In a blog
posted by Microsoft’s Joseph Sirosh, Corporate VP, Machine Learning
announcement was made that Microsoft is going to acquire Revolution Analytics
to help customers find big data value with advanced statistical analysis. By
acquiring Revolution Analytics, Microsoft will boost its team and expertise in
R language, big data and machine learning.
Revolution Analytics is the leading commercial provider of
software and services for R, the world’s most widely used programming language
for statistical computing and predictive analytics.
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