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Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Akosua Boateng. [This article was first published on RStudio 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. Photo by JD Long We are excited to announce the fourth formal summer internship program at RStudio. The goal of our internship program is to enable RStudio employees to collaborate with current students to do impactful work that not only helps both RStudio users and the broader community, but ensures that the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: J.D. Bean. Government, education, nonprofit, healthcare, and other public sector organizations process and store sensitive data including health records, tax data, personally identifiable information (PII), student data, criminal justice information, and financial data. These workloads carry stringent security and compliance requirements to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of this data both in transit and at rest. Best practices for protection of data in transit include enforcing appropriately defined encryption requirements, authenticating network communications, and implementing secure key and certificate management systems. In this post, I demonstrate a solution for deploying a highly available ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Ray Rogers. People around the world rely on continuing education and upskilling courses to build on their existing knowledge and learn new, industry-specific skills sets. In Singapore, Community Centres (CCs) and Resident Committees (RCs) offer a variety of upskilling courses for residents. CCs and RCs are part of the network of the People’s Association (PA), a Singaporean statutory board with a mission to build and bridge communities. To improve CCs’ and RCs’ time-intensive, manual process of course administration, PA and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), launched a cloud-based web portal ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Simon Overton. The UK government sector is standing on the verge of the unknown. The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic and political outcomes of Brexit remains to be seen, but change is a certainty. Government departments will need to respond quickly and decisively. But they will have a chance to innovate as this new phase in the nation’s history emerges. Digital transformation can help government become more agile and respond more quickly to emerging trends and future crises. The response to the pandemic has already shown how government departments can harness data and ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Howard M Wiener. In a recent NY Times feature article, Noam Scheiber provided a pretty thorough picture of the mid-to-longer term economic challenges we’re facing and some of the alternative policies that the Biden administration may pursue to address them.  The most important forces driving things boil down to a few: Manufacturing that has a high labor component is almost universally cheaper to do outside of the US, where the workforce is paid less (and where worker protections may not be as comprehensive.) Automation is increasingly being applied to wring manufacturing ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Mark Gibson; As an organization in the digital age, your success is largely going to be based on how well you are able to adapt to an ambiguous, disruptive, and dynamic digital environment. It will also mean taking advantage of the opportunities for organizational improvement presented by technical advances and digital trends. In other words, your success will depend on extraordinary IT (information technology) leadership. As organizations and industries continue to evolve by adapting to technological advancements and trends that stem from them, the importance of having competent and innovative IT leadership is becoming increasingly clear ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Mariann McDonagh. Enterprise architecture provides business and IT alignment by mapping applications, technologies and data to the value streams and business functions they support. It defines business capabilities and interdependencies as they relate to enterprise strategy, bridging the gap between ideation and implementation.An effective enterprise architecture framework provides a blueprint for business and operating models, identifies risks and opportunities, and enables the creation of technology roadmaps. Simply put, it enables IT and business transformation by helping technology and business innovation leaders focus on achieving successful, value-driven outcomes. As an enterprise moves and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Ben Butler. Cloud Innovation Centers (CICs) powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) aim to empower public sector organizations to quickly create and test new ideas using Amazon’s innovation methodology. In the second half of 2020, all those who participate in the CIC program, from students and researchers to the technology teams from AWS, worked on wide-ranging societal problems. Their focus was on improving education with virtual computer labs, working on climate change initiatives, improving economic and healthcare research, and supporting at-risk high school students. What were they up to at the end of 2020? Connecting ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Investing time, effort and money in technology certifications to improve understanding and competency across a range of technical skills certainly adds value from a personal development perspective but what does it actually mean in terms of job prospects and salary increases? Are all certifications equal or are some more valuable than others? The 2021 IDG Insider Pro and Computerworld IT Salary Survey of 1,172 IT professionals tried to understand current thinking on certifications and to garner some real-world experiences on how they are viewed by employers. With IT skills shortages rife – recruiter Hays claims that ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . The H-1B visa program is probably the most well-known US federal employment visas, and arguably the most controversial. Businesses say it’s too restrictive. Labor organizations complain that it displaces US workers and lowers their wages. Some politicians use it to appeal to their base with scant ability to fix the process to the benefit of all. But the truth lies somewhere in between these extremes.The following overview of the H-1B visa is accurate as of the publication date. Be aware that the rules and internal business processes of the H-1B visa are complex. Either could be ... Read More