Tag: Excel

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. re:Invent 2018 is around the corner! This year, data and analytics tracks are bigger than ever.This blog post highlights the data and analytics sessions at re:Invent 2018. If you’re attending this year, you want to check out the sessions, workshops, chalk talks, and builder sessions that we have at the conference. As in previous years, you can find these events in various topic categories, such as Analytics, Deep Learning, AI Summit, Serverless, Architecture, and Databases. We have great sessions from Intuit, Nike, Intel, WuXi NextCODE, Warner Brothers, AutoDesk, NFL, SendGrid, McDonald, AirBnB, Hilton, Guardian Life, ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Chris Hemedinger. In her role as Product Manager for SAS Platform Technologies (including the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office), my colleague Amy Peters hears this question often. With many organizations adopting Microsoft Office 365 -- the "cloud" version of Office -- what does this mean for other processes that integrate with Microsoft Office applications? Microsoft has used different names for these similar offerings: Office 2016, Office 365, Microsoft 365, Office Online. The bottom line is that most users of a "365" package in the cloud, also have access to the Microsoft Office tools on their Windows ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Ercenk Keresteci. This blog continues our coverage of the solution guide published by Microsoft’s Industry Experiences team. The guide covers the following components: Ingesting data Hot path processing Cold path processing Analytics clients We already covered the recommendation for processing data for an IoT application in the solution guide and suggested using Lambda architecture for data flow. To reiterate the data paths: A batch layer (cold path) stores all incoming data in its raw form and performs batch processing on the data. The result of this processing is stored as a batch view. It is ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Connect with experts, collaborate with your community and maximize learning opportunities at Microsoft Business Applications Summit, returning June 10-11, 2019 in Atlanta, GA. Back for its second year, this is the premier place for power users, analysts and technical architects to get hands-on with the tools you use every day – and get a sneak peek at what’s new and next. Registration is open – don't miss it! Why attend? Explore all things Dynamics 365, Power BI, Excel, Mixed Reality, PowerApps and Microsoft Flow under one roof – learn ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Peter Prevos. The post 5½ Reasons to Ditch Spreadsheets for Data Science: Code is Poetry appeared first on The Lucid Manager. When I studied civil engineering some decades ago, we solved all our computing problems by writing code. Writing in BASIC or PASCAL, I could quickly perform fundamental engineering analysis, such as reinforced concrete beams, with my home-brew software library. Soon after I started my career, spreadsheets became widely available, and I fully embraced this fantastic business tool, first Lotus 123 and later grudgingly moved to MS Excel. Screendump of Atari BASIC program (in Dutch) to estimate ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Sebastian Wolf. A few month ago I joined the R/Pharma conference in Cambridge, MA. As a take away I thought of my project and how I can improve, with solutions others provided. Mainly solutions in R are R-packages. So I’m a R-Shiny programmer in a regulated environment, so the list of the solutions I took are mainly helping you, if you are providing a) Shiny Apps b) Statistical packages c) verified solutions. Let’s go and see which R-packages I did not know and now find really useful: Packrat What most of my co-workers are producing, are reports. Actually ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Justin Runyon. Big data is all the rage, but simply collecting it won't help much. These data visualization tools help you make sense of it all. The rise of big data has ushered in the era of data-driven decision-making. Vast volumes of data constantly flowing in from multiple sources contain valuable insights that can lead to better business decisions and competitive advantage. The challenge for businesses is to spend less time setting up, collecting, and organizing data, and more time making decisions based on the insights that the data holds. That’s ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Nick Barber. In the second part of our series, we take a look at workflow and delivery and where digital asset management and web content management systems excel. If you haven’t seen the first part of our analysis, make sure you check it out. Do you need more help? Forrester clients can set up an inquiry with us ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Nikolay Savin. When was predictive pricing born? Reportedly, at Japanese rice exchanges in the 17th century, which used rice stock analysis to describe the behavior of the stock market and make predictions about future trends and prices. Today, four hundred years later, retailers leverage the power of algorithms to help them set optimal prices and earn more. What major changes have machines brought to retail? From the 19th century until today There was something in-between the methods the Japanese used to predict prices and modern machine-based solutions which make pricing recommendations. It was the ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Filipe Rigueiro. What is homology? Proteins are conserved bio molecules present in all organisms. Some proteins are conserved in many similar species, making them homologues of each other, meaning that the sequence is not the same but there is a degree of similarity. This is measured as homology in percentage. Histone H1 homology in mammals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_homology)What is R R is a high level programming language with a focus on statistical analysis and machine learning. R Project R is widely used in bioinformatics and has a huge resources library of packages, most of them developed by the top Universities to ... Read More