Hi there folks! I have read some interesting Python tutorials lately. I would love to share them with you. Without any further ado let me list them over here: 1. Composing Music With Recurrent Neural Networks I loved this tutorial. It is a bit old but still worth a read. The author has explained the theory behind his implementation. You will enjoy this tutorial if you are interested in signal processing, machine learning and/or music. 2. Page dewarping using OpenCV This was an interesting read. I am not well versed in computer vision but still loved to read the theory behind the dewarping ... Read More

The question was put to me “When will the IT industry provide reusable clinical and administrative data warehouses for the Medicaid enterprise?” It was a thought-provoking question that was well worth considering. Currently the healthcare insurance and provider industries are guided to target reporting that is defined by government regulation and motivated by financial incentives. These specific measures do lead to the creation of tracking and reporting system scoped to meet the requirements for reimbursement from government programs. This does not lead to a comprehensive data warehouse model or analytic platform for the Medicaid enterprise. Federal government reporting regulations and ... Read More

Hi there folks! I have been writing regular blog-posts since 2013. I have been documenting my Python journey since then. Almost every new thing which I learn finds it’s way to the blog. I haven’t only been writing blog-posts but I also publish a weekly newsletter and have also published a widely read book (Intermediate Python). Over the years I haven’t monetized. I have tried to keep everything free so that the maximum number of people can benefit from my work. Even my book was published under creative commons. It has been translated into Chinese and Russian as well. Now it is becoming increasingly difficult ... Read More

Like I said in my last post[1], I'm looking at last PyCon's videos. Here are my selected videos, in the order I saw them: Ned Batchelder - Machete-mode debugging: Hacking your way out of a tight spot. In fact, I saw this twice. Larry Hastings - Removing Python's GIL: The Gilectomy The Report Of Twisted’s Death or: Why Twisted and Tornado Are Relevant In The Asyncio Age How I built a power debugger out of the standard library and things I found on the internet Davey Shafik - HTTP/2 and Asynchronous APIs Sumana Harihareswara - HTTP Can Do That?! Points ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. On August 12, 2012, the inaugural World Elephant Day was launched to bring attention to the urgent plight of Asian and African elephants. The elephant is loved, revered, and respected by people and cultures around the world, yet we balance on the brink of seeing the last of this magnificent creature.Did you know that with the rate of ivory poaching and habitat conflict today, in 20-30 years there will be no wild elephants on the planet? Faced with these devastating statistics, World Elephant Day strives to bring awareness and education to people ... Read More

This blog is to get you jump started with a quick fundamental task using IBM® BigInsights® for Apache Hadoop on Bluemix®. You may treat it as similar to writing a “Hello World” program using a programming language, that you have learnt recently. Target is to ingest .csv file data into a BigInsights cluster, and query the file directly using Hive External Table. To accomplish this, you will need the following. 1. One IBM Bluemix user account. If you do not have one, sign up at http://ibm.biz/bluemixRegistration for 30 day free trial.2. One BigInsights for Apache Hadoop cluster, under Basic (Beta) ... Read More

With MySQL version 5.7.11 and up, Oracle continues to improve MySQL’s security features by adding MySQL Enterprise Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for InnoDB tables stored in innodb_file_per_table tablespaces. This feature provides at-rest encryption for physical tablespace data files. MySQL Enterprise TDE uses a two-tier encryption key architecture, consisting of a master encryption key and tablespace keys. When an InnoDB table is encrypted, a tablespace key is encrypted with the master key and the encrypted value of the tablespace key is stored in the tablespace header. When encrypting tablespace data, InnoDB transparently uses the master encryption key to decrypt the tablespace ... Read More

Want to Master R?  There’s no better time or place if you’re within an easy train, plane, automobile ride or a short jog of Hadley Wickham’s workshop on September 12th and 13th at the AMA Conference Center in New York City. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/master-r-developer-workshop-new-york-city-tickets-21347014495 As of today, there are just 20+ seats left. Discounts are still available for academics (students or faculty) and for 5 or more attendees from any organization. Email [email protected] if you have any questions about the workshop that you don’t find answered on the registration page. Hadley has no Master R workshops planned for Boston, Washington DC, ... Read More

Sometimes you want to generate data which is recursive. That is, in order to draw some data you may need to draw some more data from the same strategy. For example we might want to generate a tree structure, or arbitrary JSON.Hypothesis has the recursive function in the hypothesis.strategies module to make this easier to do. This is an article about how to use it ... Read More

(This article was first published on R – Decision Science News, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) FAST AND FRUGAL TREES R PACKAGE CREATES QUICK, ACCURATE DECISION TREES Fast and frugal trees allow you to make rapid decisions based on a few pieces of information. You can easily carry them out in your head. Surprisingly, the accuracy of these decisions rivals those made by gold-standard methods like logistic regression, especially when predicting out of sample. Intrigued? Check out this post by Nathaniel Phillips and the new R Package he’s created to create, visualize and test fast and frual trees. For all ... Read More