R

R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics that I’ve recently started using.

I wholeheartedly recommend the the awesome RStudio if you want to get to grips with it, and looking into RHadoop if you want to hook up with your Hadoop cluster.

Resources:

Date Link Notes
Nov 28 Extrafont Use external fonts in charts
Nov 25 Slidify A very nice way to present data from R projects.
May 18 Rpy A set of Python bindings