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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

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; Chances are you currently have two or more apps you regularly use that you wish could work together to save you some time, like having a smart home thermostat switch itself on when it gets cold outside, or have an article posted to Twitter when you move a relevant card in Trello. The easiest way to set up an automation like this is by using a tool like IFTTT. Key Takeaways: IFTTT is a great, streamlined tool that can automate all kinds of processes, from social media (like Twitter and Facebook) to office applications (like ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Tom Wilson. Given the recent pandemic’s uncertainty and disturbances, it is not surprising that investors seek more information before making a decision. Although alternative data is not new, it has been the recent focus for many investing firms. A recent study concluded that the global alternative data market size would grow at a 44% CAGR from 2020 to 2026, reaching an impressive $11.1 billion. The following sections explore the importance of alternative data and its predicted trends this year.  What is alternative data? Alternative data datasets contain any type of information ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; As database footprints continue to explode, many companies are looking for ways to deal with such rapid growth.  One approach is to refactor traditional relational databases to fit into a NoSQL engine, where horizontal scalability is easier.  However, in many cases, this is in no way a trivial undertaking. Another approach that has been gaining interest is the use of MyRocks as an alternative storage engine to the traditional InnoDB.  While not for everyone, in certain use cases it could be a potential solution.  As with so many things open source, the next ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Hugo Bowne-Anderson. It seems harder than ever to agree with others on basic facts, let alone to develop shared values and goals: we even claim to live in a post-truth era1. With anti-vaxxers, QAnon, Bernie Bros, flat earthers, the intellectual dark web, and disagreement worldwide as to the seriousness of COVID-19 and the effectiveness of masks, have we lost our shared reality? For every piece of information X somewhere, you can likely find “not X” elsewhere. There is a growing disbelief and distrust in basic science and government. All too often, conversations on social media descend rapidly ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: OLIVIA CUTHBERT. The importance of web development trends in everyday life   Technology is rapidly evolving in today's world, and if you want to take full advantage of its potential, you need to keep up with the latest technological trends.   As we all know, the internet is present in almost every aspect of our lives, from ordering pizza to booking flights. The internet is behind it all, and creating an engaging digital experience is a real challenge.   To create an attractive website with a good strategy, you need to ... Read More