Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Michał Frącek. Last week I attended a three-day Gartner Summit in London. For all those who didn’t manage a trip, I want to share with you the biggest insights I gathered from the conference and review those things that impressed me the most. Business Vibe Visualization and interaction go hand in hand in modern businesses. Regardless of industry, the vibe, energy, and atmosphere defines a brand. And at the Gartner Summit, that vibe was entertainment with a dash of class. Organizationally, the event created the ambience of a large music festival ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: William Hills. For the last 16 years, Salesforce has a consistent look and feel.  In 2015, Salesforce launched its new platform, known as Salesforce Lightning. However, Salesforce users have been consistently using Salesforce classic and are much more comfortable with its user interface. Through its Lightning version, Salesforce has launched a new interface that is capable to increase organizational productivity and help in their faster deployment and seamless transition across all devices.    A number of Salesforce Classic users have switched to Salesforce Lightning and many are planning for this migration ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Divya Singh. Deep Learning is a highly empirical domain which majorly focusses on fine-tuning the various parameters. The choice of these parameters defines the accuracy of the model. So, it becomes important to choose such parameters wisely. Choosing the parameters based on intuition might not work every time which can degrade the performance of the model drastically. Also, a considerable amount of time and effort will go in vain while selecting the values of parameters based on intuition. So, the methodological approach should be followed to select the optimal values of ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Bill Schmarzo. I suck at the NCAA March Madness® bracket selection process.  I let my personal biases get in the way of making decisions based upon the numbers.  I over-rate the well-known Big Ten conference and under-rate the lesser-known Mid Majors and fall in love with the most recent team I saw on TV win their conference tournament.  You see, I fall prey to all the common decision-making traps – recency bias, over-confidence, anchoring, risk aversion, framing – that doom my brackets from the very beginning.  (See the Appendix for more ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Igor Bobriakov. The manufacturing business faces huge transformations nowadays. Due to rapid development of digital world and broad application of data science, various fields of human activity seek improvement. Modern manufacturing is often referred to as industry 4.0 that is the manufacturing under conditions of the fourth industrial revolution that has brought robotization, automation and broad application of data. The amount of data to be stored and processed is growing every day. Therefore, today's manufacturing companies need to find new solutions and use cases for this data. Of course, data brings ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Rosaria Silipo. We’ve all experienced the great data rush as companies push to use analytics to drive business decisions. After all, the proliferation of data and its intelligent analysis can change entire company trajectories. But to make the quintillions of data created each day truly useful, as well as all that has come before, it must be understandable to an artificial intelligence (AI) system.   Dealing with numbers is one thing, but human language is something else entirely. Making texts, comments, forum posts, tweets, web pages, blog posts, reviews and books ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Prashanth Southekal, PhD. Can Lack of Data Always Provide Valuable Insights? Prashanth H Southekal and Matthew Joyce Today, data – both structured and unstructured, is seen as the most valuable business asset to solve problems and improve productivity.  An article in Forbes says every company today is a data company! However, we often get questions from our clients, whether data can offer insights when there is no complete data available.  The short answer is YES; data can provide insights even when the complete data set is NOT available! Here is a ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. Roland Stevenson is a data scientist and consultant who may be reached on Linkedin. When accessing an API or database in R, it is often necessary to provide credentials such as a login name and password. You may find yourself being prompted with something like this: When writing an R script that requires a user to provide credentials, you will want a way to have the script prompt the user or, better yet, programatically provided the credentials in the R script. Either way, be careful! You don’t want to put your credentials out there in ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: quantixed. Our lab is international. People born all over the world have come to work in my group. I’m proud of this fact, especially in the current political climate. I’ve previously used the GoogleMaps API to display a heat map on our lab webpage. It shows where in the world people in the lab come from. This was OK, but I wanted to get an R based solution to make this graphic to make it easier to automate updates. This post is an explainer and “how to” guide. Code and some example data are here. The idea ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. One of the most important things to using PostgreSQL successfully in your development and production environments is simply getting started! One of the most popular ways to install PostgreSQL is by using RPM packages. The PostgreSQL RPM packages work across many Linux distributions, including, RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, Fedora, Scientific Linux, and more, and the PostgreSQL community provides installers for these distributions.This guide will help you get started with installing and configuring PostgreSQL for a CentOS / RHEL 7 based system, which will also work for Fedora 29. We will be installing PostgreSQL 11, which is the latest major release ... Read More