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Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Subhro Kar. CALL SYMPUT and CALL SYMPUTX CALL SYMPUT and CALL SYMPUTX in SAS are the most commonly used DATA Step call routines to interact with the Macro Facility in SAS. Both are used to assign a value of DATA step to a macro variable. SYNTAX: CALL SYMPUT(macro-variable, value); Arguments are macro-variable and can be one of the following items: a character string that is a SAS name, enclosed in quotation marks. It can contain the name of a character variable. A character expression to create a macro variable name. You ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Sergey Lukyanchikov. InterSystems IRIS – the All-Purpose Universal Platform for Real-Time AI/ML Author: Sergey Lukyanchikov Challenges of real-time AI/ML computations We will start from the examples that we faced as Data Science practice at InterSystems: A “high-load” customer portal is integrated with an online recommendation system. The plan is to reconfigure promo campaigns at the level of the entire retail network (we will assume that instead of a “flat” promo campaign master there will be used a “segment-tactic” matrix). What will happen to the recommender mechanisms? What will happen to data ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R | Quantum Jitter. [This article was first published on R | Quantum Jitter, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here)Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.Reading news articles on the will-they-won’t-they post-Brexit trade negotiations with the EU sees days of optimism jarred by days of gloom. Do negative news articles, when one wants a positive outcome, leave a deeper impression?I wondered if I could get a more objective view from quantitative analysis of textual data ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: » R. [This article was first published on R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here)Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.I first got to grips with the R coding language to do the statistical analysis for my dissertation, but I still did all my actual writing in more traditional word processing apps. This became a pain any time I needed to copy-paste an update into a table or, even worse, change a plot and re-export ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an important aspect of today’s technology world, and processing data in compliance with GDPR is a necessity for those who implement solutions within the AWS public cloud. One article of GDPR is the “right to erasure” or “right to be forgotten” which may require you to implement a solution to delete specific users’ personal data.In the context of the AWS big data and analytics ecosystem, every architecture, regardless of the problem it targets, uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as the core storage service. Despite its versatility and ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Keri Harling. 1. Join Tableau for Students or Tableau for Teaching Program We’ve helped over one million students and instructors find empowerment in Tableau. Students and instructors can receive free licenses and eLearning through our Academic Programs. 2. Schedule your exam It may sound crazy but schedule your exam first. It's counter-intuitive, but setting a deadline for yourself will drive you to study. After you’ve been verified as a student, you will receive a 20% discount off the Tableau Certification Exam. The discount applies automatically during checkout. Your exam will be valid for six months after ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Todd Terwillegar; We’re the employees you would hire if you could. Responsive, helpful, and dedicated in ways automation simply can’t be. We’re your team. Each month we recognize one of our Most Helpful Humans in Hosting. Meet David Richards David Richard’s path to Liquid Web differs from most. He started his career as an English teacher at a middle school in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, enjoying teaching immensely. He then moved to the Lansing area to try his hand at teaching college. All along the way, he continuously dabbled in technology. When his time at ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Theory meets practice.... Abstract:We attempt a mathematical description of the risk scoring algorithm used in the Google and Apple exposure notification framework (v1). This algorithm is used in many digital contact tracing apps for COVID-19, e.g., in Germany or Switzerland. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The markdown+Rknitr source code of this blog is available under a GNU General Public License (GPL v3) license from github.MotivationMy phone runs a digital COVID-19 contact tracing app based on the Apple and Google exposure notification (GAEN) framework [Apple| Google| Wikipedia]. Since my future health ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Tracy Rodgers. Data Management solutions have been in the market for 30+ years. However, they’ve always focused on solving data management problems from the perspective of IT. This can lead to data being duplicated, mistrusted, or too locked down. In today’s world, we have more data, in more formats, at different levels (from enterprise to departmental to individual data needs), and in more places than ever before. At the same time, more people are expected to use data to do their jobs effectively and efficiently. This is where we’re seeing a gap. Everyone in an organization ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . The ‘new look’ of the Power BI service is evolving again based on your feedback during public preview and close to being the default experience for all users. We’ve made navigation updates to give you more space to work with your content, provided options for report authors to configure their page navigation, updated the action bar for quicker access to common actions, and more. Please see updates and a recap of ‘new look’ below. And thank you! Your feedback has been crucial during development of the ‘new look’. We’re excited ... Read More