Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Meredith Rakowski. My “why” has always been my animals. They are the reason I drag myself out of bed every morning before the sun comes up to feed, water, and check them over before heading to school. And once there, my “why” becomes my job as I share my passion for animals with young minds. Because the material is so close to our hearts, Career and Technical Education teachers strive to convey our knowledge in unique ways. Many CTE courses are built around hands-on, experiential learning. At their core, these courses are meant to prepare students ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: David Sanchez Martin. 15 August, 2018 | David Sánchez Martín Pascal’s Triangle – Alteryx Python SDK The original version of this article with working code is here . After a couple of posts (I & II) getting my feet wet with the Python SDK module for Alteryx I finally get to build a tool that actually uses some code: The Pascal’s Triangle generator Following the original recipe, I duplicated a sample folder, renamed the files, removed most of the superfluous code, added the pieces I needed and, finally, connected my code with the AyxPlugin. All ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. This week version 2.0 of the mongolite package has been released to CRAN. Major new features in this release include support for MongoDB 4.0, GridFS, running database commands, and connection pooling. Mongolite is primarily an easy-to-use client to get data in and out of MongoDB. However it supports increasingly many advanced features like aggregation, indexing, map-reduce, streaming, encryption, and enterprise authentication. The mongolite user manual provides a great introduction with details and worked examples. GridFS Support! New in version 2.0 is support for the MongoDB GridFS system. A GridFS is ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Mic. This is a short post following the previous one (PCA revisited). In this post I’m going to apply PCA to a toy problem: the classification of faces. Again I’ll be working on the Olivetti faces dataset. Please visit the previous post PCA revisited to read how to download it. The goal of this post is to fit a simple classification model to predict, given an image, the label to which it belongs. I’m goint to fit two support vector machine models and then compare their accuracy. The The first model uses as input data the raw ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: jay-limburn; Data can be an organization’s most valued asset, providing insights that help strengthen business. Knowing what works and what does not can help you invest more resources in what would work in the future.But there are two main challenges that might impede you from realizing the true value of your data and slowing your journey to adopting artificial intelligence (AI). Challenge 1: Inefficient data management The first challenge is the inefficiency in managing all the disparate data that flows through your enterprise. You need to ensure a fluid ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: matthew-johnsen; Higher education can be a great source of fulfillment and personal development. It’s also a powerful economic asset. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans with college degrees are almost twice as likely to be employed as those with only a high school diploma.But getting there isn’t easy. Many enroll in higher education programs but drop out after facing academic or personal difficulties. One study concluded that as many as 54.8 percent of incoming undergraduate students won’t complete a degree within six years. This is a ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is extending its partnership with Oracle for another three years. This partnership is through a research-and-development program set up by the laboratory, called CERN openlab; it provides a unique research framework in which scientists and leading IT companies can work together. One of the aims of the partnership with Oracle is to develop a high-performance cloud infrastructure capable of storing and analyzing vast quantities of controls data, such as that generated by the gigantic research infrastructures used at the laboratory to probe the origin of the universe. Oracle ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. To accelerate the commercialization of life-changing products, bioscience companies are selecting Oracle NetSuite. Two cutting-edge bioscience companies, Selecta Biosciences and BioMonde, are leveraging NetSuite to bring life-changing products to market faster and allow them to focus on the continued treatment and prevention of serious diseases. Selecta Biosciences Seeks to Counter Unwanted Immune Responses Selecta Biosciences, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, is focused on unlocking the full potential of biologic therapies by mitigating unwanted immune responses. Selecta Bioscience’s current pipeline includes enzyme, oncology and gene therapy product candidates enabled by its proprietary Synthetic Vaccine Particles (SVP™) technology ... Read More

Feed: Tractica. Author: Keith Kirkpatrick. What if your car’s navigation system could simultaneously calculate all of the possible routes from New York City, to Washington, D.C., and account for weather conditions, current and future traffic conditions, road construction, and even traffic signals, providing you with the optimal route in real time? How about an algorithm that would automatically mine through possible compounds to find the most stable one on which to develop a new, life-saving drug? Or how about a wedding planning application that would let a bride easily configure and reconfigure a seating arrangement using specific criteria relating to ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. When: 6-8pm Thursday August 16, 2018Where: iovationWho: Mark WongWhat: Sneak peek at stored procedures Stored procedure support is coming to PostgreSQL 11.  Come hear about what a stored procedure is and how it differs from the existing user-defined functions. Mark leads the 2ndQuadrant performance practice as a Performance Consultant for English Speaking Territories, based out of Oregon in the USA. He is a long time Contributor to PostgreSQL, co-organizer of the Portland PostgreSQL User Group, and serves as a Director and Treasurer for the United States PostgreSQL Association. — If you have a job posting or event you would like ... Read More