Tag: Big Data

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Keith Goldfeld. I was recently contacted to see if simstudy can create a data set of correlated outcomes that are measured over time, but at different intervals for each individual. The quick answer is there is no specific function to do this. However, if you are willing to assume an “exchangeable” correlation structure, where measurements far apart in time are just as correlated as measurements taken close together, then you could just generate individual-level random effects (intercepts and/or slopes) and pretty much call it a day. Unfortunately, the researcher had something more challenging in mind: he wanted ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Baiju NT. Recently, I interviewed Dejan S. Milojicic, an established researcher, technologist and former president of IEEE Computer Society, the world’s premier organization of computing professionals.Milojicic is the managing director of HP Labs’ Open Cirrus Cloud. He is also the founding editor in chief of Computing Now and an IEEE Internet Computing editorial board member. He teaches cloud management at San Jose State University, California. Milojicic received a Ph.D. from Kaiserslautern University, Germany, and has published two books, more than 120 papers, and been awarded 11 patents and 22 patent applications.Dejan S. Milojicic, an ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Alice Berg. Your face is what distinguishes you from John or Jane in the simplest form of its purpose. But as facial recognition technology keeps making strides with each passing day, people’s faces are now taking on more complex functions. Today, they are used for accessing bank accounts and even unlocking smartphones. And that’s not about it; law enforcement officers also run faces through facial scanning software to identify persons of interest in a crowd quickly and with impressive accuracy. Thus far, various tech titans have launched facial identification products to the market such ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: Kapost; For some, 2018 will be remembered as the year of GDPR – when Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation sent many companies scrambling to meet data compliance deadlines over this past summer. If you’re an IT professional managing data, it’s time to start planning for the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, also known as CCPA.  The new guidelines will go into effect on January 1, 2020. Like GDPR, CCPA has implications for how many companies collect and manage data, as well as how they communicate data practices to their ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: joni-rolenaitis; As one of the three major credit reporting agencies, Experian collects tons of data on individuals and businesses. From 3,000 sources of data we update 200 million records a month on that data.Our U.S. Business Information Services unit (BIS) has been around since 1978, so we like to say that we’ve been doing data in a big way since long before size mattered so much. Experian is also well-known for its data and analytics research and development. It maintains data labs all over the world staffed with mathematics ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Shivani Rana. Organizations or individuals involved in email marketing campaigns usually complain about the low email deliverability. If you are also facing the same situation then you must be wondering why your emails are being spammed. However, there can be multiple causes of emails landing in the spam folder. Cleanliness of the email database, authentication status and knowledge of your recipients are some of the factors that affect your email stats.8 steps to make sure your emails stay out of the spam folderRemember one thing that you are not alone and there are numerous ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: David Smith. RStudio Server Pro is now available on the Azure Marketplace, the company announced on the RStudio Blog earlier this month. This means you can launch RStudio Server Pro on an virtual machine with the memory, disk, and CPU configuration of your choice, and pay by the minute for the VM instance plus a the RStudio software charge. Then, you can use a browser to access the remote RStudio Server (the interface is nigh-indistinguishable from the desktop version), with access to the commercial features of RStudio including support for multiple R version and concurrent ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Paul McKay. I expected (naively, some may think) by now that with a withdrawal deal secured by the UK and the EU, I would be able to update my earlier report on Brexit published last summer. Sadly, it was not to be, as it appears that, like Blackadder’s famous character Baldrick, the UK government thinks it has a cunning plan to overcome the historic House of Commons defeat suffered on January 15, 2019. We will see in time whether the plan can be judged to be a credible plan and a cunning move in the ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Jon Neiditz. When you rub the magic lamp and are offered three wishes for your digital advertising program, how can you use those wishes to avoid €50,000,000 fines from the French CNIL? Transparency:  You need to disclose clearly the scope of personal data processing, including the purposes for which data is processed and the sources for personalized advertising.  And the disclosures must be very specific, organized, and available without clicking through several links.  For example, you need to tell users how long you will store their data, not just tell them how you decide whether to destroy ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Brian Hopkins. I’ve dedicated a fair number of research cycles to understanding quantum computers over the last 18 months because I believe they eventually will be revolutionary. That said, I think they have a long way to go, as I explain in my recent blog post about IBM’s quantum computing announcement at CES 2019. In this podcast, I present an alternative point of view by interviewing Ray Beausoleil from HPE, a company that actually walked away from its early quantum computing research in favor of technologies it thinks will offer more near-term solutions to accelerate ... Read More