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Apr 21, 2011. In a very interesting presentation Predictive modeling competitions: making data science a sport to the Bay Area R User Group last week, Kaggle CEO Anthony Goldbloom showed the software preferences of Kaggle competitors: (Gregory PS: I rearranged his pie chart as a bar chart for more readability)
About a third of all Kaggle competitors report using R. Moreover, Kaggle reports that fully 50% of competition winners used R to beat out their competitors to create the most accurate predictive models.
Revolution Analytics has released a new white paper that interviews some Kaggle competitors who used R to win their competitions.
David Smith write on Revolution Analytics blog that
a partnership with Kaggle to make the big-data capabilities of
Revolution R Enterprise available for use in Kaggle competitions, free of charge.
Read more at David Smith blog: How Kaggle competitors use R