Tag: Documentation

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Katrine Spirina. 13 September 2019Author Katrine SpirinaThe mission of artificial intelligence (AI) is to assist humans in processing large amounts of analytical data and automate an array of routine tasks. Powerful data can facilitate decision-making and put a business strategy on the right track. But first, somebody should harvest useful data from multiple sources.Managing documents traditionally involves many repetitive tasks and requires much of the human workforce. As an example, the know-your-client (KYC) procedure or invoice processing needs someone in a company to go through hundreds of documents to handpick specific information.AI can automate document ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Postgres is the leading feature-full independent open-source relational database, steadily increasing its popularity for the past 5 years. TimescaleDB is a clever extension to Postgres which implements time-series related features, including under the hood automatic partioning, and more.Because he knows how I like investigate Postgres (among other things) performance, Simon Riggs (2ndQuadrant) prompted me to look at the performance of loading a lot of data into Postgres and TimescaleDB, so as to understand somehow the degraded performance reported in their TimescaleDB vs Postgres comparison. Simon provided support, including provisioning 2 AWS VMs for a few days each.SummaryThe ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Simon Mudd; If you use replication with MySQL, if you need a backup, if you need a spare copy of a system for testing and for many other reasons you need a way to make a copy of your MySQL system. In the past you could make a copy in various ways: using a cold file system copy with MySQL first shutdownusing MySQL Enterprise Backup, Xtrabackup from Percona or MariaBackup (an Xtrabackup fork). These work against an online running server. However, they required special binaries to run on the source in addition to the traditional mysqld.copying ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sudheer Sirivara. Animated character recognition, multilingual speech transcription and more now available At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. The media industry exemplifies this mission. We live in an age where more content is being created and consumed in more ways and on more devices than ever. At IBC 2019, we’re delighted to share the latest innovations we’ve been working on and how they can help transform your media workflows. Read on to learn more, or join our product teams and partners at Hall 1 ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Here are some highlights: We continue to add new features and make workflow improvements to Script Canvas visual scripting to save you time. In this release, Script Canvas gets greater flexibility working with dynamic types, new comment and group presets so you can define color code comments and groups, and the ability to disable nodes so you can test different graph structures more quickly. We've also added three new nodes for increased functionality: Repeater, Switch, and Ordered Sequencer. (A few months ago we released the Project N.E.M.O sample to help you get started with Script Canvas. Check ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Outi Nyman. This blog post was co-authored by Ricky Brundritt, Principal Technical Program Manager, Azure Maps. Azure Maps services continue to expand our support for Microsoft enterprise customers’ needs in Azure. And, we’ve been busy expanding our capabilities. Today we’re announcing Azure Maps is now available in Argentina, India, Morocco, and Pakistan. We have also launched a new Azure Maps data feedback site that is now in preview. In addition, we’re also introducing several enhancements that are available via our Representational state transfer (REST) services and Azure Maps web and Android SDKs. Here is a ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Mike Gilliland. The SAS Forecasting R&D team has an open position for a Forecasting and Machine Learning Specialist (apply here). What you’ll do As a Forecasting and Machine Learning Specialist on the SAS Forecasting R&D  team, you will help create innovative software to apply cutting-edge statistical methods to automated enterprise-scale business forecasting processes. You will: Work closely in a team-oriented environment with experts in computing and forecasting fields to develop state-of-the-art software for high-performance distributed multitier forecasting. Implement advanced analytical algorithms to solve business problems. Research computational algorithms. Design the software architecture based on product management requirements and present ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . The month of August was yet another busy one for the Power BI team. We continued to roll out new features and make updates across the stack. Here’s a quick recap of all the announcements in case you missed it: New capacity settings for Power BI Premium We started off by announcing five new settings for your Premium capacities in the admin portal. Now, you can set limits on “Max Offline Dataset Size” with the allowable range from 0.1 to 10 GB and even set limits on queries to prevent ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. Almost a decade ago, Neo4j took off as a transactional graph database management platform. Just a year after its initial launch, a new, powerful query language called Cypher was introduced to allow expressive, efficient querying and other interactions with the graph data in Neo4j. Today, Neo4j supports graph analytics including implementation of a wide variety of state-of-the-art graph algorithms with custom optimizations for Neo4j’s graph database model. It achieves unmatched performance in scalability, routinely running millions or even billions of nodes and edges.The next natural step for the platform in 2019 is ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Usage of additional metadata fields like vpc-id, subnet-id, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) bitmask reduce the number of computations and look-ups required to extract meaningful information from the log data. For example, you can use TCP bitmask to identify the resource initiating at TCP connection. Similarly, you can use the packet source and destination IP fields to identify the source resource and the intended target of a connection passing through a network interface attached to NAT Gateway or an AWS Transit Gateway. To learn more about these new metadata fields refer our blog here. You can deliver Amazon ... Read More