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Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Vincent Granville. In one of my previous articles, you can learn the process about how discoveries are made by research scientists, from stating the problem, exploratory analysis, testing, simulations, data science guesswork, all the way to the discovery of a new theory and state-of-the-art statistical modeling,including new, fundamental mathematical/statistical equations. This is a unique occasion to discover the creative path followed by inventors. Traditional research papers do not explain how a new paradigm was found, instead they focus on showing that the author's methodology is sound, original, and leads to useful ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Ronald van Loon. The technology revolution promises to deliver a lot of rewards for organizations that take it by the horns and implement it. The spread of the Internet across every facet of society has meant that the traditional approach to watching videos has changed. Research shows that the average American is still fond of watching videos on the traditional television. The interest in watching TV results in around five hours per day and a whooping 149 hours per month. But are these stats a true representation of what is happening in American society? The ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. How are startup organizations able to innovate so quickly? Without the large monetary commitment to a physical infrastructure, they can lean on the cloud to provide an environment that allows them to fail—securely and without a large upfront investment.Government agencies are depending on the cloud to do exactly the same – set up an inexpensive environment to scale up and down as testing requires, and deliver the tools they need to improve the lives of their citizens. Why is failing important? Innovation is not easy. It doesn’t usually come on the ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Vijayne Govender. The challenges for banking in emerging markets are similar to those elsewhere, but with fewer resources and structures available to address them. Key issues include expanding the market, and improving financial inclusion, to provide better access to banking services. To my mind, one of the most interesting aspects of the market now is the rise of fintech, and especially how it is helping those previously unable to access banking or loans. Fintechs are a good example of providers expanding the market: They are not replacing existing banks and services, but providing new services to ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. There are thousands of Big Data tools out there for data analysis today. Data analysis is the process of inspecting, cleaning, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information, suggesting conclusions, and supporting decision making. To save your time, in this post, I will list 30 top big data tools for data analysis in the areas of open source data tools, data visualization tools, sentiment tools, data extraction tools and databases. Open Source Data Tools 1. Knime KNIME Analytics Platform is the leading open ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Ilya Kashnitsky. R is an incredible tool for reproducible research. In the present series of blog posts I want to show how one can easily acquire data within an R session, documenting every step in a fully reproducible way. There are numerous data acquisition options for R users. Of course, I do not attempt to show all the data possibilities and tend to focus mostly on demographic data. If your prime interest lies outside human population statistics, it’s worth checking the amazing Open Data Task View. The series consists of four posts: Loading prepared datasets Accessing popular ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tom Keane. Microsoft is partnering with the U.S. Government in the journey to the cloud, providing both infrastructure (IaaS) and platform (PaaS) offerings to enable digital transformation. Our government customers are responsible for the most sensitive data and the most critical applications in the country. We are committed to delivering the broadest array of services to meet government regulatory requirements and security needs. Azure Government is the mission-critical cloud, providing more than 7,000 Federal, State, and local customers the exclusivity, highest compliance and security, hybrid flexibility, and commercial-grade innovation they need to better meet citizen ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Amelia Matteson. This article was written by Carlos Mendoza. Advancements in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) opens new doors for businesses to make data-informed decisions, and if your business does not take advantage of the growing industry of data analytics, your competitors will steamroll ahead. The advancement of machine learning and artificial intelligence is opening new doors for businesses to make more data-driven decisions at higher accuracy rates. Data and analytics are also changing the way that businesses compete. As leading companies take advantage of the power of big data, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. School districts and State Departments of Education are managing an increasing number of technology products and services that impact students and faculty. As state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) integrate more of these tools into their operations, the amount of student data being generated grows.Because these systems remain largely disconnected from one another, SEAs and LEAs are unable to secure, store, analyze, and report on the data in a unified way. The Ed-Fi Alliance seeks to change that by providing a data standard that allows previously disconnected educational ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - AnalyticBridge. Author: Vincent Granville. Significantly updated on October 11, see section 3. This is another off-the-beaten-path problem, one that you won't find in textbooks. You can solve it using data science methods (my approach) but the mathematician with some spare time could find an elegant solution. Share it with your colleagues to see how math-savvy they are, or with your students. I was able to make substantial progress in 1-2 hours of work using Excel alone, thought I haven't found a final solution yet (maybe you will.) My Excel spreadsheet with all computations is accessible ... Read More