Tag: GitHub

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jerry Vasquez; DDoS. It’s become a four-letter word that strikes fear in the hearts of business owners across the internet industry, and with good cause. Threats for DDoS attacks across the industry have been rising in terms of frequency, volume, and ease of access every year and, according to a statistical analysis by Calyptix, 2018 was no different. In fact, in 2018 the internet saw the largest quantity of DDoS attacks in a calendar year as well as the most massive volumetric attacks ever.So what do you need to know about DDoS attacks and how can Liquid ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Taylor Cox. We are excited to share the release of the Microsoft Azure HDInsight Metastore Migration Tool (HMMT), an open-source script that can be used for applying bulk edits to the Hive metastore. The HDInsight Metastore Migration Tool is a low-latency, no-installation solution for challenges related to data migrations in Azure HDInsight. There are many reasons why a Hive data migration may need to take place. You may need to protect your data by enabling secure transfer on your Azure storage accounts. Perhaps you will be migrating your Hive tables from WASB to Azure Data ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: ajit jaokar. After a recent webinar, I was asked about advice for getting a job in AI for a fresh graduate This is a good question and not often answered Here are my thoughts Background Firstly, AI is a vast topic. Everyone has a limited view on AI based on their personal experience. And that includes me .. So, you should seek multiple viewpoints on this question. Also, everyone’s perspective comes with a personal bias. I am biased towards engineers. In my view, if you do not come from an Engineering ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Geir Hoydalsvik; The MySQL Development team is very happy to announce that MySQL 8.0.14 is now available for download at dev.mysql.com. In addition to bug fixes there are a few new features added in this release.  Please download 8.0.14 from dev.mysql.com or from the MySQL  Yum,  APT, or SUSE repositories. The source code is available at GitHub. You can find the full list of changes and bug fixes in the 8.0.14 Release Notes. Here are the highlights. Enjoy! SQL Lateral derived tables  (WL#8652)  This work by Guilhem Bichot adds support for SQL:99 feature T491 “lateral derived ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Security is a super important topic. This is not only true in the PostgreSQL world – it holds true for pretty much any modern IT system. Databases, however, have special security requirements. More often than not confidential data is stored and therefore it makes sense to ensure that data is protected properly. Security first !PostgreSQL: Listing all permissionsGaining an overview of all permissions granted to users in PostgreSQL can be quite difficult. However, if you want to secure your system, gaining an overview is really everything – it can be quite easy to forget a permission here ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Now in preview Azure Monitor logs in Grafana - now in public preview Grafana offers great dashboarding capabilities, rich visualizations, and integrations with over 40 data sources. Grafana integration is now available in preview for Microsoft Azure Monitor logs. This integration is achieved through the new Log Analytics plugin, now available as part of the Azure Monitor data source. If you’re already using Grafana for your dashboards, this new plugin can help you create a single pane of glass for your various monitoring needs. The new plugin enables you to display any data ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Sebastian Wolf. How to Build a Shiny “Truck” part 2 — Let the LEGO “truck” app pull a trailer. An example of a modularized shiny app.In September 2018 I used an automotive metaphor explaining a large scale R shiny app. RViews published the article. I would summarize the article in one phrase. Upon building large applications (trucks) in R shiny there are a lot of things to keep in mind. To cover all these things in a single app I’m providing this tutorial. You can find all files of the app under https://github.com/zappingseb/biowarptruck — folder: example_packaged Summary (skip if you read the ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Valeriy Kravchuk; Slides for my talk about MySQL bugs at FOSDEM 2019 MySQL, MariaDB and Friends Devroon are ready, support customers decided not to break anything badly on weekend, so I have some free time for blogging.  As usual, when I do not have any better idea or useful recent real life experience to share I write about MySQL bugs.Today I'd like to continue my review of interesting MySQL bug reports added by Community members in December, 2018. I'll review them starting from the oldest:Bug #93701 - "Assertion `maybe_null' failed |Item_func_concat::val_str(String*)". It's debug assertion, not a big ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Peter Prevos. The post Factor Analysis in R with Psych Package: Measuring Consumer Involvement appeared first on The Lucid Manager. The first step for anyone who wants to promote or sell something is to understand the psychology of potential customers. Getting into the minds of consumers is often problematic because measuring psychological traits is a complex task. Researchers have developed many parameters that describe our feelings, attitudes, personality and so on. One of these measures is consumer involvement, which is a measure of the attitude people have towards a product or service. The most common method to ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Andre Violante. Whether you’re applying for your first credit card or shopping for a second home – or anywhere in between – you’ll probably encounter an application process. As part of that process, banks and other lenders use a scorecard to determine your likelihood to pay off that loan. Naturally, this means credit scoring is an important data science topic for banks and any business that works with the banking industry. Since I have previous experience with customer analytics, but not specifically with financial risk, I’ve been learning how to develop a credit scorecard, and I ... Read More