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Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Hong Ooi. Some major updates to AzureR packages this week! As well as last week's AzureRMR update, there are changes to AzureStor, AzureVM, AzureGraph and AzureContainers. All of these are live on CRAN. AzureStor 3.0.0 There are substantial enhancements to multiple-file transfers (up and down). You can supply a vector of pathnames to storage_upload/download as the source and destination arguments. Alternatively if you specify a wildcard source, there is now the ability to recurse through subdirectories; the directory structure in the source will be reproduced at the destination. There are revamped methods for getting storage properties and ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Roger Magoulas and Chris Guzikowski. Attend the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York, February 23-26, 2020 to learn the latest serverless methods and tools. For the inaugural O’Reilly survey on serverless architecture adoption, we were pleasantly surprised at the high level of response: more than 1,500 respondents from a wide range of locations, companies, and industries participated. The high response rate tells us that serverless is garnering significant mindshare in the community.1 Key findings from the survey include: Learn faster. Dig deeper. See farther. 40% of respondents work at organizations that have adopted serverless architecture in ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Jessica Groopman. As artificial intelligence (AI) struggles to meet (often overblown) expectations and deliver reliable outcomes and commercial applications, it is essential for businesses to understand that not all AI is created equal. Not only is AI an umbrella term encompassing six distinct technology categories, market dynamics vary drastically by industry, not to mention regulatory, competitive, ethical, and end-user implications. Tractica’s analysis of revenue associated with more than 215 use cases for AI estimates that the consumer market is the largest in terms of revenue share today, accounting for approximately 29% of the total AI ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Daniel Munson. The internet is an almost endless font of information and data. Most of us spend a lot of time each day interacting with the internet and learning new things from it. You may be surprised to learn that there is far more hidden data online than meets the eye. Gathering this information efficiently can give your business a competitive edge. Here are a few ways to capture hidden data online.What’s there to learn?Websites, especially well-maintained ones, have a lot of metadata. This is information about information. Nearly all of this information is ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Mayank Prasad; A user defined table and its corresponding  index data, in InnoDB, is  stored in files that have an extension .ibd. There are two types of tablespaces, general (or shared) tablespace and file-per-table.  For shared  tablespaces, data from many different  tables and their corresponding indexes may reside in a single .ibd file. Whereas, for file-per-table tablespaces, the data of a single table and its indexes  reside in one .ibd file. This blog post will talk about the space management in these .ibd files in details. .IBD FILES These files generally reside in data directory. Let’s ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Ben Lorica and Mike Loukides. Deepfakes have been very much in the news for the past two years. It’s time to think about what deepfakes are and what they mean. Where do they come from? Why now? Is this just a natural evolution in the history of technology? Deepfakes are media that are created by AI. They appear to be genuine (e.g., a video of President Obama) but have limited connection to reality. An audio track can be created that sounds indistinguishable from the victim, saying something the victim would never have said. Video can be generated ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. Today we are pleased to announce that we have received new funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The $894k grant will help us improve infrastructure for R packages and enable us to move towards a science first package ecosystem for the R community. You may have already noticed some developments on this front when we announced our automated documentation server back in June. Over the coming months we plan to roll out more tools and services to make it easier to maintain and distribute packages while capturing the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Jim Huang. By Ilan Rabinovitch, VP of Product Management at DatadogBy Jim Huang, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWSMigrating customer workloads to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud typically comprises several phases: migration readiness assessment, migration planning, the actual migration of applications, and post-migration application optimization. At each of these phases, there are tools and services to help you automate and accelerate migration tasks. This includes discovery for identifying IT assets and application dependencies, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis for developing the business case for migration, and mobility for migrating servers and ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Mariann McDonagh. Can the 80/20 Rule Be Reversed?erwin released its State of Data Governance Report in February 2018, just a few months before the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect. This research showed that the majority of responding organizations weren’t actually prepared for GDPR, nor did they have the understanding, executive support and budget for data governance – although they recognized the importance of it. Of course, data governance has evolved with astonishing speed, both in response to data privacy and security regulations and because organizations see the potential for using ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Over the past few weeks we have released several new features in Dataflows, allowing users to seamlessly ingest and prepare data that can be widely reused by other users across the Power Platform, including: 7 New Data Connectors: PDF Files Local Folder SharePoint Folder Google BigQuery HDInsight Spark Apache Spark Generic ODBC 40+ New Data Transformations: Combine Files UX Merge Queries – Visual join kind selection Additional Number/Date/DateTime/Duration transformations UX List transformations: Statistics, Sort, Keep/Remove/Reverse items Fill Up/Down Move Columns left/right/beginning/end Replace Errors Other Power Query Authoring Enhancements: Data ... Read More