Tag: machine learning

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Even with excellent business cloud storage and online backup platforms like Backblaze and Egnyte, a dedicated, physical server can do a lot for your small business. In addition to giving you control over how your data is stored, the best small business server should provide redundancy, expandability and upsides in security. We’ve gathered five servers that do the trick for small business, and another two honorable mentions. It doesn’t matter if you need a basic file server or a machine-learning powerhouse; there’s an option for you here. Key Takeaways: Small business servers can be expensive, ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Tiffany Carpenter. The collections process is a vital component of any lender’s business model. But it’s often an area that doesn’t receive the attention or investment it needs. Collections teams are always under pressure to do more with less – to recoup as much as possible from delinquent accounts while keeping operational costs as low as possible. This is especially difficult because collections have always been a people-intensive part of the business. The traditional approach involves a sliding scale of treatments for delinquent accounts, beginning with gentle reminders for overdue payments and escalating to more robust ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Avi Negrin. Embedded World 2021 is almost here! Embedded World is the place for all things embedded-system technologies and distributed intelligence. This year’s exhibition and conference will be entirely digital, running the week of March 1-5, 2021. In this blog post, we share sessions you won’t want to miss from AWS experts and our AWS Partners as we dive deep to showcase how device software, edge computing, and emerging technologies will shape IoT solutions we rely on every day. How might you spend your days at Embedded World this ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Peter Moore. This week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) released the report, “Unlocking APAC’s Digital Potential: Changing Digital Skill Needs and Policy Approaches.” Prepared by strategy and economics consulting firm AlphaBeta and commissioned by AWS, the report analyzes the digital skills applied by workers in their jobs today and the digital skills required by workforces over the next five years. The report focuses on six Asia Pacific (APAC) countries: Singapore, Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea. Divided into three parts, the report assesses the extent to which different digital skills are being applied at ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Axel Streichardt. Introduction Recently, SAP announced RISE with SAP, an offering that enables you to upgrade to SAP S/4HANA more easily through a single-tenant, SAP-managed ERP implementation. RISE with SAP further simplifies SAP S/4HANA adoption by bundling the technology needed to execute your cloud journey into a single offer with one contract. This offering delivers a standard production SLA of 99.7% (99.5% non-PROD) on the core RISE with SAP offering (and a 99.9% SLA with a price uplift), as well as a 20% reduction¹ in total cost of ownership (TCO) over five years compared to ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. JumpStart for Amazon Textract  is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from TensorIoT, an AWS Machine Learning Competency Partner. JumpStart for Amazon Textract enhances the the benefits of Amazon Textract by reducing setup time and adding functionality that improves the data extraction experience and streamlines the user interface. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers identification of requirements; development, testing, and verification of form templates; and deployment of the solution. JumpStart for Amazon Textract is a deployable pipeline that allows you to quickly analyze PDF documents with ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Dario Radečić. Deep Learning in R – MNIST Classifier with Keras In a day and age where everyone seems to know how to solve at least basic deep learning tasks with Python, one question arises: How does R fit into the whole deep learning picture? You don’t need deep learning algorithms to solve basic image classification tasks. Here’s how to classify handwritten digits with R and Random Forests. Here is some good news for R fans – both Tensorflow and Keras libraries are available to you, and they’re easy to configure. Today you’ll learn how to solve a well-known ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. Two hundred thirty new packages made it to CRAN in January. Here are my “Top 40” selections in ten categories: Data, Finance, Genomics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Data igoR v0.1.1: Provides tools to extract information from the Intergovernmental Organizations (‘IGO’) Database , version 3, provided by ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Today, Amazon Lookout for Vision is generally available to all AWS customers. Amazon Lookout for Vision is a machine learning (ML) service that spots defects and anomalies in visual representations of manufactured products using computer vision (CV), allowing you to automate quality inspection. In today’s manufacturing industry, production line shutdowns due to missed defects or quality inconsistencies can result in millions of dollars of cost overruns and lost revenue each year. Quality assurance in industrial processes typically requires human inspection, which can be costly, slow, and difficult to scale. With Amazon Lookout for Vision, you can automate ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Ana Crisan. Editor's note: This article originally appeared in the Tableau Engineering Blog. Data science has exploded over the past decade, changing the way that we conduct business and prepare the next generation of young people for the jobs of the future. But this rapid growth was coupled with a still evolving understanding of data science work, which has led to a lot of ambiguity toward how we can use data science to derive actionable insights from our piles of data. Having had my own career shaped by the growth of data science, I wanted to dig ... Read More