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Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Bill Schmarzo. The Big Data craze caught fire with a provocative declaration that “Data is the New Oil”; that data will fuel the economic growth in the 21stcentury in much the same way that oil fueled the economic growth of the 20thcentury.  The “New Oil” analogy was a great way to contextualize the economic value of data; to give the Big Data conversation an easily recognizable face.  The Economist recently declared data “The World’s Most Valuable Resource” with an issue cover that featured leading organizations drilling for data. However, understanding the ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Rahul Agarwal. Kaggle is an excellent place for learning. And I learned a lot of things from the recently concluded competition on Quora Insincere questions classification in which I got a rank of 182/4037. In this post, I will try to provide a summary of the things I tried. I will also try to summarize the ideas which I missed but were a part of other winning solutions. As a side note: if you want to know more about NLP, I would like to recommend this awesome course on Natural Language ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Packt Publishing. Learn about Microsoft's network architecture and products in this article by Florian Klaffenbach, a technology solution professional at Microsoft who is a well-known expert when it comes to hybrid cloud scenarios, cloud connectivity, and cloud environment optimization. This article will take a closer look at Microsoft's connectivity options and how you can connect to Microsoft Cloud Services. You will learn about Microsoft's points of presence for internet peering and products such as Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute and Azure Virtual WAN. Public interconnect and points of presence First, you need to ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Dylan Menders. Graphics reveal data. It is a reasonably new invention (compared to say complex mathematical equations) as it was only in the late 1750 to 1800 that the first graphs were invented and referred to as ‘linear arithmetic’. The art and science of data visualization has grown in leaps and bounds since then and is a vital part of informed decision making today in both the business and scientific world. To manage your digital marketing campaigns with insight, it is crucial to understand the basics and the benefits of data ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Christopher Woodward. When looking for a solution for your project, it is important to understand what makes each technology unique, what sets it apart. With ArangoDB that is its native multi-model approach including full graph database capabilities and I am going to explain the fundamental pieces of what that means. Using ArangoDB as a Graph Database If you are already familiar with the graph database concept, then you know that a graph consists of vertices (or nodes) connected via edges. Graph databases usually store edges connected to vertices directly at the vertex object. In ArangoDB ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Transaction IDs (XID) have been something of a thorn in Postgres’ side since the dawn of time. On one hand, they’re necessary to differentiate tuple visibility between past, present, and concurrent transactions. On the other hand, the counter that stores it is only 32-bits, meaning it’s possible to eventually overflow without some kind of intervention.Mailchimp’s recent misadventures may even make it readily apparent XIDs are a fully loaded foot-gun given the right circumstances. And it’s not just them. Other high profile news events include Sentry and their encounter back in 2015, followed almost comically by Joyent a ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: James Konik; If you’re picking a project management tool, you’re spoiled for choice, with many platforms vying for your attention as people flock to the cloud. In this article, we’ll compare two of the best tools out there as we look at Monday.com vs. Asana. Both are popular, with Asana having a testimonial page full of high-profile customers, including NASA and The New York Times. Monday.com is also doing well, with over 50,000 teams using it, including clients such as Carlsberg, Philips and the Discovery Channel. In our roundup of the best project management software, Monday.com came ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. As technology makes it easier to connect with constituents, state and local governments are looking to build systems centered around and empowered by the citizen experience. This is especially the case with health and social services agencies.Public health systems often struggle to connect data across agencies and systems—leaving some communities without the insights they need to optimally allocate resources or to take action in the face of emerging epidemics. In a keynote address to over 800 government health IT leaders, Taha Kass-Hout, senior leader of healthcare and artificial intelligence at Amazon ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Vincent Granville. This resource is part of a series on specific topics related to data science: regression, clustering, neural networks, deep learning, decision trees, ensembles, correlation, Python, R, Tensorflow, SVM, data reduction, feature selection, experimental design, cross-validation, model fitting, and many more. To keep receiving these articles, sign up on DSC.  34 Great Articles and Tutorials on Clustering How to Automatically Determine the Number of Clusters in your Data  Scale-Invariant Clustering and Regression  Steps to calculate centroids in cluster using K-means clustering algorithm  Classification and Regression Trees  K-nn Clustering Explained in ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Ahmed Bouchefra; In this tutorial, we'll learn how to add JWT authentication to our REST API PHP application. We'll see what JWT is and how it works. We'll also see how to get the authorization header in PHP. We'll create REST API endpoints for allowing users to login and signup to access protected resources. What is JWT JWT stands for JSON Web Token and comprised of user encrypted information that can be used to authenticate users and exchange information between clients and servers. When building REST API, instead of server sessions commonly used in PHP apps ... Read More