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Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Hans-Joachim Edert. This blog is part one of a series on model validation. Introduction The struggle for finding the best approach how to bring analytical models into production is definitely not a new one. This final step – “the last mile” as my colleague James called it in his blog – has proven to be the most challenging part of the journey and unfortunately is often even a stumbling stone. Maybe it is for this reason – and because analytical decisions have become more and more crucial to nowadays business processes – that applying the ideas ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We are super excited for our update this month! We are releasing two of our top community requests: incremental refresh for Power BI Pro and hierarchical slicer. Additionally, we’ve added some improvements to the new ribbon and a couple new DAX functions. Since our last release, there have been several new Power BI visuals released on AppSource, so be sure to try them out! If you want to learn about all the updates and enhancements this month, check out the full blog. Here’s the complete list of February updates: ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Shannon Kellogg. Just over a year ago, I welcomed Virginia Governor Ralph Northam to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) campus in Herndon, Virginia to announce the first veteran technical cohort of the Amazon Apprenticeship Initiative. This announcement is part of our expanded partnership with the Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) to enable more veterans to gain cloud-based skills. That partnership offers veterans to receive in-classroom study and training at NOVA, followed by paid apprentices with AWS over several months that enable participants to get hands-on experience. This apprenticeship program is part of a broader ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Rick Wicklin. A previous article shows how to interpret the collinearity diagnostics that are produced by PROC REG in SAS. The process involves scanning down numbers in a table in order to find extreme values. This can be a tedious and error-prone process. Friendly and Kwan (2009) compare this task to a popular picture book called Where's Waldo? in which children try to find one particular individual (Waldo) in a crowded scene that involves of hundreds of people. The game is fun for children, but less fun for a practicing analyst who is trying to discover ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: John Goldin. When I first looked at day by day data for resting heart rate I bumped intoproblems caused by the issue of time zones. I have about 800 rows of data of typeHKQuantityTypeIdentifierRestingHeartRate which should be one per day.I quickly discovered I had several days where there were two values in a single day,and these were related tooccasions when I traveled by air to a different time zone.This leads to a long digression on the subject of computer time stamps and time zones.(Here is an entertaining video that describesthe general problem of time stamps and time ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Lea Waniek. [This article was first published on r-bloggers | STATWORX, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Did you know, that you can transform plain old static ggplot graphs to animated ones? Well you can with the help of the package gganimate by RStudio’s Thomas Lin Pedersen and David Robinson and the results are amazing! My STATWORX colleagues and I are very impressed how effortless all kind of ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R on head spin - the Heads or Tails blog. Two weeks ago, I was fortunate to attend my very first Rstudio conference. Spoiler: it was an amazing event – packed to the brim with new ideas, tools, impressions, and most important of all: smart and kind people. This was the first time that San Francisco was hosting “rstudio::conf” (the affectionate shorthand is mirroring R’s package::tool syntax). Having moved to the Bay Area not long ago I really counted myself lucky to have such a promising event in my neighbourhood. I have written about the importance of ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Mayra Pena; Liquid Web’s Customer Advocate on what inspires her, finding herself in technology, and the power of making the world a bit better for someone else. “I want people to be happy,” says Becki Pahl. “I enjoy trying to do everything I can to turn someone’s experience around.”There’s a lot about Becki Pahl that makes her Becki Pahl. An avid crafter, she is the proud owner of a t-shirt that reads, In my defense, I was left unsupervised. “I bought the shirt in reference to my crafting, but it’s true for my work, too,” says ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Stefan Stoyanov. The Game Changer series By Stefan Dimitrov Stoyanov, Business Analytics Intern at Boemska As you may have noticed from my first and second articles about SAS Viya, I fell in love at first sight with the SAS in-memory cloud analytics platform. However, do you believe you can fall in love, at first sight, with someone? According to the 2017 Elite Singles poll the majority of people, 61% of women and 72% of men, say yes. Research conducted by the University of Groningen also supports these results. So, there is a chance ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: David Penick. “I love the ability to apply security on nodes and relationships in a very flexible way. I’ve already shown it to some of our customers, and they love it as well,” said Michal Bachman, CEO at GraphAware.As the founder of GraphAware, Michal Bachman has helped dozens of customers implement Neo4j. GraphAware started using Neo4j to do natural language processing on unstructured text in 2014, and Michal predicts that machine learning and AI play a major role in the future of graph technology. In this week’s five-minute interview (conducted at GraphTour NYC 2019), ... Read More