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Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; As you may know, there’s a sizeable community of Puppet users and customers in Japan. There’s the Japan Puppet user group (PUG) that meets regularly, and its founder, Ryo Sugahara, was one of this year’s finalists for the Most Valued Puppeteer award and translated our first-ever Japanese documentation. Also, Tokyo-based NTT Data use the Japanese version of Puppet Enterprise to manage their Unified Development Cloud environment.Today we’re pleased to announce several things to help Puppet users and customers — as well as organizations looking to adopt DevOps practices and drive digital transformations — ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Keith Goldfeld. [This article was first published on ouR data generation, 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. The ROC (receiver operating characteristic) curve visually depicts the ability of a measure or classification model to distinguish two groups. The area under the ROC (AUC), quantifies the extent of that ability. My goal here is to describe as simply as possible a process that serves as a foundation for the ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R on Sastibe's Data Science Blog. Recently, I was tasked with a straightforward question: “In an A/B test setting, how many samples do I have to collect in order to obtain significant results?” As ususal in statistics, the answer is not quite as straightforward as the question, and it depends quite a bit on the framework. In this case, the A/B test was supposed to test whether the effect of a treatment on the success rate p had the assumed size e. The value of the success rate had to be estimated in both test and control ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Severalnines; April 2018 is not just a date for the MySQL world. MySQL 8.0 was released there, and more than 1 year after, it’s probably time to consider migrating to this new version. MySQL 8.0 has important performance and security improvements, and, as in all migration to a new database version, there are several things to take into account before going into production to avoid hard issues like data loss, excessive downtime, or even a rollback during the migration task. In this blog, we’ll mention some of the new MySQL 8.0 features, some deprecated stuff, and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. AWS re:Invent 2019 was a whirlwind of activity, especially in the Expo Hall, where the AWS team spent four days filming 12 live This is My Architecture videos for Twitch. Watch one a day for the next two weeks…or eat them all in one sitting. Whichever you do, you’re guaranteed to learn something new.Accolade Discover security and operational excellence in healthcare with Accolade. AWS Solution Builders Get multi-region Availability with Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, and Amazon Cognito. EcoFit EcoFit offers responsive, AWS Lambda-based microservices at scale. Splunk Splunk explains data at scale by decoupling compute and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Many AWS customers use a multi-account strategy. A centralized AWS Glue Data Catalog is important to minimize the amount of administration related to sharing metadata across different accounts. This post introduces capability that allows Amazon Athena to query a centralized Data Catalog across different AWS accounts.Overview of solution In late 2019, AWS introduced the ability to Connect Amazon Athena to your Apache Hive Metastore. Using this functionality, you can also configure Athena to point to a Data Catalog in a different account. The Hive Metastore functionality uses an AWS Lambda function to federate queries to ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Lora D. Delwiche. One great thing about being a SAS programmer is that you never run out of new things to learn. SAS often gives us a variety of methods to produce the same result. One good example of this is the DATA step and PROC SQL, both of which manipulate data. The DATA step is extremely powerful and flexible, but PROC SQL has its advantages too. Until recently, my knowledge of PROC SQL was pretty limited. But for the sixth edition of The Little SAS Book, we decided to move the discussion of PROC SQL ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. One of the great things about PostgreSQL is its reliability: it is very stable and typically “just works.” However, there are certain things that can happen in the environment that PostgreSQL is deployed in that can affect its uptime, such as:The database storage disk fails or some other hardware failure occurs The network on which the database resides becomes unreachable The host operating system becomes unstable and crashes A key database file becomes corrupted A data center is lost There may also be downtime events that are due to the normal case of operations, such as performing ... Read More

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Scott Resch. A digitally transformed organization is one that is “alive and awake to everything that is going on around it” and knows how to leverage connections to take advantage of its place within a complex ecosystem.  That is one of the key points made in the inaugural episode of Domo Connects, a podcast that explores matters related to digital transformation and organizational optimization through compelling conversations with some of the brightest minds in business. In the episode, I speak with Peter Sole, Helen Mumford-Sole and Julie Rufo of digital transformation insight provider Mumford Sole Partners ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Haseeb Najam. You have hired an SEO agency for your online business.You are running an outreach campaign.But how are you measuring the ROI of your search marketing activities?ROI (Return on Investment) is one of the most focused areas in marketing and economics, especially since digital marketing activities are one hundred percent measurable ineffectiveness of generating business opportunities. Although ROI is an indicator that is presented as a percentage of the profitability of a business or investment, it is also an element of great importance in the management and optimization of search marketing campaigns.Any business ... Read More