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Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Each day, nonprofit organizations around the world are focused on achieving their missions. Whether they fight for the environment, work to achieve medical breakthroughs, preserve the arts, or focus on building social good, with Amazon Web Services nonprofits are able to run lean, freeing them to be fast, agile, and even global, while still being efficient with IT spend, paying only for what they use so they can focus resources on their important work.Tens of thousands of nonprofits and NGOs worldwide use Amazon Web Services to build highly available, scalable websites, ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Vincent Granville. Guest blog post by Ian White.  With the recent spate of fake news (why can’t we just call them lies?), I started thinking about the growing chasm between statistical/fact creators and media consumers. Historically we have put our trust in the Fourth Estate to analyze, filter and present to an audience. For better or worse, today anybody can call themselves a journalist– if you have page views and social media, you have the foundation for influencing many people who likely won’t question the veracity of what you report.  The notion that media consumers lack perspective and ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL. Author: MySQL Performance Blog. Manjot Singh  | March 6, 2017 |  Posted In: Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MariaDB, MySQL, MySQL 101, Security PREVIOUS POST In this blog post, we’ll look at how “operator error” can cause serious problems (like the one we saw last week with AWS), and how to avoid them in MySQL using --i-am-a-dummy. Recently, AWS had some serious downtime in their East region, which they explained as the consequence of a bad deployment. It seems like most of the Internet was affected in one way or another. Some on Twitter dubbed it “S3 Dependency ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. AWS launched the fourth City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge, a global program recognizing how local and regional governments are innovating on behalf of their citizens around the globe. New to the competition this year, we are opening the competition to school districts who are using the cloud to enrich learning, help teachers reach more students, and improve school or district operations. “Through the City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge, we’ve watched our customers take action on an idea, grow a program to better serve their citizens, and raise the bar ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. AWS has joined the Commonwealth of Virginia and Virginia Tech to support the Cyber Range initiative with scalable cloud infrastructure and to collaborate on cybersecurity educational efforts, enabling the Cyber Range with both content and a closed network for hands-on exercises, competitions, and other simulations. “We are thrilled to be a part of this important initiative in Virginia, which is one we hope will spark similar programs across the country,” said Teresa Carlson, Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector for AWS. “It’s critical that we have a skilled cybersecurity workforce to ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: 9Clouds. How does someone go from being an aspiring sports writer to having the job title “Data Acquisition Engineer”? Although it seems unconventional, this path has paid dividends for one of our experts on Deep Web technologies, Corey Hermanson.Born and raised in the Minnesota, Corey has always called the upper midwest his home. After graduating high school, Corey attended Augustana (College) University majoring in journalism and finance. After interning for his local paper in Brainerd, Corey quickly realized that the sports writing work schedule of 3:00 pm – midnight wasn’t exactly ideal for him. However, a major aspect ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Meg Blanchette. An Interview with Travis Oliphant  |  February 21st, 2017 In late 2016 I spoke with with Travis Oliphant, co-founder of Continuum Analytics. We covered many topics, including building a community and balancing enterprise with open source. I’ve broken our conversation up into a series of posts, which will be published over the next several weeks. In this first part of our interview, we discuss breaking down silos, the importance of effectively communicating about cutting-edge technology, and where Anaconda is going next. What are you most excited about right now? I’m looking for a ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Ronald van Loon. The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing our world. This may seem like a bold statement, but consider the impact this revolutionary technology has already had on communications, education, manufacturing, science, business, and many other fields of life. Clearly, the IoT is moving really fast from concept to reality and transforming how industries operate and create value.  As the IoT creeps towards mass adoption, IT giants experiment and innovate with the technology to explore new opportunities and create new revenue streams. I was invited to Genius of Things Summit as ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Instructor Jeff Christen from Cornell University had his own assignment – develop a Masters-level course through Cornell’s Information Science Department on “Business Intelligence (BI) Systems,” in only three weeks.The goal of the class was to give students a solid foundation and understanding of BI concepts including dimensional data modeling, ETL design, and data visualizations. With a short turnaround time, Jeff worked with Marty Sullivan, Cloud Engineer at Cornell, to come up with a plan to determine how to have a hands-on learning experience for this pilot course. Preparation “We did not ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Future Cities Catapult (FCC) has simplified the “smart city” concept into five imperatives to help get you started on your digital journey to citizen innovation.  Following the AWS UK Region Launch, we have collaborated with Future Cities Catapult to bring you the Future Citizen Innovation Series.In January in London, we hosted the first week of sessions featuring Transport for London (TfL), The Met Office, Zaizi, KainosEvolve, DVLA and Future Cities Catapult talking about the Future of Citizen Innovation, Open Data, NHS, and how our customers are using the AWS Cloud to ... Read More