Tag: Library

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Thinking inside the box. [This article was first published on Thinking inside the box , 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. A new release 0.4.12 of RQuantLib arrived on CRAN today, and was uploaded to Debian as well. QuantLib is a very comprehensice free/open-source library for quantitative finance; RQuantLib connects it to the R environment and language. This version does relatively little. When QuantLib 1.18 came out, I ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Thinking inside the box. [This article was first published on Thinking inside the box , 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. A new (upstream) simdjson release was announced by Daniel Lemire earlier this week, and my Twitter mentions have been running red-hot ever since as he was kind enough to tag me. Do look at that blog post, there is some impressive work in there. We wrapped up ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Unknown. [This article was first published on Deeply Trivial, 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. For the letter C, we’ll talk about the coalesce function. If you’re familiar with SQL, you may have seen this function before. It combines two or more variables into a single column, and is a way to deal with missing data. When you give it a list of variables, it selects the first ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Shadow is one of the largest names in cloud gaming, and for good reason. Outfitted with a full Windows 10 desktop and support for every game that runs on Microsoft’s OS, it’s the closest thing we’ve found to local gaming in the cloud.  Microsoft’s yet-to-be-released cloud gaming service, Project xCloud, is competent in its own right, though it struggles when it comes to game support and performance. In this Shadow vs Project xCloud matchup, we’re going to compare the two in features, pricing, ease of use, coverage, game support, platform support and performance to see ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Lucas de Paula. Whether you like it or not, Microsoft Excel is still a big hit in the data analysis world. From small to big customers, we still see fit for daily routines such as filtering, generating plots, calculating items on ad-hoc analysis or even running statistical models. Whenever I talk to customers, there is always someone who will either ask: Can this be exported to excel or can we import data from excel?. Recently, other questions started to come up more often: Can we run Python within SAS? How do I allow my team to ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Julian Wood. This series of blog posts uses the AWS Well-Architected Tool with the Serverless Lens to help customers build and operate applications using best practices. In each post, I address the nine serverless-specific questions identified by the Serverless Lens along with the recommended best practices. See the Introduction post for a table of contents and explaining the example application.Question OPS1: How do you evaluate your serverless application’s health? Evaluating your metrics, distributed tracing, and logging gives you insight into business and operational events, and helps you understand which services should be optimized to improve ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Unknown. [This article was first published on Deeply Trivial, 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. Moving on to the letter B, today we’ll talk about merging datasets that contain the same variables but add new cases. This is easily done with bind_rows. Let’s say I realized I forgot to log some of the books I read last year, and I wanted to merge those in to my existing ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Google Stadia and Shadow are two of the biggest names in cloud gaming. Both offer excellent remote gaming experiences, earning spots in our best cloud gaming guide. In this Google Stadia vs Shadow comparison, however, only one can emerge victorious.  We’re going to compare the services in game support, device support, coverage, performance, pricing, ease of use and features to see which is the better option for your money. Google Stadia and Shadow take very different approaches to cloud gaming, and we’ll be taking into account all of those differences throughout this guide.  Still, you ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. Having a lot of data available to you is a good thing, right?  That depends.  Data is a raw material, like a mineral mined from the ground.  It contains a potential for creating value, but that potential is only realized through refinement.Your company produces a lot of data every day (every second really). Merely creating and/or possessing this data doesn’t mean it is generating value for you.  Harvesting value from your company data requires a transformation process to convert data into information, to actionable insights, to decisions, and then to action. Data management professionals, IT ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Nagdev. [This article was first published on R – Hi! I am Nagdev, 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. In last few years, AutoML or automated machine learning as become widely popular among data science community. Big tech giants like Google, Amazon and Microsoft have started offering AutoML tools. There is still a split among data scientists when it comes to AutoML. Some fear that it is going ... Read More