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A Curated list of R uses in entreprise
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A Curated list of R uses in entreprise
Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/ThinkR-open/companies-using-r
Owner: ThinkR-open
Created: 2018-01-18T11:26:35.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
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        # 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](https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/using-r-packages-and-education-to-scale-data-science-at-airbnb-906faa58e12d)

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*AHc5ykZByrNWn30UKsqfXw.png)

+ [Using googlesheets and mailR packages in R to automate reporting](https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/using-googlesheets-and-mailr-packages-in-r-to-automate-reporting-c09579e0377f) 

+ [How R helps Airbnb make the most of its data](https://peerj.com/preprints/3182.pdf)



## Amazon Web Services

+ [Containerized applications with R to identify customers who need additional onboarding assistance and to detect fraud](https://earlconf.com/_downloads/london_speakers/EARL2018_-_London_-_Dzidas_Martinatis.pdf)



## BBC 

+ [Every story in the world has one of theses six basic plots](http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180525-every-story-in-the-world-has-one-of-these-six-basic-plots) 

+ [Nine facts about how long we live](https://www.bbc.com/news/health-43726436)

![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/16006/production/_101581109_optimised-chart5-nc.png)

+ [How the BBC Visual and Data Journalism team works with graphics in R](https://medium.com/bbc-visual-and-data-journalism/how-the-bbc-visual-and-data-journalism-team-works-with-graphics-in-r-ed0b35693535)

#### Cookbook 

! [BBC Visual and Data Journalism cookbook for R graphics](https://bbc.github.io/rcookbook/)

#### Packages

+ [bbplot - R package that helps create and export ggplot2 charts in the style used by the BBC News data team](https://github.com/bbc/bbplot)

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## Booking

+ [How Booking.com increases the power of online experiments with CUPED](https://booking.ai/how-booking-com-increases-the-power-of-online-experiments-with-cuped-995d186fff1d)



## Province of British Columbia

+ [Content (slide decks etc) from presentations related to use of R (#rstats) in the B.C. government ](https://github.com/bcgov/bcgov-rstats-public-presentations)

+ [Presentation materials from bcgov useR days](https://github.com/bcgov/bcgov-useR)

+ Example repo: [CANSIM-dataviewer](https://github.com/bcgov/CANSIM-dataviewer) with the code for the extraction, tabulation, and visualisation of data from Statistics Canada's CANSIM database



#### Packages 

+ [bcmaps](https://github.com/bcgov/bcmaps), an R package of map layers for British Columbia 





## Buzzfeed 

+ [Using BuzzFeed’s listicle format to tell stories with maps and charts](http://www.storybench.org/using-buzzfeeds-listicle-format-tell-stories-maps-charts/)

+ [How Trump’s Tweets Shaped A Year In Politics](https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/trump-twitter-wars) - [The R code](https://buzzfeednews.github.io/2018-01-trump-twitter-wars/)

+ [How A Booming Population And Climate Change Made California’s Wildfires Worse Than Ever](https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/california-wildfires-people-climate)



## City of Chicago 

+ [Forecasting Chicago's Beach Water Quality](http://chicago.github.io/clear-water/)

+ [Behind the Scenes: Foodborne Chicago](http://www.smartchicagocollaborative.org/behind-the-scenes-foodborne-chicago/)



## Dyson

+ [Forecasting the expected sales of new models of vacuum cleaners, hand dryers, and other products](https://earlconf.com/_downloads/london_speakers/EARL2018_-_London_-_Dan_Erben.pdf)



## Ebay

+ [How eBay scales R training for a global workforce](https://assets.datacamp.com/groups/case-studies/Ebay.pdf)



## The Economist

+ [The Big Mac index](https://www.economist.com/news/2018/07/11/the-big-mac-index)



## Facebook

+ [Visualizing Friendships](https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/visualizing-friendships/469716398919) 

+ [Criss-Crossing the Org Chart — Predicting Colleague Interactions with R](https://www.r-project.org/conferences/useR-2010/slides/Sun.pdf)

+ [What’s on your mind?](https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-data-team/whats-on-your-mind/477517358858)

![](https://scontent-cdg2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/63429_489195103414_3434397_n.jpg?oh=2172a7cef2963660884f4df034e18023&oe=5AE567A7)

+ [Showing Support for Marriage Equality on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-data-science/showing-support-for-marriage-equality-on-facebook/10151430548593859) 

+ [The Formation of Love](https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-data-science/the-formation-of-love/10152064609253859)

#### Packages

+ [Prophet — Forecasting at scale](https://facebook.github.io/prophet/)



