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Feed: Planet big data. Author: David Smith. In case you missed them, here are some articles from November of particular interest to R users. David Gerard assesses the plausibility of a key plot point in 'Jurassic Park' with simulations in R. In-database R is available in Azure SQL Database for private preview.  Introducing AzureR, a new suite of R packages for managing Azure resources in R. The AzureRMR package provides an interface for Resource Manager. Roundup of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science news from November 2018. You can now use the AI capabilities of Microsoft Cognitive Services within a container ... Read More

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: Planet MySQL; Author: Oracle MySQL Group; As announce on Oct 18, 2018 we would like to just remind about the Open Source Conference in Tokyo, Japan which will be hold tomorrow, December 14, 2018. Please come to hear the MySQL talk on "State of Dolphin" by Yoshiaki Yamasaki, the MySQL Senior Sales Consultant Asia Pacific and Japan region. During his talk the general product updates will be covered. You can also find our team at the MySQL booth in the expo area. We are looking forward to seeing and talking to you at this show! '); } else { ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. re:Invent 2018 is around the corner! This year, data and analytics tracks are bigger than ever.This blog post highlights the data and analytics sessions at re:Invent 2018. If you’re attending this year, you want to check out the sessions, workshops, chalk talks, and builder sessions that we have at the conference. As in previous years, you can find these events in various topic categories, such as Analytics, Deep Learning, AI Summit, Serverless, Architecture, and Databases. We have great sessions from Intuit, Nike, Intel, WuXi NextCODE, Warner Brothers, AutoDesk, NFL, SendGrid, McDonald, AirBnB, Hilton, Guardian Life, ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Cheuk Ting Ho. Cheuk Ting Ho  is a London based and data scientist. She contributes to the data science community by being a public speaker, encouraging women in technology, and actively contributes to Python open source projects (Github Cheukting). Being a data ambassador in DataKind, she also provides data science solutions for charities. Cheuk is the co-author of Enterprise AI - An Applications Perspective  published by Data Science Central and is also an invited guest expert at the University of Oxford – Data Science for Internet of Things course for Time ... Read More

Feed: Events. Author: . Google Cloud Next ’19 is coming soon! Save the date: April 9-11, 2019 at Moscone Center in San Francisco.Google Cloud Next is where customers, partners, developers, influencers and the greater global cloud community come to get inspired and learn about Google Cloud Platform, G Suite, Maps, Devices and more great technology and solutions from across Google. Learn from customers and partners, and dive deep through hundreds of breakout sessions, code labs, demos and hands-on training.Unlock new opportunities for your business by interacting with the entire Google Cloud team, including our engineers, product leadership, developer advocates and ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Alyssa Johnson. Cloud computing skills are in high demand right now. However, on the down-side, statistics have shown that there is a shortage of cybersecurity professionals. Today, 40 percent of businesses are looking for ways to find employees who are qualified in this kind of computing.  By 2019, there will be 1.5 million job openings and the talent market are not expected to catch up to this demand. However, that doesn’t stop educators and organizations from bridging that gap. Thousands of quality resources are available to help both established engineers and budding techies get ... 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: Redis Labs. Author: Dave Provenza. It’s that time of year! No, I don’t mean the seasons changing. It’s RedisConf CfP time! This is your opportunity to talk about Redis in front of a gathering of fellow geeks. RedisConf ‘19 will be held April 2-3 at San Francisco’s Pier 27. That might seem like a long time from now, but we’re already busy putting together a schedule of sessions to ensure that April will be great. In the past, we’ve run into people who wanted to talk at RedisConf but were worried that they didn’t know everything about Redis, or ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: kjytay. I’m a casual NBA fan: I don’t have time to watch the games but enjoy viewing the highlights on Instagram/Youtube (especially Shaqtin’ A Fool!); I sometimes read game articles and analyses (e.g. Blogtable). Apart from the game being an amazing visual spectacle, it’s fun to drink in the deluge of stats that each game brings. I’m not even talking about advanced stats and “ABPRmetrics“: there’s something exciting about seeing how many different statistical records can be broken on a given night. As a data/stats person, I’ve been wanting to get my hands on NBA data and ... Read More