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Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Kateryna Lytvynova. When you give customers advice that can help them save some money, they will pay you back with loyalty, which is priceless. Interesting fact: Fareboom users started spending twice as much time per session within a month of the release of an airfare price forecasting feature. This tool continues to grow conversion for our partner. Besides travel, price predictions find their application in various scenarios. Commodity traders, investors, construction developers, or energy generators use estimates on future price movements for business purposes. This time we talked with experts from AleaSoft, ENFOR, ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Mahesh Kumar CV. Global trends like fuel price fluctuations, geopolitical events and government regulations have a huge impact on the airline industry. In an industry at the mercy of unpredictable trends, it is all the more important for companies to gather, analyze and apply data intelligently to all business processes. Some key use cases where AI will provide tons of value in the aviation industry are as follows: 1. Optimizing MRO via Preventive Maintenance  Material repair and overhaul account for a large part of an airlines’ budget and operational capacity. Typically, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Vivek Raju. By Kautham Dhanasekaran, Solutions Architect at Tech MahindraBy Saurabh Shrivastava, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Vivek Raju, Manager, Global Integrator SA at AWSAs cloud becomes the new normal, many businesses want to use its potential to improve their customer experience. Amazon Web Services (AWS) helps businesses migrate to the cloud and provides best practices for the modernization of their applications. Organizations all around the world are using the breadth and depth of AWS services to become more cloud-native. Telia used the AWS platform to modernize their customer information management (CIM) platform ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Lily Kim. Today, I’m excited to share our ability to provide Azure public services that meet US Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High impact level and extend FedRAMP High Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) to all of our Azure public regions in the United States. In October, we told customers of our plan to expand public cloud services and regions from FedRAMP Moderate to FedRAMP High impact level. FedRAMP High was previously available only to customers using Azure Government. Additionally, we’ve increased the number of services available at High impact level to 90, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Today, on Red Nose Day, we are shining a light on the annual campaign to end child hunger. In the US alone, there are approximately 15.5 million impoverished children. Studies show that suffering from food insecurity can have lifelong effects on children, contributing to physical and mental health problems and lower academic performance.To address this issue, nonprofits are discovering that technology is a powerful resource to use on behalf of the populations they serve. Learn how one campaign – No Kid Hungry – is using data and technology to help end ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Listen closely… can you hear the rainforest?Rainforest Connection is a 501c3 that creates technology to empower protectors of the rainforest who wish to end illegal deforestation in real-time. But, when a tree falls in the forest, how many people are around to hear it? A quick look at the facts shows why this issue is relevant to anyone reading this post. It’s about the quality of the air we all breathe. When you cut down a tree in the rainforest, carbon stored for hundreds of years releases back into the atmosphere ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Dave Stokes; The world seems awash in unstructured, NoSQL data, mainly of the JSON variety.  While this has a great many benefits as far as data mutability and not being locked into a rigid structure there are some things missing that are common in the structured world of SQL databases.What if there was a way to take this unstructured NoSQL JSON data and cast it, temporarily, into a structured table?  Then you could use all the processing functions and features found in a relation database on you data.  There is a way and it is the ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: . One of the key challenges faced by multinational corporations and governments is ensuring the secure transmission of data across the internet. Despite the use of data encryption protocols, there are still security risks associated with sending sensitive data between parties. Malevolent operators may be able to crack mathematical security protocols or acts of sabotage or carelessness may expose cryptographic keys inadvertently, allowing other parties to eavesdrop or intercept a message without being detected. That’s where the use of quantum cryptography may yield benefits. Quantum cryptography uses the principles of quantum mechanics to send secure ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Daniela Blanco, Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NYU Tandon and founder of her own business, Sunthetics, won the title of Global Champion and $75,000 worth of AWS Promotional Credits at the 2019 Entrepeneurs’ Organization (EO) Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA).Fifty-two student entrepreneurs from across the globe competed at the 2019 EO GSEA. Participants were college or university students and entrepreneurs that are either the owner, founder, or primary shareholder of a business. Each participant competed locally with their peers with the hopes of representing their ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Sandra Pattison; If you’ve never experienced geoblocks, chances are you will while traveling from country to country. Some websites are restricted to a country, meaning you get an error message when you try to access them from outside their borders. You can get around that by changing your IP address, though. In this article, we’re going to show you how to get an Italian IP address. When you visit a website, it can detect your location through your IP address. If you’re not in the country that it is available in, you’ll sometimes see an error message ... Read More