## Financial Times 

+ [Is Russia-Saudi Arabia the worst World Cup game ever?](https://www.ft.com/content/e4a5012e-6e3e-11e8-92d3-6c13e5c92914)

![](https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/http%3A%2F%2Fcom.ft.imagepublish.upp-prod-eu.s3.amazonaws.com%2F99c56516-6e4a-11e8-92d3-6c13e5c92914?source=next&fit=scale-down&width=700)



## Kickstarter 

+ [10,000 Successful Projects](https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/10000-successful-projects)



## Google 

+ [Large-Scale Parallel Statistical Forecasting Computations in R](https://research.google.com/pubs/pub37483.html)

+ [RLint: Reformatting R Code to Follow the Google Style Guide](https://research.google.com/pubs/pub42577.html)

+ [R for Marketing Research and Analytics](https://research.google.com/pubs/pub43342.html)

+ [RAPPOR: Privacy-Preserving Reporting Algorithms](https://github.com/google/rappor)

+ [Predicting the Present with Google Trends](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/fr//googleblogs/pdfs/google_predicting_the_present.pdf)

#### Packages 

+ [abpackage - An R package for AB testing leveraging pre-period information](https://github.com/google/abpackage)

+ [CausalImpact - An R package for causal inference in time series](https://github.com/google/CausalImpact)

+ [MAB —  R package for Multi-Armed Bandit Simulation Study](https://github.com/google/MAB)



## Indiana 

+ [How the State of Indiana uses R and Azure to forecast employment](http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/state-of-indiana-employment.html)



## John Deere

+ [Order Fulfillment Forecasting at John Deere: How R Facilitates Creativity and Flexibility](https://www.slideshare.net/RevolutionAnalytics/order-fulfillment-forecasting-at-john-deere-how-r-facilitates-creativity-and-flexibility)



## Le Parisien

+ [Everything you need to know about your national football team](http://leparisien.fr/sports/football/coupe-du-monde/coupe-du-monde-2018-ce-qu-il-faut-savoir-sur-la-france-01-12-2017-7426749.php)

![](http://atelier.leparisien.fr/img/wc2018/PalmaresFrance.jpg)



## Microsoft

+ [Microsoft R Open](https://mran.microsoft.com/open)

+ [TrueSkill(TM): A Bayesian Skill Rating System](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/trueskilltm-a-bayesian-skill-rating-system)

+ [What does Microsoft do with R?](http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/02/what-does-microsoft-do-with-r.html)

+ [Personalised Marketing at Scale with Propensity Models using R and Spark](https://earlconf.com/_downloads/london_speakers/EARL2018_-_London_-_Paul_Swiontkowski.pdf)



## Mozilla

+ [Understanding Private Browsing](https://blog.mozilla.org/metrics/2010/08/23/understanding-private-browsing/)



## N Brown Group

+ [Analyze online product reviews from customers](https://earlconf.com/_downloads/london_speakers/EARL2018_-_London_-_Chris_Billingham.pdf)



## Nature

+ [Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0321-8)



## Netpeak Group 

+ [Migrating from AdWords API to Google Ads API. A Comprehensive Guideline](https://netpeak.net/blog/migrating-from-adwords-api-to-google-ads-api-a-comprehensive-guideline/)

+ [How to Extract Marketing Campaign Statistics from Facebook API Using R](https://netpeak.net/blog/how-to-extract-marketing-campaign-statistics-from-facebook-api-using-r/)

+ [How we implemented BI analytics in contextual advertising department](https://netpeak.net/blog/how-we-implemented-bi-analytics-in-contextual-advertising-department/)

#### Packages 

  

+ [getProxy - Get Free Proxy IP and Port](https://github.com/cran/getProxy)

  

+ [rappsflyer - Work with AppsFlyer API](https://github.com/cran/rappsflyer)

  

+ [rfacebookstat - Load Data from Facebook Marketing API](https://github.com/cran/rfacebookstat)

  

+ [rgoogleads - Loading Data from Google Ads API](https://github.com/cran/rgoogleads)

  

+ [rmytarget - Load Data from MyTarget API v2](https://github.com/cran/rmytarget)

  

+ [rvkstat - R Interface to vk.com API](https://github.com/cran/rvkstat)

  

+ [ryandexdirect - Load Data From Yandex Direct](https://github.com/cran/ryandexdirect)

  

+ [rym - R Interface to Yandex Metrica API](https://github.com/cran/rym)

  

+ [timeperiodsR - Simple Definition Of Time Intervals](https://github.com/cran/timeperiodsR)

