Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Girish Bablani. This past year has shown us how important it is to be ready for the unexpected. We spent a lot of time talking with customers, and it was rewarding to hear their stories of using technology to respond quickly to changing business needs. This was especially true for those who were well down the path of digital transformation. For example, Coats was an early mover to the cloud and was able to adapt quickly to the increased demand for thread to make the world’s personal protective equipment (PPE). In April, Carhartt shifted US production ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service, now supports JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) syntax to help you read and write data from other systems more easily.  JSON is a popular data format used for configuration files, storing the state of applications, and exchanging data between systems. Now, Amazon Keyspaces helps you read and write JSON documents more easily by supporting JSON syntax for INSERT and SELECT operations. When you read and write JSON data, Keyspaces maps the attributes within a JSON document automatically to a target table’s schema. Using ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Eighteen new or updated datasets from Illumina, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, IntelinAir, and others are available on the Registry of Open Data in the following categories ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . A multicloud architecture can deliver a competitive edge for businessesHow can businesses position themselves to access the best products and capabilities to deliver transformation and help them succeed during a period of rapid change?For many businesses, the answer is a multicloud strategy that extends the capacity and capabilities of IT without up-front capex investments, and supports incremental modernization of applications and processes as resources permit. Take a considered approachA genuine multicloud strategy does not entail taking an ad-hoc approach to engaging cloud providers and Software as a Service products.An ill-disciplined approach simply adds more complexity without delivering ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Andrej Kovačević. Ever since the lockdowns due to the Covid-19, we’ve all increasingly depend on digital technology. Apart from being forced to evolve as societies and individuals, we prepared ourselves to cope and prepare for the future. Cutting-edge technologies didn’t just surface due to coronavirus. They’ve been reshaping the corporate world and dominating the business world before the pandemic. Now, with all the remote work and increased screen time, even individuals not too fond of technology had to get in the game to stay relevant and survive the crisis.The crisis forced many businesses in ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Kevin George.  Like every year, the email marketing fraternity is looking forward to some exciting trends for 2021. Obviously, we have come a long way from plain-text emails to images in emails to AMP and what not.With the overflow of creative juices, email geeks are all set to serve uniqueness in the subscriber’s inboxes and cut through the noise of 3.9 billion emails sent and received per day.Let’s have a look at what the year has in store for us.Marketers will vouch for minimalismMinimalism refers to subtlety, monochrome layout, and muted colors in email ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Blake Davies. We are more connected now than ever before. We can reach the other side of the globe in a matter of seconds, without even having to move one inch.  A privilege many businesses have taken advantage of in order to grow and prosper.Modern technologies allow us to tap into new markets, reach a greater customer base, as well as find a better team to help with all business matters.And within the top 5 remote jobs are developers. At first, the lowered cost was the main reason for allocating a part of their ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Roel M. Hogervorst. In this post I will show how I run an R script on a schedule, by making use of ‘serverless’ computing service on the Microsoft Cloud called Azure Functions. In short I will use a custom docker container, install required software, install required r-packages using {renv} and deploy it in the Azure cloud. I program the process in azure such that the it runs once a day without any supervision. This is not truely a tutorial, I cannot say this it the best approach, but I hope you can base your work on this ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Andrea Luciani is a Technical Advisor for the Directorate General for Economics, Statistics and Research at the Bank of Italy, and co-author of the bimets package. Structural Equation Models (SEM), which are common in many economic modeling efforts, require fitting and simulating whole system of equations where each equation may depend on ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: kjytay. (This is a PSA post, where I share a package that I think that might be of interest to the community but I haven’t looked too deeply into myself.) Today I learnt of the covidcast R package, which provides access to the COVIDcast Epidata API published by the Delphi group at Carnegie Mellon University. According to the covidcast R package website, This API provides daily access to a range of COVID-related signals Delphi that builds and maintains, from sources like symptom surveys and medical claims data, and also standard signals that we simply mirror, like confirmed cases and ... Read More