.com increases the power of online experiments with CUPED

Province of British Columbia

• Content (slide decks etc) from presentations related to use of R (#rstats) in the B.C. government

• Presentation materials from bcgov useR days

• Example repo: CANSIM-dataviewer with the code for the extraction, tabulation, and visualisation of data from Statistics Canada's CANSIM database

Packages

• bcmaps, an R package of map layers for British Columbia

Buzzfeed

• Using BuzzFeed’s listicle format to tell stories with maps and charts

• How Trump’s Tweets Shaped A Year In Politics - The R code

• How A Booming Population And Climate Change Made California’s Wildfires Worse Than Ever

City of Chicago

• Forecasting Chicago's Beach Water Quality

• Behind the Scenes: Foodborne Chicago

Dyson

• Forecasting the expected sales of new models of vacuum cleaners, hand dryers, and other products

Ebay

• How eBay scales R training for a global workforce

The Economist

• The Big Mac index

Facebook

• Visualizing Friendships

• Criss-Crossing the Org Chart — Predicting Colleague Interactions with R

• What’s on your mind?

• Showing Support for Marriage Equality on Facebook

• The Formation of Love

Packages

• Prophet — Forecasting at scale

Financial Time

• Is Russia-Saudi Arabia the worst World Cup game ever?

Kickstarter

• 10,000 Successful Projects

Google

• Large-Scale Parallel Statistical Forecasting Computations in R

• RLint: Reformatting R Code to Follow the Google Style Guide

• R for Marketing Research and Analytics

• RAPPOR: Privacy-Preserving Reporting Algorithms

• Predicting the Present with Google Trends

Packages

• abpackage - An R package for AB testing leveraging pre-period information

• CausalImpact - An R package for causal inference in time series

• MAB — R package for Multi-Armed Bandit Simulation Study

Indiana

• How the State of Indiana uses R and Azure to forecast employment

John Deere

• Order Fulfillment Forecasting at John Deere: How R Facilitates Creativity and Flexibility

Le Parisien

• Everything you need to know about your national football team

Microsoft

• Microsoft R Open

• TrueSkill(TM): A Bayesian Skill Rating System

• What does Microsoft do with R?

• Personalised Marketing at Scale with Propensity Models using R and Spark

Mozilla

• Understanding Private Browsing

N Brown Group

• Analyze online product reviews from customers

Nature

• Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C

New York Times

• The Upshot — A New York Times website with analysis and data visualizations about politics, policy and everyday life.

Netflix

• Moving from prototype to production in R

StackExchange/StackOverflow

• One year as a Data scientist at SO - David Robinson
• Text Mining of Stack Overflow Questions
• Understanding PCA using Shiny and Stack Overflow data
• ne year as a Data scientist at Stack Overflow - Julia Silge

Stitchfix

• R in pRoduction: theRe be dRagons!

• Data Exploration with Weight of Evidence and Information Value in R

Süddeutsche Zeitung

• data journalism with R at Süddeutsche Zeitung

T-Mobile

• Enterprise Web Services with Neural Networks Using R and TensorFlow

• R can API and So Can You!

• Using docker to deploy an R plumber API

USMA

• R in USMA

Twitter

• The geography of Tweets

Packages

• AnomalyDetection R package

Uber

• R at Uber

United Kingdom Government

• Transforming the process of producing official statistics

• Reproducible Analytical Pipelines

Uptake

• Data scientists making their code public? So crazy it just might work
• cran-server: a lightweight, open-source way to run a custom R package server
• pkgnet: R package to analyze R packages with graph theory
• updraft: parallelize processing DAGs in pure R code
• uptasticsearch: an R data frame client for Elasticsearch

Wikimedia

• How we made that net neutrality clickstream diagram

• Wikidata Concepts Monitor (WDCM): R in action across Big Wikidata

Worldbank

• The 2018 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals: an all-new visual guide to data and development