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Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Bill Schmarzo. Gartner recently published a report titled “CIO Agenda 2019: Exploit Transformational Technologies” that states the following: “Whether it’s AI, quantum computing or conversational platforms, digital business is underpinned by technology. But with a seemingly endless amount of technologies to invest in, where are CIOs focused?” Figure 1:  Gartner: AI Tops the List of Game-Changing Technologies But here’s my problem with this list: the important question is not where CIOs are focused.  The real important question is where are CEOs focused? Here’s the problem with the Digital Business or more importantly, the ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Kamal Kumar. Categories Basic Statistics Tags Data Visualisation Linear Regression R Programming Hope you liked the Part 1 ,Part 2 and Part 3 of this Series. In this Part 4, we will go through the tools used during the Improve phase of Six Sigma DMAIC cycle. The most representative tool used during the Improve Phase is DOE-Design of experiments. Proper use of DOE can lead to process improvement, but a bad design of experiment can lead to undesired results – inefficiency, higher costs. What is experiment An experiment is a test or series of tests in which ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Valeriy Kravchuk; From the lack of comments to my previous post it seems everything is clear with ERROR 1213 in different kinds and forks of MySQL. I may still write a post of two about MyRocks or TokuDB deadlocks one day, but let's get back to my main topic of MySQL bugs. Today I continue my series of posts about community bug reports I am subscribed to with a review of bugs reported in November, 2018, starting from the oldest and skipping those MySQL 8 regression ones I've already commented on. I also skip documentation bugs ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. The second edition of my book ‘Deep Learning from first principles:Second Edition- In vectorized Python, R and Octave’, is now available on Amazon, in both paperback ($14.99)  and kindle ($9.99/Rs449/-)  versions. Since this book is almost 70% code, all functions, and code snippets have been formatted to use the fixed-width font ‘Lucida Console’. In addition line numbers have been added to all code snippets. This makes the code more organized and much more readable. I have also fixed typos in the book The book includes the following chapters Table of Contents Preface 4 Introduction 6 ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Chris Lema; Imagine this scenario: You’re shopping for wireless headphones on an eCommerce website. You have some general questions. So, you head over to the site’s FAQ where you find out that algorithms called audio codecs help determine sound quality in headphones.There’s a link in the FAQ to one of the site’s blog articles where you can “learn more.” You read the article. Now, you’re feeling informed and confident. Below the article is an ad for a pair of wireless headphones that supports the codecs you just described. You click and buy.The scenario represents a common ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Leo Sadovy. By now you’ve seen the headlines and the hype proclaiming data as the new oil. The well-meaning intent of these proclamations is to cast data in the role of primary economic driver for the 21st century, just as oil was for the 20th century. As analogies go, it’s not too bad, but it doesn't really hit the mark. If we were to stick with the oil/data analogy, data would not be a replacement for oil, but a co-equal partner. Allow me to offer an alternative analogy: Life. In an attempt to assess whether or ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Jakob Gepp. We at STATWORX work a lot with R and we often use the same little helper functions within our projects. These functions ease our daily work life by reducing repetitive code parts or by creating overviews of our projects. At first, there was no plan to make a package, but soon I realised, that it will be much easier to share and improve those functions, if they are within a package. Up till the 24th December I will present one function each day from helfRlein. So, on the 13th day of Christmas my true love ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: kjytay. I’m a casual NBA fan: I don’t have time to watch the games but enjoy viewing the highlights on Instagram/Youtube (especially Shaqtin’ A Fool!); I sometimes read game articles and analyses (e.g. Blogtable). Apart from the game being an amazing visual spectacle, it’s fun to drink in the deluge of stats that each game brings. I’m not even talking about advanced stats and “ABPRmetrics“: there’s something exciting about seeing how many different statistical records can be broken on a given night. As a data/stats person, I’ve been wanting to get my hands on NBA data and ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Jack Talboys. Unsurprisingly we see that the search term ‘Trump’ was most popular around November 2016, the same time as the US Presidential Election of that year where someone with the last name ‘Trump’ performed rather well. Maybe more surprising is how the searches for ‘Trump’ have been relatively low since the election, despite it feeling as if Donald has been a constant fixture in the news. It is possible to download this information as a CSV file, which could then be read into R and we could have some fun with it. Luckily for us, there ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Brendan Burns. Welcome to KubeCon North America 2018, and welcome to Seattle. It’s amazing to get the chance to welcome you to my hometown, and the site of Kubernetes birth. It was barely five years ago that Joe, Craig, and I had the first small ideas and demos that eventually turned into the amazing project and community. I’m honored that all of you over the years have chosen to invest your time, energy, and enthusiasm in Kubernetes, whether this is your first KubeCon or you’ve been here since the first one in San Francisco four ... Read More