Tag: Facebook

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksander Hougen; Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 15 years or so, chances are you’re well aware of Facebook and its iconic social media brand. However, as of October 2021, the parent company has changed its name from Facebook to Meta. In this article we’ll explore the reasons for this Facebook rebrand, as well as what it means for the platform and its users. Key Takeaways: Facebook (the parent company) has changed its name to Meta, in reference tothe metaverse, which combines social media with virtual and augmented reality — this will be ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. Too big to fail used to apply exclusively to banks and financial services institutions, but now regulators around the world are concerned about a different type of organisation creating systemic risks to the global financial system. As more and more banks move critical processes to the cloud, reliance upon a very small number of dominant cloud service providers are creating risks to operational resilience. Regulators are likely to act fast to ensure that these risks are mitigated and that banks can manage stressed exits from cloud providers should the need arise. To prepare for inevitable tests of ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksander Hougen; There are plenty of reasons to delete your Facebook account. Privacy concerns are the most likely reason, but perhaps you’ve realized that only a small percentage of your 500 friends are people you know. Either way, the platform doesn’t make it easy, so we’re going to show you how to delete Facebook from your life forever. If that seems too drastic for you, we also have a guide to changing your Facebook privacy settings. Key Takeaways: Facebook lets you deactivate or permanently delete your account. If you deactivate, you can still use Messenger, log in ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Niklas Kolster. Example of Marketing mix modeling with Facebook’s Robyn package Here I will go through an example of how to run marketing mix modeling with the Robyn package published by Facebook. The project page by Facebook is here: https://facebookexperimental.github.io/Robyn/ and here are the instructions and code: https://github.com/facebookexperimental/Robyn Ever since Facebook published the package many have asked us how they can run it in addition to the attribution modelling and automated marketing mix modeling we provide. We improved Facebook’s code a little bit so that its easier to get all the data together and run it. The ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Vincent Granville. Source: see last section in this article The October 4, 2021 great Facebook outage, which lasted for over 6 hours, making all FB properties (including Instagram, Snapshot, and even internal tools employees at FB use to communicate between themselves or even to enter the building) were down. Twitter's co-founder seemed so happy, and another big winner was DownDetector.com, which for several hours acted as a substitute to FB, with dozens of thousands users expressing their opinions about this outage, sometimes based on conspiracy theories. It is not the first ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Mihir Contractor. Introduction Automated messages like “Hi, how may I help you?” are quite familiar when a customer requires some service online. Want to know what’s that? These are the chatbots for businesses that have improved customer service by making service available round the clock, and 64%  of online users are satisfied with the automated system. As a fact, chatbots will most likely take care of 85% of all customer dealings by early 2022. Almost 50% of businesses prefer chatbots to mobile apps, proving it a viable future of customer service. Let’s see what they ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: James Wilson. In an endeavor to ensure lesser loading times for news and media web pages across the mobile web, Facebook and Google came up with Instant Articles and Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP). For Facebook, the initiative was focused on keeping users from leaving the social-media channel rather than referring traffic to online publishers. For Google, the project focused on building lightweight web pages by using an open-source AMP HTML code framework. In both cases, the focus was on radically improving the mobile user experience. How did ‘Facebook’s Instant Articles’ Improve ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Facebook Code Engineering; MySQL, an open source database developed by Oracle, powers some of Facebook’s most important workloads. We actively develop new features in MySQL to support our evolving requirements. These features change many different areas of MySQL, including client connectors, storage engine, optimizer, and replication. Each new major version of MySQL requires significant time and effort to migrate our workloads. The challenges  include: Porting our custom features to the new version Ensuring replication is compatible between the major versions Minimizing changes needed for existing application queries Fixing performance regressions that prevent the server from supporting ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: David Schmidt; Facebook has problems protecting your information. In a year full of concerning reports on how the social media platform polices — or fails to — users’ data, not only is it operating in an unflattering spotlight, but it’s also forcing some users to consider their security. To help those people, we’ve put together this guide to Facebook privacy settings. When Facebook users answered questions about their personalities in a seemingly harmless survey in 2014, they never imagined a political firm involved in the 2016 U.S. presidential election was behind it. Even though only 270,000 survey ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: kulbhushan. According to a recent study from market research firm Global Market Insights, The need for data center infrastructure market management among organizations to offer higher energy-efficiencies will be positively driven by the influx of cloud computing, Big Data, and AI solutions. The surge in internet infrastructure activities has led to the generation of large quantities of data by individuals and connected devices.The rising levels of data traffic have placed an immense power burden on data centers on account of the significant jump in the usage of IoT devices. This has ... Read More