AWS IoT Device Defender Now Provides Statistical Anomaly Detection and Data Visualization
Feed: What's New. Starting today, you can use statistical anomaly detection, and receive alerts when a device is not within the percentile-based threshold. For example, you can be alerted when your device is not within the 90th percentile of fleet behavior. You also have the ability to configure the number of consecutive violations per device that should trigger an alert. In addition, AWS IoT Device Defender now provides an easy way for you to visualize security metrics in the AWS Management Console for all devices, even when they are not in violation of custom-defined behaviors. The increased visibility of your ... Read More
Digital Transformation In Retail: The Retail Apocalypse

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. Much like the hospitality industry, digital transformation in retail has been a huge driver of change.One important fact is getting lost among all of the talk of “the retail apocalypse” and myriad stories about increasingly empty shopping malls: there’s a lot of money to be made in retail. In fact, the retail market was expected to grow by more than 3 percent in 2018, unemployment is low, and wages are at least stable. In short, there’s money to be spent. Now, where are shoppers spending it? Coming into 2019, consumers ... Read More
Consultant’s Diary: Nested LoD for Ranking

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Ravi Mistry. 21 February, 2019 | Ravi Mistry Consultant’s Diary: Nested LoD for Ranking I’m going to try and share some of the techniques and methods I use as a consultant. Using Tableau & Alteryx daily means that I’ve found I take small techniques, tips & tricks for granted. Hopefully this will be useful for you all. Table calculations can be mysterious. When first learning about table calculations, it may be a tricky subject to wrap your head around. One of the most used table calculation is the RANK() function. Rank is a function which comes in many flavours… ... Read More
A Few New R Books
Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. Greg Wilson is a data scientist and professional educator at RStudio. As a newcomer to R who prefers to read paper rather than pixels, I’ve been working my way through a more-or-less random selection of relevant books over the past few months. Some have discussed topics that I’m already familiar with in the context of R, while others have introduced me to entirely new subjects. This post describes four of them in brief; I hope to follow up with a second post in a few months as I work through the backlog on my desk ... Read More
Descriptive/Summary Statistics with descriptr
Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Rsquared Academy Blog. We are pleased to introduce the descriptr package, a set of tools forgenerating descriptive/summary statistics. Installation # Install release version from CRAN install.packages("descriptr") # Install development version from GitHub # install.packages("devtools") devtools::install_github("rsquaredacademy/descriptr") Shiny App descriptr includes a shiny app which can be launched using ds_launch_shiny_app() or try the live version here. Read on to learn more about the features of descriptr, or see thedescriptr website fordetailed documentation on using the package. Data We have modified the mtcars data to create a new data set mtcarz. The onlydifference between the two data sets is related ... Read More
Floor filler
Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R on Gianluca Baio. As I posted recently, I’m involved in a couple of events, later this summer: our annual Summer School and the new(er) tradition of the R for HTA workshop. I have to say that I’m very happy about how things are proceeding for both of them. The summer school has been first advertise a few months back (I’ve posted on the blog, but we’ve also tried to reach other relevant mailing lists and groups, such as the HTA agencies in the EUnetHTA Network). And the dancefloor is quickly filling — there’s been a surge ... Read More
Seasonality in NZ voting preference? by @ellis2013nz
Feed: R-bloggers. Author: free range statistics - R. There was a flurry of activity in the last couple of days on Twitter and the blogosphere, most notably Thomas Lumley’s excellent Stats Chat, relating to whether there is a pro-government bias in surveys of New Zealand voting intention in the summer. As the analysis I’ve seen used my nzelect R package, this motivated me to update it for recent polls. The nzelect update nzelect hasn’t been updated on CRAN for some time, because about a year ago I made some major changes to the data model for the historical election results ... Read More
Stefan Fercot: Monitor pgBackRest backups with Nagios
Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. pgBackRest is a well-known powerful backup and restore tool. Relying on the status information given by the “info” command, we’ve build a specific plugin for Nagios : check_pgbackrest. This post will help you discover this plugin and assume you already know pgBackRest and Nagios. Let’s assume we have a PostgreSQL cluster with pgBackRest working correctly. Given this simple configuration: [global] repo1-path=/some_shared_space/ repo1-retention-full=2 [mystanza] pg1-path=/var/lib/pgsql/11/data Let’s get the status of our backups with the pgbackrest info command: stanza: mystanza status: ok cipher: none db (current) wal archive min/max (11-1): 00000001000000040000003C/000000010000000B0000004E full backup: 20190219-121527F timestamp start/stop: 2019-02-19 12:15:27 / ... Read More
Consumers Reach Nearly 23 TWh of Energy Savings with Oracle Utilities Opower
Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Household energy consumers around the globe supported by Oracle Utilities Opower Energy Efficiency programs have reached nearly 23-terawatt hours (TWh) in cumulative energy savings. This equates to enough energy to take every household in Osaka off the grid for a year or to charge every personal mobile phone in Japan for 74 years. The digital revolution has enabled consumers to better control everything from how they shop to how they ride to work. Until relatively recently, however, they lacked the ability to effectively manage their energy usage to lessen both their environmental footprint and monthly ... Read More
KT Corp Connects With Oracle for New 5G Business Services
Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. KT Corp has selected Oracle Communications for the 5G Policy Control Function (PCF) in the buildout of its 5G network and to enable new Network as a Service (NaaS) offerings for businesses. An early adopter of 5G, KT Corp is known for innovation and selected Oracle for its overall 5G readiness, product maturity and competitive strengths, including its agile and feature-rich 5G PCF solution. “Building on our longstanding relationship with Oracle Communications, we are pleased to continue working together as we take advantage of all that 5G has to offer,” said Gwangwook Lee, VP Core ... Read More
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