Tag: Big Data

Feed: Microsoft Azure Community Events. Author: . COST: FREELEVEL: BeginnerIn a data-driven world, the need for data platforms to be open, secure and flexible to your needs is more important than ever. Microsoft has the most complete cloud platform and solutions for all your data needs, with the Microsoft assurance of trust and security built into all aspects of our technology to serve your business needs. Unlock the potential of your dataData Discovery Days is your opportunity to explore Azure Data Services through discussions and demonstrations by the best in the field. Unlock the full potential of your business by ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Floyd Smith. Bill Vorhies of Data Science Central and Rick Negrin of MemSQL recently delivered a webinar on data lakes and the use of Hadoop in the age of operational machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). In this blog post, we summarize some of the key points from the webinar, as a preview for the webinar. You can also view the recorded webinar at any point. Businesses need flexible access to their data to make the best decisions. Unfortunately, the systems in use today impose complexity and structural delays. MemSQL, a fast, fully scalable relational ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: kjytay. The glmnet function (from the package of the same name) is probably the most used function for fitting the elastic net model in R. (It also fits the lasso and ridge regression, since they are special cases of elastic net.) The glmnet function is very powerful and has several function options that users may not know about. In a series of posts, I hope to shed some light on what these options do. Here is the full signature of the glmnet function: glmnet(x, y, family=c("gaussian","binomial","poisson","multinomial","cox","mgaussian"), weights, offset=NULL, alpha = 1, nlambda = 100, lambda.min.ratio = ifelse(nobsIn ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Daniel Morneau. Just a few years ago, conversations about robotic process automation (RPA) were scattered and far between. Those familiar with RPA had a limited understanding of its potential and at best had carried out only a few isolated “proof of concept” experiments. Today, the RPA market is estimated to reach $2.9 billion by 2021, and conversations are becoming more frequent.  As a Forrester advisor on the Technology Council, I’ve partnered with senior technology leaders to find solutions to their challenges, identify opportunities to strategically leverage new technology, and connect them to research experts and their peers for support. While understanding of RPA has come a long way, there is still much to learn. As RPA moves from handling automation of simple ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Michael Lin. Businesses today compete in a hyper-competitive landscape. Analyzing the past for knowledge in the present is no longer good enough – enterprises must have an eye into the future. One way is to extrapolate predictive insights out of enterprise data. Through analyzing data, retailers can design features and products appealed to a broader or concentrated audience based on trends and purchase patterns, manufacturers can predict maintenance schedule of machinery to avoid production downtime, security operations can catch a hacker before a malicious attempt even takes place, and the use cases go on ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Faith Adams. Yesterday, SAP announced that it is acquiring Qualtrics for a hefty $8 billion in cash. For SAP, this does make some sense. SAP is often perceived as being a legacy provider that struggles to play in the consumer space, and this acquisition may help it make a larger data play. It may also enable SAP to close the loop when it comes to some of the VoC gaps in its C/4HANA CX suite that was announced earlier this year. But all of this is to be determined. For Qualtrics, the benefits are more ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. Antarctic/Southern Ocean science and rOpenSci Collaboration and reproducibility are fundamental to Antarctic and Southern Ocean science, and the value of data to Antarctic science has long been promoted. The Antarctic Treaty (which came into force in 1961) included the provision that scientific observations and results from Antarctica should be openly shared. The high cost and difficulty of acquisition means that data tend to be re-used for different studies once collected. Related R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials on topics such as: Data science, Big Data, R ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Phil de Valence. By Austin Tilman, Consultant at IpponBy Kevin Wrigglesworth, Senior Consultant at IpponBy Dennis Sharpe, Chief Technology Officer at IpponOur team at Ippon Technologies, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Consulting Partner, has successfully re-written a large mainframe third-party software package to Java Angular Spring Boot microservices. The package supported 130 TPS and 1,800 MIPS, catered to over 5,000 users, and housed more than 5 TB of business-critical data. Our target architecture relies on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Java microservices, and we helped the customer define the approach and architecture, and then developed the ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Paul Codding. Building on the vision and concepts outlined previously in Arun and Saumitra’s blogs, we wanted to show the Open Hybrid Architecture Initiative (OHAI) concepts in action, and see how they could be used to solve a data-driven business problem. In this example, we’ll use look at how our Open Hybrid Architecture Initiative (OHAI) applies to an enterprise. Hortonworks Air Freight has a business problem to solve. They are a global logistics provider with hubs in San Francisco and Dallas, but they need to plan out their next hub on the east coast and ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Allison Snow. I’ve always been attracted to the power of empathy. That being said, I’m a longtime fan of “soft” skills — skills that are helpful in relationship-building, making me a better friend and (presumably) a more tolerable colleague. Empathy clearly fits squarely there. But a more savvy marketer? A more insightful executive? A veritable customer whisperer? Hardly. Here at Forrester, analysts I admire always had a broader and, frankly, more accurate picture of empathy. Laura Ramos refers to empathy as the hallmark of the customer-obsessed B2B marketer. She partners with Jim Nail to name “practice ... Read More