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Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor’s note: This post was originally published on an internal blog for Puppet employees. We’ve shared it here for a behind-the-scenes look into the UX practices at Puppet.For the new role-based access control (RBAC) feature for Puppet Tasks, we adopted a new agile approach to define, design and plan the feature. In this blog post, I’d like to walk you through the UX side of the process.Agile practices and UX design have felt like opposing methodologies for most of my career up until this point. In the past when I designed only in ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Why is Puppet Strings such a big deal?The hard truth is that it’s difficult to keep your module’s documentation up to date as things change over time. We know that most users coming to the Puppet Forge are looking for module documentation. If you want people to use your module, it’s important to have complete and accurate docs. With Puppet Strings, it’s a lot easier to keep your module docs both accurate and complete because they live in your module’s source code. Whether you’re adding a new parameter or refactoring a custom type, ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R on OSM. Say you’ve built a little nest egg thanks to some discipline and frugality. And now you realize that you should probably invest that money so that you’ve got something to live off of in retirement. Or perhaps you simply want to earn a better return than stashing your cash underneath your bed, I mean your savings account. How do you choose the assets? What amount of money should you put into each asset? Should you keep the same relative weighting or should you change it? And if you do change it, how frequently?These questions ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; The release of PDK v1.3 introduced the convert feature for making existing modules compatible with PDK. You can read more about that in Helen Campbell’s blog post, A guide to converting a module with PDK. With PDK v1.4, we are introducing a follow-up to that feature called update. Where convert is meant to get your old modules on the road to developing with PDK, the update feature will help ensure that your module stays on it!We've focused on some important aspects of the module developer workflow to make it simple and accessible to ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R on Rob J Hyndman. [This article was first published on R on Rob J Hyndman, 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. library(tidyverse) library(tsibble) library(readabs) library(raustats) Australian data analysts will know how frustrating it is to work with time series data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. They are stored as multiple ugly Excel files (each containing multiple sheets) with inconsistent formatting, embedded comments, meta data stored along ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Mayra Pena; Liquid Web’s Director of Affiliate Marketing on channeling her talents and energy, her inspirations, and why she loves working in tech. “In Liquid Web, I found a company where not only do I get to work in an industry that I love, but that has products that I am proud of and feel blessed to be apart of,” says Saralyn Scherer.A little known fact about Saralyn Scherer: she once won a scholarship for singing opera in Italian. It won’t come as much of a surprise then, that in her high school days, Scherer sang ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Dr. Laurie Miles. Mathematics and artificial intelligence (AI) are natural partners. I can only apologise to anyone who hated maths at school for this statement, but to my mind, it’s impossible to engage with AI without understanding some maths. One commentator summed it up: “A person working in the field of AI who doesn’t know math is like a politician who doesn’t know how to persuade. Both have an inescapable area to work upon!” Maths and AI: Inextricably linked Why does maths matter for AI? Surely the point of AI is that the algorithm learns for ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Katharine Marais; Amid the buzz surrounding AI (a Gartner survey in 2018 reports that “11% of marketing technology executives reported AI as their top choice as the technology that would have the most impact on their marketing efforts in the next five years”), business leaders may ask if AI (artificial intelligence) is really mature and valuable today for marketing and sales- and if so, how it can be tangibly implemented.  Table of Contents Is there such a thing as AI marketing? According to McKinsey & Co., AI does currently offer real value for marketing ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Robert Allison. The flu season has started here in the U.S., and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data it has caused 214 deaths in the first week of 2020. Is this number higher, or lower, than usual? When does the flu season start, and how long does it last? Sounds like a fine excuse to create some graphs - follow along, and I'll show you how! The Data The CDC has a flu page, and towards the bottom there's a "Pneumonia and Influenza (P&I) Mortality Surveillance" graph (the black & red ... Read More

Author: joeleslie. At NuoDB, we’ve not only been working hard to improve upon on our distributed SQL database engine, but also to make it easier to adopt NuoDB into CI/CD pipelines. NuoDB is a ANSI standard and ACID compliant SQL database that is suitable for all common deployment models, such as bare-metal, virtual machines, cloud and hybrid-cloud, and most recently container-based environments, such as Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. At its core, NuoDB is designed to be highly scalable and fault-tolerant with the ability to load-balance across a distributed architecture.If you would like to try NuoDB’s Community Edition (CE) in Docker, ... Read More