Tag: constraints

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Courtney Allen. TV genome visualization (source: bluefin on Wikimedia Commons) Jay Jacobs will teach a two-day tutorial course on data analysis and machine learning for cybersecurity at the O'Reilly Security Conference, October 29 to November 1, 2017, in New York City. Early price ends September 14. Subscribe to the O'Reilly Security Podcast to examine the challenges and opportunities for security practitioners, with a focus on the people on the frontlines of security, working to build better defenses. Find us on Stitcher, iTunes, SoundCloud, RSS. In this episode of the Security Podcast, Courtney Nash, former ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. Since starting a new role at Teradata with the responsibility of supporting our financial services sales and consulting teams across the globe, I’ve decided now is a good time to document some thoughts on the challenges and opportunities before us. Can a coherent vision and agenda for analytics truly transform capabilities, particularly in legacy financial services environments? Read on and you’ll find out. To set the scene, what are the major pain points for financial services? Well, that depends on your perspective, but for legacy institutions there are a raft of challenges ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Christie Gifrin. Sam Dengler, Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Serverless architectures allow solution builders to focus on solving challenges particular to their business, without assuming the overhead of managing infrastructure in AWS. AWS Lambda is a service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers.When using Lambda in a serverless architecture, the goal should be to design tightly focused functions that do one thing and do it well. When these functions are composed to accomplish larger goals in microservice architectures, the complexity shifts from the internal components to the external communication between components ... Read More

Feed: Featured Posts - Hadoop360. Author: Andrew Lion. Guest blog post by Mohammad Tariq Iqbal Quite often, while working with Hbase, I used to feel how cool it would be to have a database that can replicate my data to datacenters across the world consistently. So that I can take the pleasure of global availability and geographic locality. And also which will save my data even in case of some catastrophe or natural disaster. Which supports general-purpose transactions, and provides a SQL-based query language. And which has features of an SQL database as well. But it was only untill recently I found out that ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: David Sweenor. The development of Big Data, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics has created extravagant expectations for enterprise productivity growth — and aroused popular anxiety about intelligent information systems taking jobs from human workers. It is ironic, against that backdrop, that what is holding back widespread adoption of these technologies is, of all things, a manpower shortage. Big data and advanced analytics are the products of data science. What keeps companies from putting them to effective use is an acute shortage of data scientists. The US alone is facing a projected ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. When your database is small (10s of GB), it’s easy to throw more hardware at the problem and scale up. As these tables grows however, you need to think about other ways to scale your database. In one way, sharding is the best way to scale. Sharding enables you to linearly scale your database’s cpu, memory, and disk resources by separating your database into smaller parts. In other ways, sharding is a controversial topic. The internet is full of advice on sharding, from “essential to scaling your database infrastructure” to “why you never want to shard”. So ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle today announced the launch of two new solutions: Oracle Banking Liquidity Management and Oracle Banking Corporate Lending. These offerings are designed to meet the needs of banks looking to provide real-time, multi-currency, cross border, multi-entity banking services while maintaining high fidelity insight and multi-jurisdictional compliance. “The constraints of geographies, currencies, time-zones, cash and credit have lesser relevance in the world of digital corporates,” said Chet Kamat, senior vice president, Oracle Financial Services “With the shift towards digital it is critical that banks transform to cater to the emerging needs of their corporate customers. It ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. To help organizations meet rapidly changing business demands, Oracle today announced significant expansions to Oracle Supply Chain Management (SCM) Cloud. Part of Oracle Cloud Applications Release 13, the latest release of Oracle SCM Cloud delivers a comprehensive, next-generation supply chain platform that enables organizations to embrace outside-in demand driven processes and capabilities without the complexities and constraints of traditional supply chain architectures. The new release includes a number of innovative solutions including: supplier collaboration, quality management, maintenance, sales and operations planning, demand management, and supply planning, as well as expansions across all existing solutions. To ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Casey Stella. The Challenge Apache Metron, at its core, is a streaming analytics solution.  Yes, it is a streaming analytics solution aimed at detecting and prioritizing cyber threats at your network’s doorstep.  Yes, it’s built atop Hadoop.  Putting the end-game aside, it’s easy to see that the challenges that such a system faces are precisely the challenges faced in any streaming analytics solution. Put short, the job of any analytics solution, streaming or otherwise, is to provide insights.  Better insights generally follow from more context.  By example, consider a logon event, how might we ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Bob Carpenter. Here’s the roundup for this past week. Michael Betancourt added case studies for methodology in both Python and R, based on the work he did getting the ML meetup together: Michael Betancourt, along with Mitzi Morris, Sean Talts, and Jonah Gabry taught the women in ML workshop at Viacom in NYC and there were 60 attendees working their way up from simple linear regression, through Poisson regression to GPs. Ben Goodrich has been working on new R^2 analyses and priors, as well as the usual maintenance on RStan and RStanArm. Aki Vehtari was at the ... Read More