Tag: education

Feed: Actian. Author: Andre Beauchamp. Due to the global outbreak of COVID-19, schools worldwide had to shut down quickly. While many schools already operated with some online component, most were not equipped to become 100% digital in a matter of days. Further, it’s looking as if most school districts and higher education campus systems will have to adopt some sort of hybrid approach as a means of transitioning back to some level of in-person instruction and laboratories.  With our own online portal for digital learning, we saw a 200% increase in activity after the outbreak put schools on a total learn-from-home ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Data Enthusiast's Blog. [This article was first published on Data Enthusiast's Blog, 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.IntroductionThere are often situations when you need to perform repetitive plotting tasks. For example, you’d like to plot the same kind of data (e.g. the same economic indicator) for several states, provinces, or cities. Here are some ways you can address this:But what if the data is too complex to fit into ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. Excellent Long-Established (ELECT) University Consortium of Taiwan and Amazon Web Services (AWS), through AWS Educate, launched a new cloud computing degree program to prepare students for cloud-enabled jobs. The new four-year program will help to prepare the next generation of cloud professionals with specific skills needed for in-demand entry-level cloud careers in Taiwan. Taiwan is the first in the Asia Pacific region to announce an AWS Educate Cloud Degree Program implementation—a collaboration between AWS Educate, employers, and education institutions to prepare students for in-demand careers in cloud computing by ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Murray de Villiers. Data science is heading for a problem. We know that it is a "shortage speciality" – that demand for data science skills outweighs the supply. However, a survey by McKinsey two years ago shows that the situation could be even worse than expected. Around one-third of those responding to McKinsey’s survey said that they believed that automation would result in significant skills shortages in data analytics within the next three years. Worse, those making this observation were the companies with more experience of automation and AI use. The general consensus was that the ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. For the past half-decade, the field of People Analytics has undergone significant growth and has been adopted by a number of organizations. The organizations that have developed advanced skills in analytics are witnessing positive business outcomes and better employee experiences. Teradata Vantage contributed to the growth of People Analytics by empowering Teradata’s platform with NewSQL, Machine Learning and Graph Engine which has enabled users to build an end-to-end analytical pipeline on a single platform. One of the leading telecom companies of South Asia wanted to leverage the power of People Analytics to predict which of their key employees were ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Neil Dunay. The figure above shows the top eight early adopter industries as the purple bubbles. The x-axis (horizontal) shows how COVID-19 has affected the forecast (% change) for cumulative 2019–25 AI software revenue from Omdia’s 4Q19 forecast to the current 2Q20 forecast. The y-axis (vertical) shows the current 2019–25 CAGR estimate, and the size of the bubbles indicate the relative size of AI software market. Forecasting AI is never an easy task, even in the calmest economic times. Then came the COVID-19 pandemic, which upended everything. The effects on the global AI software market ... 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.Joshua M. Rosenberg, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of STEM Education at theUniversity of Tennessee, Knoxville.In earlier posts, we shared how we wrote Data Science in Education UsingR as an open book(Post 1,Post 2).In this post, we describe what we consider to be the open-source authorshipprocess we took to write the book.We think of open-source ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Adam Selipsky. The tragedies and brutality that have occurred over the past weeks have left us with heavy hearts. Together with our community we honor and mourn the lives of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, Ahmaud Arbery, Riah Milton, Dominique Fells, Malcolm Harsch, Robert Fuller, and so many others who were taken. And I’m personally heartened to see so many people across the country stand up, speak out, march, and demand real, lasting change to end systemic racism against Black people in the United States. That progress will not happen without tremendous effort, and demands ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: jennifer-clemente; Follow @IBMAnalyticsTalent: It’s a key issue impacting today's AI-hungry organizations. While AI skills are in high demand, organizations admit they’re hard to come by. In fact, the lack of talent scarcity has been called out as one of the top three hurdles to AI adoption, after data complexity, and a lack of trust in AI systems. IBM’s first ever Data and AI Virtual Forum brings together AI leaders across a variety of disciplines to dissect the talent problem and offer up fresh solutions based on successful use cases. See ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of the 2020 AWS Imagine Grant. The AWS Imagine Grant is a public grant opportunity open to registered 501(c) nonprofit organizations in the United States who are using technology to solve the world’s most pressing challenges.Eligible nonprofit organizations of all sizes and mission areas take on the challenge of writing their own Amazon-style-six-pagers as part of the grant application. We are always inspired by the heart and data that drives these narratives. This is an opportunity to share with us the ... Read More