Tag: education

Feed: What's New. Author: Adriana Gil Miner. As the standard language of analytics for business users and analytics professionals, Tableau is one of the fastest-growing technical job skills in today's job market. And Tableau helps people learn and develop data skills fast. When people explore data in an easy, iterative way that provides immediate feedback, users feel more connected to their data, which leads to deeper understanding and better decisions. Tableau’s unique user experience paired with our industry-leading education and user enablement resources are proven to help people develop skills, unlock curiosity, and unleash their creativity using data—helping our customers ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) hosted a hackathon on January 22nd and February 5th. The hackathon provided AWS technologists and AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners with a collaborative opportunity to contribute to the greater good, innovating to solve some of the challenges the charity currently faces with its operations and objectives. Like many charities, the BHF is entirely reliant on the public’s generosity to fund its lifesaving research and receives no government funding.  With around seven million people in the UK living with heart and circulatory ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Yongfu, Liao. Taiwan Language Survey is a small project I worked on during May to June in 2018. The idea was to create a survey that continuously collects data and a web page that visualizes the collected data. The web page is updated weekly using Travis-CI.The main purpose of this survey is to raise public awareness of language loss in Taiwan. Hence, the survey is designed to collect data that can provide valuable information about language loss, for example, some questions were asked to gain insight about the change of linguistic competence acoss generations in a family ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Staci Lyon. In honor of Black History Month, let’s showcase a few African American mathematicians who have made their mark in the teaching profession.  Elbert Frank Cox (1895-1969) was the first black person in the world to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. In 1917, Cox earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Indiana, where he majored in mathematics. After serving overseas in World War I, he pursued a career in teaching. He taught in several public schools and then at Shaw University. In 1922, Dr. Cox enrolled in the graduate mathematics program at Cornell University. Encouraged by ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. When upgrading a school district’s infrastructure, the administration thinks about the physical buildings as well as the IT. In 2018, Portland Public Schools began tackling both. The district is visibly renovating many of its high schools, but behind the scenes, they also migrated to the cloud, increasing both performance and capacity for their users.Travis Paakki, Sr. Director of Technology, Portland Public Schools, started around the time the district’s sizeable enterprise resource planning (ERP) install was nearing its end of life. The IT team was faced with a choice – either refresh ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. We are excited to announce that now anyone can create and publish an Alexa skill in minutes, with no coding required, using Alexa Skill Blueprints. Skill Blueprints enable anyone to create and share customized Alexa skills simply by filling in the blanks to one of dozens of easy-to-use templates. Now, anyone can publish skills created using Alexa Skill Blueprints to the Alexa Skills Store in the US for customers to discover, use, and review. We’re also excited to announce new Skill Blueprints built specifically for content creators, bloggers, and organizations, so they can reach ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Georgetown University’s Hoya Hacks recently hosted a hackathon for social impact as part of the official Major League Hacking (MLH) 2019 season. Two hundred students from around the Washington, D.C, metro area spent 36 hours on campus building solutions on a variety of themes— gender equality, cybersecurity, digital forensics, and social innovation.Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS Educate sponsored the event, donating the time of several solutions architects. They led a workshop on chatbot integration, provided AWS Promotional Credits for students to build, and showcased technology resources available to students though ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: matthew-johnsen; Today at Think 2019, IBM announced a new vision for the future of AI and digital transformation. Along the way, we made a number of announcements and updates that could profoundly impact how enterprises will use analytics and AI to shape the future of their business. In all, it was definitely a big day of news for IBM partners and clients. In case you missed it, here are three major announcements for analytics pros from Think 2019: Watson Anywhere. We are now living in a multicloud world. The average ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Laura Ramos. Extra, extra! Read all about it! TOPO declares that 86% of account-based organizations report improved close rates, and 80% say account-based strategies are driving increased customer lifetime value! TribalVision channels the ITSMA when it reports that companies implementing account-based marketing (ABM) strategies typically see a 171% increase in annual contract value! Really? Wow — huh, haven’t seen that way from where I’m standing. From my (tenuous?) perch atop Forrester’s ABM research pile, it looks like FOMO* (more than anything) is driving marketers to take up the ABM banner. Our research, trends studies, and customer ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Laura Ramos. Extra, extra! Read all about it! TOPO declares that“86% of account-based organizations report improved close rates and 80% say it is driving increased customer lifetime value!” TribalVision channels the ITSMA when it reports, “Companies that implement ABM strategies typically see 171% increase in annual contract value!” Really?  Wow.  Huh, haven’t seen that way from where I’m standing. From my (tenuous?) perch atop Forrester’s ABM research pile, it looks like FOMO* (more than anything) is driving marketers to take up the ABM banner.  Our research, trends study, and customer interactions show that ABM continues ... Read More