Tag: Excel

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: business-science.io - Articles. Data Science and Machine Learning in business begins with R. Why? R is the premier language that enables rapid exploration, modeling, and communication in a way that no other programming language can match: SPEED! This is why you need to learn R. Time is money, and, in a world where you are measured on productivity and skill, R is your best friend. In this Data Science With R Series, we’ll cover what life is like in our ground-breaking, enterprise-grade course called Data Science For Business With R (DS4B 201-R). The objective is to experience ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Ravi Shanker. Azure Test Plans, a service launched with Azure DevOps earlier this month, provides a browser-based test management solution for exploratory, planned manual, and user acceptance testing. Azure Test Plans also provides a browser extension for exploratory testing and gathering feedback from stakeholders. Manual and exploratory testing continue to be important techniques for evaluating quality of a product/service, alongside the DevOps emphasis on automated testing. In modern software development processes, everybody in the team contributes to or owns quality - including developers, testers, managers, product owners, user experience advocates, and more. Azure Test Plans ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Sergey. Customers lifetime value (LTV or CLV) is one of the cornerstones of product analytics because we need to make a lot of decisions for which the LTV is a necessary or at least very significant factor. In this article, we will focus on products/services/applications with recurring subscription paymentsCustomers lifetime value (LTV or CLV) is one of the cornerstones of product analytics because we need to make a lot of decisions for which the LTV is a necessary or at least very significant factor. In this article, we will focus on products/services/applications with recurring subscription payments. Predicting ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: business-science.io - Articles. Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to change industries across the board, yet few organizations are able to capture its value and realize a real return-on-investment. The reality is that the transition to AI and data driven analysis is difficult and not well understood. The issue is twofold, first, the necessary technology to complete such a task has only recently become mainstream, and second, most data scientists are inexperienced in their respective industries. However, with all the uncertainty surrounding this topic, one hedge fund has managed to navigate through these challenges and accomplish what ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Econometrics and Free Software. In a previous blog post I have showedhow you could use the {tidyxl} package to go from a human readable Excel Workbook to a tidydata set (or flat file, as they are also called). Some people then contributed their solutions,which is always something I really enjoy when it happens. This way, I also get to learn things! @expersso proposed a solution without {tidyxl}: Interesting data wrangling exercise in #rstats. My solution (without using {tidyxl}): https://t.co/VjuOoM82yX https://t.co/VsXFyowigu — Eric (@expersso) September 12, 2018 Ben Stenhaug also proposed a solution on his githubwhich is simpler ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . The months of July and August were full of excitement and victories for the Power BI team. Each week, we rolled out new features and continued to make improvements on existing ones based on your feedback. Worried that you missed out? Fear not! Here’s a recap of all the features and announcements that were made: In July, we announced a public preview of Multi-Geo for Power BI Premium – our next step in helping multinational organizations address their data residency requirements. We understand each organization must be wary of ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . User groups are one of the best and easiest ways to get started with a new technology such as the Microsoft Power Platform.   If you aren’t familiar with the Microsoft Power Platform it enables a powerful, point-and-click approach to app building.  Making it easy for anyone familiar with Microsoft Office to customize and extend Dynamics 365 and Office 365 and build a new category of apps leveraging Power BI, PowerApps and Microsoft Flow.   Power BI, PowerApps, and Microsoft Flow have changed the game for business users, analysts, developers, and IT administrators ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Rafael Knuth. At the time of writing this post, I am nine months into my learning sabbatical. You can read about my journey here: “Career Transition Towards Data Analytics & Science”. Today I will share with you how you can plan your own, unique learning sabbatical, regardless of its scope and duration – anywhere between 1 and 12 months. Let’s get started. Begin with the end in mind If you have ever read Stephen Covey’s “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” you are familiar with the concept of picturing the end ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sudheer Sirivara. Content creators and broadcasters are increasingly embracing Cloud’s global reach, hybrid model and elastic scale. These attributes combined with AI’s ability to accelerate insights and time to market across content creation, management, and monetization are truly transformative. At the International Broadcasters Conference (IBC) Show 2018, we are focused on bringing Cloud + AI together to help you overcome common media workflow challenges. Video Indexer, generally available starting today, is a great example of this Cloud + AI focus. It brings together the power of the cloud + Microsoft AI to intelligently analyze your ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tad Brockway. Media and entertainment industry conferences are by far some of my favorites. Creativity, disruption, opportunity, and technology – particularly cloud, edge, and AI – are everywhere. It’s been exciting to see those things come together at NAB 2018, SIGGRAPH, and now IBC Show 2018. Together with teams from across Microsoft, I’m looking forward to IBC Show and the chance to learn, collaborate, and advance the state of this dynamic industry. At this year’s IBC we’re excited to announce the general availability of Video Indexer, our advanced metadata extraction service. Announced as public preview ... Read More