Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle today announced the opening of the Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator in Austin, Texas, the global program’s first U.S. location and part of the Oracle Global Startup Ecosystem. The new accelerator provides statewide startups with access to a network of more than 430,000 Oracle customers, technical and business mentors, state-of-the-art technology, co-working space at Capital Factory, introductions to partners, talent, and investors, and free Oracle Cloud credits. In addition to local expertise, the program offers an ever-expanding global community of startup peers and program alumni. Austin Startup Cloud Accelerator The Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator, which ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. In order to further support the millions of worldwide businesses running Java in production, Oracle today announced Java SE Subscription, a new subscription model that covers all Java SE licensing and support needs. Java SE Subscription removes enterprise boardroom concerns around mission critical, timely, software performance, stability and security updates. Java SE Subscription complements Oracle’s long-standing and continued free Java SE releases and stewardship of the OpenJDK ecosystem where Oracle now produces open source OpenJDK binaries, enabling developers and organizations that do not need commercial support or enterprise management tools. Java SE Subscription provides commercial ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. The Intercollegiate Tennis Association and Oracle are excited to announce a multi-year extension to their alliance, as Oracle continues to strengthen its ongoing commitment to collegiate tennis. The Oracle ITA alliance includes Oracle’s ongoing sponsorship of the Oracle ITA Collegiate Tennis Rankings, the Oracle ITA Masters and Oracle ITA National Fall Championships, while adding title sponsorships to the ITA Summer Circuit (now branded as the Oracle ITA Summer Circuit Powered By UTR) and the Division I and Division III National Team Indoor Championships. “Our partnership with ITA has been a great success to date, and ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Jonathan Symonds. TLDR: Neural Networks are powerful but complex and opaque tools. Using Topological Data Analysis, we can describe the functioning and learning of a convolutional neural network in a compact and understandable way. The implications of the finding are profound and can accelerate the development of a wide range of applications from self-driving everything to GDPR.Introduction Neural networks have demonstrated a great deal of success in the study of various kinds of data, including images, text, time series, and many others.  One issue that restricts their applicability, however, is the ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: lakshmi yarlagadda. Over the past decade, we have seen a shift towards virtualization, a stepping stone to complete cloud utilization. However, even by leveraging virtualization, you still need the appropriate building blocks for a private cloud environment. This involves going beyond simply virtualizingcompute and other central data center subsystems (i.e., network and storage), and requires you to enable flexible APIs in order to automate resource provisioning and orchestration. 1 Open source Some say that OpenStackis the largest open source project ever. It combines computing, networking, and storage subsystems in layers via APIs within ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Amit Supe. Digital world is all around us! Disruptive Business Models is the new phenomenon! It means different things (not just internet of things) to different people and businesses. Some industries are traditionally slow in adapting new technologies. For example, AOVC (Asset Oriented Value Chains – Natural Resources, Metals and Chemicals) have not explored digital to it’s full potential. Analytics is one of the key components of this revolution. It it not just about capturing data of business operations but to leverage actionable insights for making intelligent products, enhancing customer experience ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: VAMSI NELLUTLA. If you keep up with the latest trends in the business world, then Data Science is a term that appears frequently nowadays. It is a steadily growing field and newer developments keep occurring as well. Data Science is responsible for multiple benefits for varying business industries. Small and large businesses alike are catching up; discovering high potential for growth using data analytics. Data Science Projects Businesses that seek to improve their solutions for customers by improving their operations, services, and products invest in Data Science projects. It is imperative ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. Part of rOpenSci’s mission is to create technical infrastructure in the form of carefully vetted R software tools that lower barriers to working with data sources on the web. Our open peer software review system for community-contributed tools is a key component of this. As the rOpenSci community grows and more package authors submit their work for peer review, we need to expand our editorial board to maintain a speedy process. As our recent post shows, package submissions have grown every year since we started this experiment, and we see ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. 21 Jun 2018 One of the joys of geospatial processing is the variety of tools in the tool box, and the ways that putting them together can yield surprising results. I have been in the guts of PostGIS for so long that I tend to think in terms of primitives: either there’s a function that does what you want or there isn’t. I’m too quick to ignore the power of combining the parts that we already have. A community member on the users list asked (paraphrased): “is there a way to split a polygon into sub-polygons of ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: matthew-johnsen; Running a machine learning pilot project is a great early step on the road to full adoption.To get started, you’ll need to build a cross-functional team of business analysts, engineers, data scientists and key stakeholders. From there, the process looks a lot like the scientific method taught in school. Here’s how it works: Identify an opportunity. Start with a problem tied directly to a specific business outcome. Make sure the subject of your pilot is small enough to tackle and clear enough to measure. For example, if you’re ... Read More