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Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: . The healthcare AI stream at the AI Summit in London during June provided a fascinating look at how AI is being used to solve real healthcare problems. Consider some of the meta challenges of healthcare: overwhelming amounts of poorly connected data; the unpredictable nature of sickness and wellness; longer life expectancy; and costs. Now consider some of the strengths of AI: disparate data analysis and prediction and the automation of mundane, redundant tasks. There is perhaps no other field where AI could have such a significant positive impact on outcomes. Two cases discussed at ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop Dev. Author: Nagapriya Tiruthani. Announcing the immediate availability of Db2 Big SQL on Cloudera’s platform, CDH v6.2.  Extending the recent support on CDH v5, Db2 Big SQL will now add support to Cloudera Distributed Hadoop (CDH) v6.2 platform along with Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) v2.6 & v3.1. Db2 Big SQL is an advanced SQL engine optimized for advanced analytics in a Big Data environment. IBM infuses the power of industry leading Db2 in open source technologies for machine learning, interactive, adhoc and batch analytics use cases.  The core capabilites of a mature SQL engine brings enterprise SQL capabilies to Big Data platform ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Data lakes are an increasingly popular way to create a single repository to store and analyze both structured and unstructured data. AWS Lake Formation makes it easy for you to set up, secure, and manage data lakes. This post walks you through the creation and exploration of a data lake using Lake Formation:Creating the data lake o  Adding data to your data lake o  Creating catalog databases o  Adding tables from Amazon S3 to catalog databases Editing and adding metadata within the catalog o  Editing standard metadata o  Adding custom metadata Prerequisites For this post, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Kevin Kelly. By Kevin Kelly, Director of AWS Certification and Education ProgramsWe’ve heard from AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners and customers around the world that hiring skilled cloud talent can be a challenge. As part of our larger AWS Training and Certification vision, we want to help build a pipeline for entry-level cloud roles. To this end, we have a new cohort of cloud-ready, AWS-trained individuals ready for employment across the United States. We are excited to announce the launch of AWS re/Start in the U.S. after a two-year pilot in the United ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Jen Sabourin. We’ve been hosting SummerSTEM teachers for 5 years now and it just keeps getting better and better. This year, our focus was on data, which is central to SAS’s mission and also an important component of project-based learning (PBL). If you’re not familiar, the SummerSTEM program is led by Wake Ed Partnership and its focus is on providing teachers from Wake County Public Schools with professional development on using PBL to enrich student learning in the coming year. Furthermore, teachers get hands-on experience at area businesses to bring authenticity and industry needs to the ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Rsquared Academy Blog. [This article was first published on Rsquared Academy Blog, 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. Introduction In a previous post, we had briefly looked at connecting to databases from R and using dplyr for querying data. In this new expanded post, we will focus on the following: connect to & explore database read & write data use RStudio SQL script & knitr SQL engine query ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: holly-vatter; In a previous blog, I explained how data science capabilities, massive parallel processing (MPP)and usability improvements in data warehouse appliances can help the bottom line—and why old-fashioned architectures might not cut it. But what does that look like in practice? Research firm Quark + Lepton recently published a report where they compared two data warehouse appliances: the IBM Integrated Analytics System (IAS) and Teradata IntelliFlex. What they found is a 45 percent lower TCO on average for IAS over five years. The two are separated by a fundamental ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. By John Abel, vice president, cloud and technology at Oracle UK, Ireland, and Israel Data may be the new oil, but it needs an engine to become fuel. Many organizations find themselves lost at sea and buffeted by winds of uncertainty. They ride on an ocean of data but lack the capabilities to turn it into value. Data-driven insight, however, enables organizations to innovate, compete and achieve their business goals. Ultimately, it’s not the data you have, but how you use it that counts. Here are just some of the ways the Oracle Cloud ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. What is Self-Service Analytics? Self-service analytics is a common buzzword for many organizations which desire to be more data driven and less dependent on IT for their data needs. Organizations are increasingly implementing self-service capabilities to enable and promote a data-driven culture within their organizations. Gartner, Inc. predicts that by 2019, the analytics output of business users with self-service capabilities will surpass that of professional data scientists. Self-service analytics sound great, but how sustainable is it? In a series of articles, we will dive into self-service, starting first with “What is self-service analytics?”.  Every user wants to be ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Facebook Code Engineering; Operating systems that serve millions (or even billions) of people can present unprecedented, complex engineering challenges. Last year, we launched the Systems @Scale conference to bring together engineers from various companies to discuss those challenges. At this year’s event, attendees gathered to hear speakers from Facebook, LinkedIn, Uber, and other companies discuss innovative solutions for large-scale information systems. If you missed the event, you can view recordings of the presentations below. If you are interested in future events, visit the @Scale website or follow the @Scale Facebook page. Keynote Benjamin Reed, Assistant Professor, ... Read More