Tag: fun

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Daniel Oehm. If you’re like me, when running a process through a loop you’ll add in counters and progress indicators. That way you’ll know if it will take 5 minutes or much longer. It’s also good for debugging to know when the code wigged-out. This is typically what’s done. You take a time stamp at the start – start , print out some indicators at each iteration – cat(“iteration”, k, “// reading file”, file, “n”) and print out how long it took at the end – print(Sys.time()-start). The problem is it will print out a new line ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Allison (Bonner) Bogart. You know those movies where the two friends learn only years later that the perfect relationship they were looking for was right in front of them the whole time? It’s been kind of the same for me during my time here at SAS... well, minus the romance. When I joined SAS as part of the Sales Academy program, I was learning as much as I could about the company, the technology and the industry. It was a new and exciting whirlwind of information overload that was exactly the challenge I needed. What I ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Mango Solutions. There are so many wonderful EARL talks happening this year – it’s hard to highlight them all! But we thought we’d share some that the Mango team are really looking forward to: Ana Henriques, PartnerRe Using R in Production at PartnerRe Ana Henriques is the Analytics Tool Lead in PartnerRe’s Life & Health Department. Ana is now focused on business-side delivery of platforms and tools to support data science and related functions. Her talk will focus on the open source infrastructure supporting this process: version control, continuous integration, containerisation and container deployment and orchestration. Kevin Kuo, ... Read More

Feed: CronJ. Author: Pavan Kalyan; Here, I’m going to explain to you how to quickly build out a beautiful interface for your applications with Flutter’s widget composition. If you haven’t tried Flutter yet, it’s Google’s new mobile UI SDK that can help you quickly build native iOS and Android apps from a single codebase. Widgets are the building block of any app built with Flutter, and their functionality spans from providing a framework for your entire app, like the scaffold widget, to accepting input, like text field does, or even animating an ink splash. Every widget has its own particular ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: lortie. messy data can be your friend (or frenemy)Many if not most data clean up, tidying, wrangling, and joining can be done directly in R. There are many advantages to this approach – i.e. read in data in whatever format (from excel to json to zip) and then do your tidying – including transparency, a record of what you did, reproducibility (if you ever have to do it again for another experiment or someone else does), and reproducibility again if your data get updated and you must rinse and repeat! Additionally, an all-R workflow forces you to ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Keely O'Neill. Every single thing that happens at TC is curated down to the tiniest detail and meant to inspire you—including the fun stuff. If you've never attended TC, get ready: there is a lot of fun stuff. At TC19, look out for photo and gif booths, games, morning workouts, and more. We’re also known for our surprise moments from parades to flash mobs to line dancing and food trucks. You have to be there in Vegas this November to see what we have planned for you. Who doesn’t love a good data pun? We’re obsessed, ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MyDBOPS; Partnering to participate knowledge sharing for the community of Database Administrators. In continuation to the community contribution with knowledge gained out of experience and networking, Mydbops IT Solutions, conducted its 4th Database Meetup on Saturday, 3rd of August, 2019. Here was the first time, that we had changed our venue. With the like-minded sponsor in M/s.Zenefits Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. They played a role of a perfect host for all of us as attendees. Their venue was a perfectly equipped to suit the knowledge sharing exercise. Key note by Mr.Ramesh Aithal, Head of Engineering at ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. San Diego Law Enforcement agencies have been seeking new ways to approach some of their biggest challenges with technology. By building in the cloud, they hope to improve their ability to respond to incidents, log and analyze information, speed up investigations, and save lives.Slalom, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) premier consulting partner, hosted a two-day hackathon that brought in technologists to build creative technical solutions to address the challenges faced by this community. Using AWS, the attendees accessed reference architectures and tools to create more effective processes for managing and securing ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: r-bloggers on Machine Learning in R. First of all You may ask yourself how is this name ‘mlrPlayground’ even justified?What a person dares to put two such opposite terms in a single word and expects people to take him seriously? I assume most of you know ‘mlr’, for those who don’t: It is a framework offering a huge variety of tools for simplifying machine learning tasks in R.Quite the opposite from a place, where you can play with your best friends, make new friends, live out your fantasies and just have a great time the whole day ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Jen Sabourin. We’ve been hosting SummerSTEM teachers for 5 years now and it just keeps getting better and better. This year, our focus was on data, which is central to SAS’s mission and also an important component of project-based learning (PBL). If you’re not familiar, the SummerSTEM program is led by Wake Ed Partnership and its focus is on providing teachers from Wake County Public Schools with professional development on using PBL to enrich student learning in the coming year. Furthermore, teachers get hands-on experience at area businesses to bring authenticity and industry needs to the ... Read More