Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Paul Harapin. Everybody makes decisions. Every hour, Every day. We tend to forget that simple fact when we try to improve decision-making processes in business. Senior leaders and executives aren’t the only ones whose choices impact operations and profitability: virtually all employees can influence these things by way of their workplace habits, the technologies they use (or abuse), and how they respond to unforeseen or challenging circumstances. In fact, the term “decision maker” can apply to anyone – and that raises some big questions about how, and to whom, we provide tools to help improve those ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Val Pinskiy. As you may have noticed, we have made a few changes to our apps for the 2017 season to bring you a smoother and quicker experience while also adding more advanced and customizable views. Most visibly, we moved the apps to Shiny so we can continue to build on our use of R and add new features and improvements throughout the season.  We expect the apps to better handle high traffic load this season during draft season and peak traffic. In addition to the ability to create and save custom settings, you can also choose the ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Jesus Ramos. Data Denialism A common scenario that data analysts in general encounter is what I like to describe as "data denialism". Often, and especially while consulting, an analyst will find that the data tells a different story than what the customer holds to be true. It is also often the case that, when presenting this finding, the customer will outright deny the evidence, asserting that either the data or the analysis must be wrong. For example, it may be that a retailer focused on the low-end market is getting most ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Sundeep Tengur. The revised EU Payment Services Directive (PSD2) has been a focal point for the financial services industry over the last couple of years and its adoption is set to revolutionise the payment ecosystem in Europe. New entrants, innovative technologies and increased regulation are already posing major challenges to traditional banks as they need to do more than ever before to retain their revenue streams, meet growing customer expectations and counter the erosion of their competitive edge. So why is PSD2 such a game-changer? In short, PSD2 calls for banks to open their data infrastructure ... Read More

Feed: Percona Database Performance Blog. Author: Borys Belinsky. Borys Belinsky  | August 16, 2017 |  Posted In: Events and Announcements, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Monitoring and Management PREVIOUS POST Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.2.1 on August 16, 2017. For install and upgrade instructions, see Deploying Percona Monitoring and Management. This hotfix release improves memory consumption. Changes in PMM Server We’ve introduced the following changes in PMM Server 1.2.1: Bug fixes PMM-1280: PMM server affected by nGinx CVE-2017-7529. An integer overflow exploit could result in a DOS (Denial of Service) for the affected nginx service with the max_ranges directive not set. This problem is solved by setting the set max_ranges directive to 1 in ... Read More

Feed: Percona Database Performance Blog. Author: Emily Ikuta. Emily Ikuta  | August 16, 2017 |  Posted In: MySQL PREVIOUS POST Join Percona’s, Senior Technical Operations Architect Tim Vaillancourt as he presents “Efficient CRUD Queries in MongoDB” on Thursday, August 17, 2017, at 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-7). MongoDB has its own commands and function structures that ask the database to do work. In this talk, we will discuss how queries, updates, deletes and inserts work. However, we will go beyond these actions and also review what operators you should and shouldn’t use, and how they might actually drive your ... Read More

Feed: Percona Database Performance Blog. Author: Emily Ikuta. Emily Ikuta  | August 7, 2017 |  Posted In: MongoDB, Security, Technical Webinars PREVIOUS POST Join Percona’s Senior Technical Services Engineer, Adamo Tonete as he presents MongoDB Security: Making Things Secure by Default on Wednesday, August 9, 2017 at 11:00 am PDT / 2:00 pm EDT (UTC-7). MongoDB security breaches have regularly been in the news. What isn’t mentioned, however, is that it’s all been avoidable. Simple mistakes add up to giant headaches, and loss of management and customer confidence in you (the DBA). We will cut through the marketing hype and give you ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Thinking inside the box. The bi-monthly RcppArmadillo release is out with a new version 0.7.960.1.0 which is now on CRAN, and will get to Debian in due course. And it is a big one. Lots of nice upstream changes from Armadillo, and lots of work on our end as the Google Summer of Code project by Binxiang Ni, plus a few smaller enhancements — see below for details. Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra aiming towards a good balance between speed and ease of use with a syntax deliberately close to ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Jeroen Ooms. Last week we released an update of the tesseract package to CRAN. This package provides R bindings to Google's OCR library Tesseract. install.packages("tesseract") The new version ships with the latest libtesseract 3.05.01 on Windows and MacOS. Furthermore it includes enhancements for managing language data and using tesseract together with the magick package. Installing Language Data The new version has several improvements for installing additional language data. On Windows and MacOS you use the tesseract_download() function to install additional languages: tesseract_download("fra") Language data are now stored in rappdirs::user_data_dir('tesseract') which makes it persist across updates of the ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: David Smith. The first "official" version of R, version 1.0.0, was released on February 29, 200. But the R Project had already been underway for several years before then. Sharing this tweet, from yesterday, from R Core member Peter Dalgaard: It was twenty years ago today, Ross Ihaka got the band to play.... #rstats pic.twitter.com/msSpPz2kyA — Peter Dalgaard (@pdalgd) August 16, 2017 Twenty years ago, on August 16 1997, the R Core Group was formed. Before that date, the committers to R were the projects' founders Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman, along with Luke Tierney, ... Read More