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Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Gavin L. Simpson. One of the specialist smoother types in the mgcv package is the Markov Random Field (MFR) smooth. This smoother essentially allows you to model spatial data with an intrinsic Gaussian Markov random field (GMRF). GRMFs are often used for spatial data measured over discrete spatial regions. MRFs are quite flexible as you can think about them as representing an undirected graph whose nodes are your samples and the connections between the nodes are specified via a neighbourhood structure. I’ve become interested in using these MRF smooths to include information about relationships between species. However, ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. CMO has recently reported the shocking news: “While 16% of U.S. jobs will be lost over the next decade as the result of artificial intelligence and technology, 13.6 million jobs will be created during that time due to the trend.” Artificial Intelligence is truly conquering the world. With an estimated $70 billion worth on the market, artificial intelligence is in its prime right now. It improves the economy, ensures higher security of governmental institutions, and takes medicine to a brand-new level of greatness. In fact, machines get ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Andrew Bartels. Forrester’s What It Means PodcastConversations with thought leaders to define and demystify the changing market. Listen or subscribe now    Is the US suffering a tech talent gap? That impression has been showing up in the press a lot, and seems to fit with a perception of a dysfunctional US education system. But while it may be challenging to recruit workers with certain tech skills, in a new Forrester report, “Debunking The US Tech Talent Shortage — Creative CIOs Will Find The Tech Talent They Need,” my colleague Nate Meneer and I conclude that ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. How are startup organizations able to innovate so quickly? Without the large monetary commitment to a physical infrastructure, they can lean on the cloud to provide an environment that allows them to fail—securely and without a large upfront investment.Government agencies are depending on the cloud to do exactly the same – set up an inexpensive environment to scale up and down as testing requires, and deliver the tools they need to improve the lives of their citizens. Why is failing important? Innovation is not easy. It doesn’t usually come on the ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. There are thousands of Big Data tools out there for data analysis today. Data analysis is the process of inspecting, cleaning, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information, suggesting conclusions, and supporting decision making. To save your time, in this post, I will list 30 top big data tools for data analysis in the areas of open source data tools, data visualization tools, sentiment tools, data extraction tools and databases. Open Source Data Tools 1. Knime KNIME Analytics Platform is the leading open ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Microsoft Azure. This post was authored by The Microsoft Cognitive Services Team. Microsoft Cognitive Services enables developers to augment the next generation of applications with the ability to see, hear, speak, understand, and interpret needs using natural methods of communication.   Today, we are announcing the general availability of Bing Custom Search API and Bing Search API v7. Showcased at Microsoft Ignite 2017 just last month, these APIs are now both available on the Azure Portal.  “We’re excited to bring to market this big Bing APIs release that includes new features, faster performance and new APIs. By ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. School districts and State Departments of Education are managing an increasing number of technology products and services that impact students and faculty. As state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) integrate more of these tools into their operations, the amount of student data being generated grows.Because these systems remain largely disconnected from one another, SEAs and LEAs are unable to secure, store, analyze, and report on the data in a unified way. The Ed-Fi Alliance seeks to change that by providing a data standard that allows previously disconnected educational ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. As part of Cybersecurity Awareness month, we announced a joint agreement to advance cybersecurity education efforts with the Organization of American States (OAS), the world’s oldest regional organization that brings together all 35 independent states of the Americas and constitutes the main political, juridical, and social governmental forum in the hemisphere.The OAS uses a four-pronged approach to effectively implement its essential purposes, based on its main pillars: democracy, human rights, security, and development. A focus for the OAS has been on providing regional leadership, educational efforts, and policy engagement on cybersecurity throughout ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. In this 2nd part of the series “Practical Machine Learning with R and Python – Part 2”, I continue where I left off in my first post Practical Machine Learning with R and Python – Part 2. In this post I cover the some classification algorithmns and cross validation. Specifically I touch-Logistic Regression-K Nearest Neighbors (KNN) classification-Leave out one Cross Validation (LOOCV)-K Fold Cross Validationin both R and Python. As in my initial post the algorithms are based on the following courses. You can download this R Markdown file along with the data from Github. I ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. on 12 OCT 2017 | in Public Sector | Permalink |  Share The AWS Quick Start for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) automates the deployment of a compliant AWS Cloud environment for healthcare workloads in just a few clicks. It builds a repeatable and auditable cloud reference architecture that addresses the 52 statutes of HIPAA Phase 1 and the 180 statutes of HIPAA Phase 2 that protect the privacy and security of health information. The Quick Start deploys a model environment that can help organizations with workloads that ... Read More