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Feed: Radar. Author: Peter Skomoroch and Mike Loukides. Edit note: The increasing push to adopt AI into product, across many industries, puts the intersection of AI and product management into sharp focus. Challenges abound: non-deterministic outcomes, uncertainty (schedule, accuracy, relevance), opacity (models can be difficult to understand and explain), fairness issues, and other factors make AI a difficult sell to decision-makers and upper management. Here, Pete Skomoroch and Mike Loukides layout, in detail and with helpful supporting examples, what makes AI different, how to address those differences, and how product managers can better align their efforts in pragmatic support of ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. Photo by Christin Hume on Unsplash To help the global education community during a period of increased remote learning, AWS Educate is launching an “Educator Mobilization” initiative to provide resources that support educators as they migrate to virtual instruction. Launching the week of April 6th, resources will include webinars hosted by educators who are members of AWS Educate with expertise teaching in online classrooms, as well as virtual office hours. As K12 school systems and higher education institutions across the world transition in-person classrooms to virtual environments, ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Nagdev. [This article was first published on R – Hi! I am Nagdev, 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. As a data scientist, I always seek to learn about out new tools and techniques. Although research papers are a great resource to learn, they are mostly either theoretical or lack in hands on explanation. Blogs are a great way to learn if you like me. They are concise, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Dr. Andrew Jones. Cloud-based technology is supporting healthcare organisations and governments in response to the evolving COVID-19 situation. Healthcare providers and professionals, governments, and patients around the world face are facing an unprecedented challenge. Healthcare organizations and workers are on the frontline serving those affected by the illness and collaborating to find a cure. Healthcare organisations are adapting to this new way of working—from remote working to creating new diagnosis and care models to enhancing research. Some healthcare professionals are remotely reviewing, triaging, and addressing incoming requests from citizens and patients and ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. Affiliation Harrison – Center for Strategic and Budgetary Analysis, Washington DC Cara – Department of the Air Force (Studies, Analyses, and Assessments – AF/A9), Washington DC Disclaimer The views expressed in this article represent the personal views of the author and are not necessarily the views of the Department of Defense (DoD) ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Edgar Haren. Organizations across the globe are using advanced analytics and data science to predict and make decisions. They are finding ways to use their vast and diverse data stores to predict the best place to put their next retail store, what products to recommend to customers, how many employees they need for peak hours of operation, and how long a piece of machinery has until it needs maintenance. Public sector organizations in government, education, nonprofit, and healthcare are looking to use data to advance their missions too.Expanding and improving government response ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Rachel Van Dinter. AWS EdStart Members are on a mission to bridge the personalized learning gap between students and educational institutions through artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platforms built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). These organizations are enabling students to follow their own learning pathways across writing, math, and reading, at their own pace, anytime, and anywhere. Learn about three AWS EdStart Members and how they adapt to student learning and virtually assist self-study. Using social and gamification elements to make learning fun and engaging Joni.AI is an AI-powered adaptive math learning and assessment ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Kelly Wanser. Dendra Systems is a technology-enabled service provider addressing restoration of natural ecosystems globally. The company developed an automation and intelligence solution to support large-scale restoration of natural ecosystems, the protection of our climate, and the sustainability of our natural world. As part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative, we invited Kelly Wanser, Board Director at Dendra Systems, to share how the organization is using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and big data to provide insights that help assess and restore at-risk ecosystems. The world needs more (than) trees The world’s forests have ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. I’m happy to announce that Oracle is offering free access to online learning content and certifications for a broad array of users for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Autonomous Database. This program kicks off on Monday, March 30, 2020, and will be available until May 15, 2020. Starting now, any user, including developers, technical professionals, architects, students and professors, will have quick and easy access to more than 50 hours of online training and 6 certification exams. Oracle University will provide users with free access to an extensive library of materials for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Robert Allison. Now that COVID-19 is spreading in the US, I thought it might be helpful to view the data at a more granular level. Follow along as I plot the county data on a map and discuss how the color-binning can influence people's perception of the data. Maps like this can be helpful, as they can help you track where the virus has spread - and perhaps more importantly, where it hasn't spread. County Data First I needed a source for the US county-level coronavirus data. After a bit of web searching, I found that ... Read More