+ [serpstatr - Serpstat API Wrapper](https://github.com/cran/serpstatr)



## New York Times 

+ [The Upshot — A New York Times website with analysis and data visualizations about politics, policy and everyday life.](https://github.com/TheUpshot)



## Netflix 

+ [Moving from prototype to production in R](http://bryangal.vin/useR-2018/)



  

## Pinnacle 

+ [Using ‘R’ for betting analysis](https://www.pinnacle.com/en/betting-articles/Betting-Strategy/r-betting-analysis/N7Y2W3F87V489ZDC)

+ [How R is driving sports betting innovation](https://www.pinnacle.com/en/betting-articles/educational/r-betting-innovation/A642DKMEXWMMKU6B)



  

  

## NHS-R Community

+ [The NHS-R Community exists to support the all NHS organisations in R](https://nhsrcommunity.com/)




## StackExchange/StackOverflow

+ [One year as a Data scientist at SO - David Robinson](http://varianceexplained.org/r/year_data_scientist/)

+ [Text Mining of Stack Overflow Questions](https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/07/06/text-mining-stack-overflow-questions/)

+ [Understanding PCA using Shiny and Stack Overflow data](https://www.rstudio.com/resources/videos/understanding-pca-using-shiny-and-stack-overflow-data/)

+ [ne year as a Data scientist at Stack Overflow - Julia Silge](https://juliasilge.com/blog/one-year-at-stack/)



## Stitchfix 

+ [R in pRoduction: theRe be dRagons!](https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2017/06/15/beware-r-in-production/) 

+ [Data Exploration with Weight of Evidence and Information Value in R](https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/08/13/weight-of-evidence/)



## Süddeutsche Zeitung

+ [data journalism with R at Süddeutsche Zeitung](https://github.com/sueddeutsche/rladies-presentation/blob/master/rladies-presentation-brunner-schories.pdf)



## T-Mobile 

+ [Enterprise Web Services with Neural Networks Using R and TensorFlow](https://opensource.t-mobile.com/blog/posts/r-tensorflow-api/)

+ [R can API and So Can You!](https://medium.com/tmobile-tech/r-can-api-c184951a24a3)

+ [Using docker to deploy an R plumber API](https://medium.com/tmobile-tech/using-docker-to-deploy-an-r-plumber-api-863ccf91516d)



## USMA

+ [R in USMA](https://www.youtube.com/embed/Npk-cfQVqKo)



## Twitter

+ [The geography of Tweets](https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/a/2013/the-geography-of-tweets.html)

#### Packages 

+ [AnomalyDetection R package](https://github.com/twitter/AnomalyDetection)

![](https://github.com/twitter/AnomalyDetection/raw/master/figs/Fig1.png)



## Uber

+ [R at Uber](https://capetown2017.satrdays.org/talks/satRday-2017-van-heerden.pdf)



## UNHCR 

+ [UNHCR R data Package](https://github.com/unhcr/unhcrdatapackage)

+ [A package for survey data crunching](https://unhcr.github.io/koboloadeR/docs/)

+ [Initiated a community of data analysis with R: humanitaRian useR group](https://humanitarian-user-group.github.io/)



## United Kingdom Government 

+ [Transforming the process of producing official statistics](https://dataingovernment.blog.gov.uk/2017/11/27/transforming-the-process-of-producing-official-statistics/)

+ [Reproducible Analytical Pipelines](https://dataingovernment.blog.gov.uk/2017/03/27/reproducible-analytical-pipeline/)



## Uptake

+ [Data scientists making their code public? So crazy it just might work](https://www.uptake.com/blog/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](https://github.com/uptake/cran-server)

+ [pkgnet: R package to analyze R packages with graph theory](https://github.com/uptake/pkgnet)

+ [updraft: parallelize processing DAGs in pure R code](https://github.com/uptake/updraft)

+ [uptasticsearch: an R data frame client for Elasticsearch](https://github.com/uptake/uptasticsearch)

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/uptake/pkgnet/master/readme_figures/demo.gif)



## Wikimedia 

+ [How we made that net neutrality clickstream diagram](https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/01/18/on-that-net-neutrality-clickstream-diagram/)

![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Net_neutrality_clickstream_%28Nov_2017%29.png)

+ [Wikidata Concepts Monitor (WDCM): R in action across Big Wikidata](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/GMilovanovic_eRum2018.pdf)



## Worldbank 

+ [The 2018 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals: an all-new visual guide to data and development](http://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/2018-atlas-sustainable-development-goals-all-new-visual-guide-data-and-development)

![](https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/files/opendata/sdg8-10-fig8.png)