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1 - Shell I
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3 - Git I
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6 - SQL I
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9 - R Data Types
10 - Flow, Functions
11 - R Data I/O
12 - Base R Data Wrangling
13 - data.table
14 - dplyr
15 - Parallel Computing
16 - Efficient R
17 - Visualization I
18 - Visualization II
19 - Shiny Dashboards
20 - Packages I
21 - Packages II
22 - Rscript and r
23 - Docker I
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27 - Rcpp I
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29 - Rcpp III
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15 - Parallel Computing
Overview
R is single threaded
It math libraries may not be
parallel package as perfect start
mclapply
parLapply
simple benchmarking
mention foreach, future, …
big data / external memory / bigmemory
Core Material
Slides
Video 18: parallel R Introduction
and
R Code
Vignette of R package ‘parallel’
(also included in every R installation)
Additional Resources
Shorter
tutorial
by Matt Jones
Longer
comprehensive tutorial
by Jonathan Dursi (with
sources
)
Textbook
Parallel Computing for Data Science
book by Norm Matloff