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Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Packt Publishing. Tokenomics is the economy of this new world. This is a no-holds-barred, in-depth exploration of the way in which we can participate in the blockchain economy. The following is an excerpt from the book, Tokenomics by Thomas Power and Sean Au and published by Packt. One of the biggest challenges of playing in the ICO space is trying to understand the rules to play by. Regardless of what anyone says, we all live in a world bound by rules. We always have and always will, yet technology knows no ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. Today we will continue our work on Fama French factor models, but more as a vehicle to explore some of the awesome stuff happening in the world of tidy models. For new readers who want get familiar with Fama French before diving into this post, see here where we covered importing and wrangling the data, here where we covered rolling models and visualization, my most recent previous post here where we covered managing many models, and if you’re into Shiny, this flexdashboard. Our goal today is to explore k-fold cross-validation via the rsample package, and ... Read More

Feed: What's New. AWS Transit Gateway is now available in 8 additional AWS Regions in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific: Canada (Central), EU (London), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Paris), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Sydney). AWS Transit Gateway enables customers to connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and their on-premises networks using a single gateway. As you grow the number of workloads in AWS across multiple accounts, you need to scale your networks, control your connectivity policies better, and monitor your network effectively. Today, you can connect pairs of Amazon VPCs ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop Dev. Author: Nagapriya Tiruthani. As we are wrapping up 2018 and looking ahead to the New Year, we are delighted to share some new capabilities added to our products and some details on events coming early next year.   Product news: Excited to announce the availability of IBM Db2 Big SQL v5.0.4 (on HDP 2.6) IBM Db2 Big SQL, an advanced SQL engine on Hadoop, has been making strides with the fast-evolving open source ecosystem by supercharging your analytical workloads on data lakes. The core capabilities of Big SQL focusses on data virtualization, SQL compatibility, scalability, performance, and of course ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle today announced the Oracle Cloud Native Framework, providing developers a cloud native solution that spans public cloud, on premises and hybrid cloud deployments. Capitalizing on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and the recently announced Oracle Linux Cloud Native Environment, the Oracle Cloud Native Framework introduces a rich set of cloud native managed services and on-premises software. The Oracle Cloud Native Framework also introduces Oracle Functions, a new breakthrough serverless cloud service based on the open source Fn Project. As organizations move to the cloud, they are facing new and difficult challenges addressing cultural change and increased ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Brendan Burns. Welcome to KubeCon North America 2018, and welcome to Seattle. It’s amazing to get the chance to welcome you to my hometown, and the site of Kubernetes birth. It was barely five years ago that Joe, Craig, and I had the first small ideas and demos that eventually turned into the amazing project and community. I’m honored that all of you over the years have chosen to invest your time, energy, and enthusiasm in Kubernetes, whether this is your first KubeCon or you’ve been here since the first one in San Francisco four ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Microsoft Connect(); 2018 On Tuesday, December 4th, Microsoft Connect(); 2018 provided a full day of developer-focused content—including updates on Azure and Visual Studio, keynotes, demos, and real-time coding with experts. Scott Guthrie’s keynote provided all the Azure and Visual Studio news on how you can stay productive and focus on what matters to you. Guthrie’s keynote was followed by a demo-packed session hosted by Scott Hanselman and friends that provided a full tour on how you can build your apps on Azure using best-in-class developer tools. The day continued with coding sessions hosted ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: John Mount. This note is a comment on some of the timings shared in the dplyr-0.8.0 pre-release announcement. The original published timings were as follows: With performance metrics: measurements are marketing. So let’s dig in the above a bit. These timings are of the kind of small task large number of repetition breed that Matt Dowle writes against. So they at first wouldn’t seem that decisive. Except, look at the following: At the time of our reading the example and methods were not shared. To reproduce the work we will need to make our own example (which ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Chris Paciorek. Overview NIMBLE is a hierarchical modeling package that uses nearly the same language for model specification as the popular MCMC packages WinBUGS, OpenBUGS and JAGS, while making the modeling language extensible — you can add distributions and functions — and also allowing customization of the algorithms used to estimate the parameters of the model. Recently, we added support for Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) inference for Bayesian nonparametric (BNP) mixture models to NIMBLE. In particular, starting with version 0.6-11, NIMBLE provides functionality for fitting models involving Dirichlet process priors using either the Chinese Restaurant Process ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop Dev. Author: JessicaLeeYau. Today (December 4, 2018), I am very excited to announce the first release of IBM Big Replicate for Backup v2.0, now available! Big Replicate is a replication technology that gives you LIVE DATA — consistent data everywhere, spanning platforms and locations, even for changing data at petabyte scale. Big Replicate enables data replication for Hadoop and cloud object stores with continuous data availability and consistency exceeding the most demanding enterprise SLAs. Big Replicate for Backup is an add-on to Big Replicate for Hadoop which provides backup and data restoration capabilities to your LIVE DATA environment ... Read More