Explore advanced R analytics in SQL Server 2016 using R Tools for Visual Studio in this comprehensive presentation from PASS Data Community Summit. Dive into the world of predictive analytics, understanding its importance across industries and the challenges faced in adoption. Learn a three-step process for implementing predictive analytics and discover how R Tools for Visual Studio can enhance your workflow. Follow along with demos showcasing problem-solving techniques, data access methods, remote execution contexts, and parallelized algorithms. Gain insights into feature engineering, linear modeling, scoring, and model serialization. Understand how to integrate R code with SQL Server through stored procedures and prediction operators. Conclude with practical tips for implementing these advanced analytics techniques in your projects.