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Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Keith Kirkpatrick. Automation is the key to gaining efficiency in many industries. But for some types of work, basic automation, often referred to as robotic process automation (RPA), won’t suffice due to the complexity of the tasks. These can include assessing and analyzing content, finding patterns in data, and making decisions based on those findings. The legal industry is one vertical market that is ripe for increasing automation, particularly with respect to the review and analysis of legal contracts. While some information in a contract can be considered standard or boilerplate, most contracts contain very ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. During a pipeline execution, you can now access variables produced by select action types or default variables made available at the start of each pipeline execution. For example, you can use the commit message output from a CodeCommit source action to set a custom message in your manual approval action. You can also generate and export an endpoint URL from a build job and run tests against it in a following test action. For custom workflows, you can output any variables from a Lambda action to be used in subsequent actions. CodePipeline is a fully managed continuous ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. You can now add Python or PowerShell scripts in combination with existing Automation actions, such as getting approvals, calling AWS APIs, or running commands on your Amazon EC2 instances. For example, you can now filter for unencrypted EBS snapshots, generate a report, get approval, and encrypt them to enhance your security posture. You can also extend your script execution environment by attaching additional software packages. For example, you can use the newly published Amazon playbook, AWS-RunPacker, to run your Hashicorp Packer templates to build machine images.   Creating your own automation playbook is easy using the new ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: kjytay. When plotting an lm object in R, one typically sees a 2 by 2 panel of diagnostic plots, much like the one below: set.seed(1) x This link has an excellent explanation of each of these 4 plots, and I highly recommend giving it a read. Most R users are familiar with these 4 plots. But did you know that the plot() function for lm objects can actually give you 6 plots? It says so right in the documentation: We can specify which of the 6 plots we want when calling this function using the which option ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Bert Van Hoof. One of the most dynamic landscapes embracing Internet of Things (IoT) is the modern city. As urbanization grows, city leaders are under increasing pressure to make cities safer, accessible, sustainable, and prosperous. Underlying all these important goals is the bedrock that makes a city run: infrastructure. Whether it be water, electricity, streets, traffic lights, cities are increasingly using the Internet of Things (IoT) to manage their infrastructure by capturing and analyzing data from connected devices and sensors. This gives city managers real-time insights to improve operational efficiency and outcomes and to altogether ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Clint Wheelock. Voice and speech recognition technology has undergone a transformation in recent years, thanks to the successful utilization of machine learning and deep learning-based natural language processing (NLP) systems. According to a new report from Tractica, voice and speech recognition has become the tip of the technology spear for a broadening range of sophisticated voice services. Increasingly, companies are building viable market use cases in which the human voice will control highly sophisticated, automated processes and operations.Tractica forecasts that the global market for voice and speech recognition software will increase from $1.1 billion in ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Simple statistics enables customers to find the min, max, sum, average, standard deviation, variance, and sum of squares metrics of device data. For example, customers can find the average battery life across a fleet of devices to perform preventative maintenance. Percentiles enables customers to find percentile groupings across device data. For example, customers can identify overheating equipment in the 99th percentile of temperature. Cardinality enables customers to count unique values across device data. For example, customers can identify the number of distinct software versions running on connected sensors. These features are available to customers through the AWS ... Read More

Feed: Cloud Data Transformation Software | Matillion. Author: Ashley Lozito; Last week, over 130 data professionals tuned in to hear Kai Wolffram, Head of Analytics at TUI Group, share his lessons learned from TUI’s journey to the cloud. During the webinar, Kai spoke about the challenges he and his team encountered when trying to find the right home for their data. He also talked about the technical requirements they would need to consider to extract, load, and transform their data for analytics. TUI, the largest tour operator and leisure company in the world, is well known: it has 70,000 employees ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy to add speech-to-text capability to applications. Organizations can use Amazon Transcribe to create text transcripts of audio and video files quickly.  Amazon Transcribe enables organizations to increase the accessibility and discoverability of their audio and video content. The service is useful across a breadth of use cases. Customer contact centers can convert call recordings into text and analyze the data for actionable intelligence. Media content producers can automate subtitling workflows for greater engagement and accessibility. Enterprises and legal firms that have archives of recorded ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Pamela Fowler. Learn about the new way to engage Support Services at ActianWe are delighted to introduce the “Live Chat” feature, which was embedded in “Actian Communities” on November 11, 2019. It is a complete chat solution that enables instant chat support with Actian subject matter experts. Each chat request will be directed to the right subject matter expert, based on the Top-Level Product you choose when initiating the chat. Note that in the chat widget, you will see only the Top-Level Products that you own, instead of a long list of all Actian products. Answers can ... Read More