Tag: data scientist

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. Roland Stevenson is a data scientist and consultant who may be reached on Linkedin. When setting up R and RStudio Server on a cloud Linux instance, some thought should be given to implementing a workflow that facilitates collaboration and ensures R project reproducibility. There are many possible workflows to accomplish this. In this post, we offer an “opinionated” solution based on what we have found to work in a production environment. We assume all development takes place on an RStudio Server cloud Linux instance, ensuring that only one operating system needs to be supported. We ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Vincent Granville. Monday newsletter published by Data Science Central. Previous editions can be found here. The contribution flagged with a + is our selection for the picture of the week. To subscribe, follow this link.   Announcements Closing the Industrial Skills Gap with Industrial AR. Download your free copy to discover: Four reasons why skills shortages are more than a "retirement problem". Three main strategies used to preserve skilled resources. Five ways that industrial AR is a proven game-changer. Two customer examples of rapid, repeatable AR success. Earn a Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics online from Penn ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Arvid Kingl. Categories Data Management Tags Case Study Data Manipulation Data Visualisation R Programming tidyverse This article was jointly written by Arvid J. Kingl & Viktor Konakovsky The Battle for Wesnoth is an open-source, turn-based strategy game. The game world is rich, with several factions, maps and literally hundreds of available units. In this tutorial, you will learn how to transform a medium-sized data sets, such as game metadata, into a useful format for further analysis using R. You will learn what key principles a tidy data set adheres to, why it is useful to follow them ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: William Vorhies. Summary:  McKinsey says platform companies will represent 30% of global business revenue by next year (2020).  In Part 1 of this article we started to lay out some important lessons learned and examples for you to follow.  Here are the rest.   McKinsey says platform companies will represent 30% of global business revenue by next year (2020).  In Part 1 of this article we started to lay out some important lessons learned and examples for you to follow.  Here are the rest. The goal here is to describe how ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Preview | News & updates | Technical content | Azure shows | Events | Customers, partners, and industries Now in preview Hybrid storage performance comes to Azure When it comes to adding a performance tier between compute and file storage, Avere Systems has led the way with its high-performance caching appliance known as the Avere FXT Edge Filer. Last week at NAB, attendees will got a first look at the new Azure FXT Edge Filer, now with even more performance, memory, SSD, and support for Azure Blob. Since Microsoft’s acquisition of Avere last ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. As technology makes it easier to connect with constituents, state and local governments are looking to build systems centered around and empowered by the citizen experience. This is especially the case with health and social services agencies.Public health systems often struggle to connect data across agencies and systems—leaving some communities without the insights they need to optimally allocate resources or to take action in the face of emerging epidemics. In a keynote address to over 800 government health IT leaders, Taha Kass-Hout, senior leader of healthcare and artificial intelligence at Amazon ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: wennie-allen; I am working on a project that requires a lot of research on how people are using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in real-world business cases. While AI and ML are two of the hottest trends in technology, they don’t seem to be proliferating as widely or as quickly as we would expect.In fact, according to an Economist Intelligence Unit survey, 70 percent of business executives rated analytics as “very” or “extremely important.” But just 2 percent say they have already achieved “broad positive results.” There ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. Data science libraries, frameworks, modules, and toolkits are great for doing data science, but they’re also a good way to dive into the discipline without actually understanding data science. With this updated second edition, you’ll learn how many of the most fundamental data science tools and algorithms work by implementing them from scratch. If you have an aptitude for mathematics and some programming skills, author Joel Grus will help you get comfortable with the math and statistics at the core of data science, and with hacking skills you need to ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon SageMaker is a fully-managed service that enables every developer and data scientist to build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly and easily. SageMaker provides fully-managed Jupyter notebooks that run industry-standard open-source computing software. Jupyter notebooks are used for many different tasks such as cleaning and transforming data, visualizing data, running numerical simulations, and building statistical and machine learning models. You can use the AWS management console or the AWS API actions to enable or disable root access for notebook instances. The controlled root access limits the access and edit of all files on the compute ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon SageMaker is a fully-managed service that enables every developer and data scientist to build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly and easily. Amazon SageMaker P3 instances significantly accelerate machine learning applications with up to 8 NVIDIA® V100 Tensor Core GPUs and reduce machine learning training times from days to minutes. For more information about the new prices, visit the Amazon SageMaker pricing page ... Read More