Tag: data analytics

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; In the past ten years, companies have been able to expand and scale at a pace never seen before, prompting the Harvard Business Review to coin the term “hypergrowth.” For most people, the phrase calls to mind trendy startups and technology companies. But the truth is that the Fourth Industrial Revolution is making hypergrowth a reality across all industries. As the World Economic Forum points out: “The 1990s and 2000s saw the rapid rise of internet giants, but as software and computing technology have supportively reinforced the progress in other domains, we ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Baron Schwartz (xaprb); For various reasons, I’ve become interested in analytical databases. These are traditionally called OLAP (online analytics processing) and are designed to extract insights from very large datasets, often with expectations of long response times (hours). More recently, though, various databases capable of running relatively interactive queries over large datasets have emerged. This post is more-or-less a list of analytic databases, with somewhat of a taxonomy added. As with any list of this type, categories are inexact, and I’m sure this is only partial. I’m making some value judgments about what to mention and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. AWS services are used throughout the United States by state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies. Customers can create customized cloud-based environments for CJI workloads with training and helpful resources provided by AWS to meet CJIS requirements. Backed by the secure and tested AWS network, customers can feel comfortable putting sensitive workloads in AWS.Many customers that manage sensitive data – including law enforcement agencies, child welfare agencies, motor vehicle departments, financial institutions, and healthcare organizations – are comfortable deploying workloads on AWS GovCloud (US) as the region is designed to meet ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Law enforcement applications are increasingly becoming integrated with the cloud. Whether through computer-aided dispatch, records management, or data analytics, the cloud is enabling officers to accomplish new tasks, including:Uploading, storing, and securing massive quantities of data directly from mobile devices; Accessing records from multiple databases at once; Deploying and tracking emergency response units; Enhancing situational awareness; Dictating and submitting incident reports from the field; and Automating and accelerating transcription and data collection services. To understand the value of cloud computing for police investigations, let’s first compare the traditional way police departments ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Welcome to Azure DevOps The big news last week was the introduction of Azure DevOps, which represents the evolution of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). Azure DevOps is a set of five new services that can be used together as a unified product, independently as stand-alone services or in any combination: Azure Pipelines, Azure Boards, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, and Azure Artifacts. Azure Pipelines is a fully-managed CI/CD service that enables developers to continuously build, test, and deploy any type of app, to any platform or cloud, which is available with free, ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Hugo Bowne-Anderson. Here is a link to the podcast. Hugo: Hi there, Renée, and welcome to DataFramed. Renée: Hi Hugo. Great to be here. Hugo: It’s great to have you on the show and I’m really excited to talk about all the things we’re gonna talk about today, the podcast that you worked on for so long, the idea of becoming a data scientist and your journey and process there, but before that I’d like to find out a bit about you. Maybe you can tell us a bit about what you’re known for in the data ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Pedro URIA RECIO. Scene from The Incredibles 2 Promising data-minded individuals are easy to spot from the distance: curious detailed-oriented thinkers, energized by uncertainty, open to opposed opinions and willing work in team iteratively to produce insightful recommendations, but still with feet on the ground. The analytics job market is nascent and employers compete fiercely for the best people. Sadly, salary benchmarks are unavailable or do not reflect the market since the common practice is not to pay a benchmark but to just give a rise. Simply paying a premium to ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. Rapid innovations in both web and technology today have made it easier for schools and colleges to reach out to more and more students as the urge to market students intensifies. Higher education institutions across the length and breadth of the globe are trying to get habitual to the ability to analyze, access and manage vast volume of data. Colleges now have more complicated ways of collecting and reacting to data about students, so they can target them in more specific ways than ever. Further, both, competition ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Bushfires are frequent events in the warmer months of the year when the climate is hot and dry. Countries like Australia and the United States are severely impacted due to the bushfires causing devastating effects to human lives and property. Over the years the prediction of bushfires has been a subject of study in various research projects. Many of these projects use complex machine learning algorithms. These algorithms learn to predict the bushfires from the real-time spread for the fire over a particular geographical region­.In this blog post, we use event processing paradigm provided by ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Brian O'Neill. This is an excerpt from "Design for nondesigners: Increasing revenue, usability, and utility within data analytics products." Watch the full video on O'Reilly's online learning platform. In this video segment, Brian O’Neill discusses self-assessment questions to make products more indispensable, profitable, and usable. Watch the full video on O'Reilly's online learning platform. Article image: Labyrinth (source: Pixabay). Brian O'Neill is a product designer and founder of the consultancy Designing for Analytics, which helps organizations design indispensable data products and analytics solutions. He has worked with companies including DELL/EMC, Tripadvisor, Fidelity, NetApp, MITRE, ... Read More