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Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Arvind Lakshminarayanan. Ever since the inception of cloud-computing solutions, several sectors, including banks and Fintech, are slowly migrating to it. With numerous benefits, the cloud is turning out to be the ultimate storage option for your data. Even for personal storage, platforms, such as Google Drive or Dropbox are leading the race.Migrating from traditional data centers to the cloud might sound daunting but the endless benefits makes it an option to consider.What are cloud computing technologies?In layman’s term, cloud is a form of storage which allows users to store data on the internet.Cloud computing ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Mac Slocum. Both quantitatively and qualitatively, the Radar team has uncovered a growing wave of change in software development and architectural trends. Organizations are increasingly choosing the combination of cloud, containers, and orchestration to implement microservices as their directional architecture. The need to support business processes and customer expectations—and to have flexibility, adaptability, and scaling for new projects and for migrating legacy systems—has organizations embracing the interrelated technologies and approaches we call Next Architecture. In this report, we cover background, technology and business drivers, and key components that define the Next Architecture concept. Every company has a ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. “He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.” “We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!” “For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.” “The Answer to the Great Question… Of Life, the Universe and Everything… Is… Forty-two,’ said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.” The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Introduction ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. Note: I had written a post about 3 years back on World Bank Data Analysis using World Development Indicators (WDI) & gVisMotionCharts. But the motion charts stopped working  some time ago. I have always been wanting to fix this and I now got to actually doing it. The issue was 2 of the WDI indicators had changed. After I fixed this I was able to host the generated motion chart using github.io pages. Please make sure that you enable flash player if you open the motion charts with Google Chrome. You may also have ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. The second edition of my book ‘Deep Learning from first principles:Second Edition- In vectorized Python, R and Octave’, is now available on Amazon, in both paperback ($14.99)  and kindle ($9.99/Rs449/-)  versions. Since this book is almost 70% code, all functions, and code snippets have been formatted to use the fixed-width font ‘Lucida Console’. In addition line numbers have been added to all code snippets. This makes the code more organized and much more readable. I have also fixed typos in the book The book includes the following chapters Table of Contents Preface 4 Introduction 6 ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Laura Ellis. As you may have noticed, I blog a lot about R.  I just can’t help it y’all, I’m like a moth to a flame with these fancy R packages.  Since I try to make my blogs beginner friendly, I usually begin with a little talk about your options for running R code.  As such, I wanted to dedicate a whole blog to explain your R options within IBM Watson Studio.  Why?  Well first and foremost, I use it a lot and I want to share the benefits.  Even better,  I can share it because the ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: doreen-dunn; Transcript William: Welcome to Data Decoded, an IBM podcast series dedicated to demystifying the world of data. From data lakes to master data management to data science and big data and everything in between, this is the podcast for the data professional and all those who understand they are in the business of data. If you don't think you're in the business of data as we are recording this, the business the data is all over the news right now and so I think people are really becoming aware ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”Dr. Seuss “Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.”H L Mencken In this 6th instalment of ‘Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave-Part6’, I look at a couple of different initialization techniques used in Deep Learning, L2 regularization and the ‘dropout’ method. Specifically, I implement “He initialization” & “Xavier Initialization”. My earlier posts in this series of ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. Introduction a. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. b. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. c. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C Clarke. In this 5th part on Deep Learning from first Principles in Python, R ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. (This article was first published on R – Giga thoughts …, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) In this 4th post of my series on Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 4, I explore the details of creating a multi-class classifier using the Softmax activation unit in a neural network. The earlier posts in this series were 1. Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 1. In this post I implemented logistic regression as a simple Neural Network in vectorized Python, R and Octave ... Read More