Tag: DATE

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Econometrics and Free Software. This blog post is an excerpt of my ebook Modern R with the tidyverse that you can read forfree here. This is taken from Chapter 5, which presentsthe {tidyverse} packages and how to use them to compute descriptive statistics and manipulate data.In the text below, I scrape a table from Wikipedia, which shows when African countries gainedindependence from other countries. Then, using {lubridate} functions I show you how you cananswers questions such as Which countries gained independence before 1960?. Set-up: scraping some data from Wikipedia {lubridate} is yet another tidyverse package, that makes ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. The following commit has happened in Postgres 12, adding a feature which allows to control and potentially enforce the protocol SSL connections can use when connecting to the server: commit: e73e67c719593c1c16139cc6c516d8379f22f182 author: Peter Eisentraut date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 21:49:01 +0100 Add settings to control SSL/TLS protocol version For example: ssl_min_protocol_version = 'TLSv1.1' ssl_max_protocol_version = 'TLSv1.2' Reviewed-by: Steve Singer Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/1822da87-b862-041a-9fc2-d0310c3da173@2ndquadrant.com As mentioned in the commit message, this commit introduces two new GUC parameters: ssl_min_protocol_version, to control the minimal version used as communication protocol. ssl_max_protocol_version, to control the maximum version used as communication protocol. Those can also ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MC Brown; Clickhouse is a relatively new analytics and datawarehouse engine that provides for very quick insertion and analysing of data. Like most analytics platforms it’s built on a column-oriented storage basis and unlike many alternatives is completely open source. It’s also exceedingly fast, even on relatively modest platforms.Clickhouse does have some differences from some other environments, for example, data inserted cannot easily be updated, and it supports a number of different storage and table engine formats that are used to store and index the information. So how do we get into that from our MySQL transactional ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Marcia Walker. Singer-songwriter David Wilcox kept me out of prison. That’s not a country song gone bad – it’s a real-life experience. Almost two decades ago, I attended a David Wilcox concert in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. His songs have always hooked my heart, and one in particular caught my attention that evening: “Rule Number One.” The song tells the tale of a first date gone awry. One party to the date seemed charming, funny, and attractive until – horrors – he was rude to the waiter. The song gives great advice: “If he’s rude to ... Read More

Feed: Hazelcast Blog. Author: Matt Wolpin. Each month the Hazelcast team writes and curates articles to help executives, architects and developers stay up-to-date on the latest news and information. With that in mind, here are five “must-reads” as determined by their popularity on social media. The Human Side of Microservices Armağan Amcalar, head of software engineering at unu GmbH, spoke about the human side of microservices at Codemotion Berlin 2018. InfoQ interviewed Amcalar to get his unique perspective on software architecture, microservices and DevOps. Apereo CAS High-Availability with Hazelcast and Kubernetes Misagh Moayyed, software engineer and IAM consultant at Unicon, ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Ruhaab Markas. Using Ask Data, anyone with a question can start typing and instantly get a response. Ask Data is fully embedded into the Tableau Server or Online experience. Simply select a data source and type in a question. No setup is required. Here’s how Ask Data makes it even easier to analyze your data: Easy and powerful analytical capabilities. Analyze your data with a simple statement or question. Rapidly iterate with additional questions by adding follow-up queries or statements. Our semantic models automatically enrich your data for more natural interactions. You can even add synonyms ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: David Schmidt; Apple has long touted the security of the operating system running its products. By praising iOS devices for integrated software and hardware, Apple created a narrative that users believe. As tempting as it is to trust your iPhone’s security out of the box, it’s important to take extra measures to ensure your data is safe. There’s a downside to locking down your iPhone, though. The more actions you take to protect it from security threats, the more cumbersome your experience using it can become. It’s up to you to decide the extent of safeguards you’re ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. Today we will continue our work on Fama French factor models, but more as a vehicle to explore some of the awesome stuff happening in the world of tidy models. For new readers who want get familiar with Fama French before diving into this post, see here where we covered importing and wrangling the data, here where we covered rolling models and visualization, my most recent previous post here where we covered managing many models, and if you’re into Shiny, this flexdashboard. Our goal today is to explore k-fold cross-validation via the rsample package, and ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Amy DeMartine. Each year at our Privacy and Security Forum events, we run a session called Hackers Versus Executives.  In this session, we ask a hacker to cause mayhem and then stop at different points in the attack to ask executives what their responses are.  This year we attacked applications including containerized and serverless applications.  Two months ago we closed our London event with our Hackers Versus Executives session.  As a throw back, here’s a look at my top 10 favorite responses our executives gave both in London and Washington D.C. (Note: at times, responses ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Kim Wilson. View more Problem Solvers postsSeveral years ago, I wrote a paper about the top-ten questions about the DATA step that SAS Technical Support receives from customers. Those topics are still popular among people who contact us for help. In this blog, I’m sharing some additional questions that we’re asked on a regular basis. Those questions cover SAS dates, arrays, and how to reference local PC files from SAS® Enterprise Guide® and SAS® Studio when those applications connect to a SAS® server in UNIX operating environments. About SAS® dates Let’s begin with dates. We regularly ... Read More