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Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksander Hougen; If you’ve followed the news in the last two decades, you’ve probably heard stories and seen headlines about the deep web or dark web. However, you might have found yourself asking, What is the deep web? as news outlets rarely concern themselves with explaining exactly what it is besides being a place where you can anonymously acquire illegal goods. The deep web fulfills a range of needs, from allowing people to host and access digital content away from the prying eyes of authoritarian governments, to facilitating a range of illegal activities. With how mythologized the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Elliot Stewart. The COVID-19 pandemic is driving a parallel “infodemic”: the rapid spread of competing and often harmful narratives about the virus. Social media plays a central role in this infodemic, serving as a forum for the spread and evolution of theories and beliefs with origins in broadcast, print, online news, blogs, and other digital arenas. The ability of decision-makers to understand the role of social media in spreading ideas and beliefs is limited by the scale of activity on these platforms, where users produce millions of posts per day. To help navigate this ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Cognito is now available in the Europe (Stockholm) and Europe (Paris) Regions. Amazon Cognito is the easiest way to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. Amazon Cognito scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers, such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect.  ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Jon Gitlin; The continual advances in AI and in machine learning offer ample opportunities for improving the experiences of your customers and employees. One area that exemplifies this are service desk chatbots. Using this type of chatbot, your employees and customers can get their questions answered quickly, resolve their issues easily, and, as a result, improve their relationships with your organization steadily.  To help you get the most out of your service desk chatbot, we’ll break down what it is, some of its applications, and the top benefits you can expect from using it ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Mike Frank; The Challenge Often with sensitive information, you need to have an audit log. Frequently data such as this will contain a classification level as part of the row, defining policies for how it is handled, audited, etc. In a prior blog I discussed how to audit the selection of classified data. This blog covers how to audit data changes made to classified data.  As I stated in the prior blog – Sensitive Data might be labeled as –  Highly Sensitive  Top Secret  Classified  Restricted  Clearance Required  Highly Confidential  Protected Data that is categorized or ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. A 2015 Fortune Magazine article titled “Trust is the most powerful currency in business” shows a picture of two hands-shaking. Roll the calendar forward five years when artificial intelligence and advanced analytics are increasingly pervasive, the entities involved in forming “trust” have evolved to include machines. As the data available to the insurance industry continues to balloon, lack of trust in data and algorithms is a major hindrance to further innovation and transformation. This article discusses shifts underpinning the insurance business that AI will drive and the corresponding trust challenges. The desire to expand AI is largely financial ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Indhu. With the digital world growing competitive by the day, everyone is trying to understand their customers better and make finance, product development, and marketing decisions based on real data for a better return on investment (ROI). If you don’t make use of data, there is a chance you will lag behind or, at least, use more money and energy to keep up with your data-driven competitors. That said, data needs to be accurate and of high quality to be useful. Bad data is inaccurate, unreliable, unsecured, static, uncontrolled, noncompliant, and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. Most cattle are not raised in cities—they live on cattle stations, large open plains, and tracts of land largely unpopulated by humans. It’s hard to keep connected with the herd. Cattle don’t often carry their own mobile phones, and they don’t pay a mobile phone bill. Naturally, the areas in which cattle live, often do not have cellular connectivity or reception. But they now have one way to stay connected: a world-first satellite ear tag.Ceres Tag co-founders Melita Smith and David Smith recognized the problem given their own farming background. David explained that they needed to ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Andy Cotgreave. Phew! It’s November. Welcome back to Best of the Tableau Web, where I share some of the best community content I’ve seen in recent times. And since we’re right on the heels of our first ever virtual Tableau Conference(ish), there’s a lot to highlight!  For this segment, three themes come to mind.  First: Iron Viz is the ultimate data competition and it was a privilege to host this event with Keshia Rose again. Going virtual this year presented challenges, but also many new opportunities. As I write, we’re in the midst of releasing special episodes of our weekly livestream ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Andrea Manero-Bastin. This article was written by Synced.   Baidu this Thursday announced the release of ApolloScape, billed as the world’s largest open-source dataset for autonomous driving technology. ApolloScape was released under Baidu’s autonomous driving platform Apollo, which Baidu hopes will become “the Android of the auto industry.” Apollo gives developers access to a complete set of service solutions and open-source codes and can enable for example a software engineer to convert a Lincoln MKZ into a self-driving vehicle in about 48 hours. ApolloScape’s open sourced data now provides developers a base ... Read More