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Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Blog-rss on stevenmortimer.com. I recently wrote a blog post here comparing the number of CRAN downloads an R package gets relative to its number of stars on GitHub. What I didn’t really think about during my analysis was whether or not scraping CRAN was a violation of its Terms and Conditions. I simply copy and pasted some code from R-bloggers that seemed to work and went on my merry way. In hindsight, it would have been better to check whether or not the scraping was allowed and maybe find a better way to get the information I ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Phone Number Validate also provides important metadata about end users' phone numbers. For example, it can determine if a phone number is associated with a mobile, landline, or VoIP account. Amazon Pinpoint customers can use this information to ensure that they use the right channel to deliver messages to their users. For example, if a number is associated with a mobile device, the customer can send information as an SMS text message, but if the number is associated with a VoIP or landline account, the customer can call the user and deliver the message by using text-to-speech ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. You can increase your savings by taking advantage of the dynamic scaling feature set available in Amazon EMR. The ability to scale the number of nodes in your cluster up and down on the fly is among the major features that make Amazon EMR elastic. You can take advantage of scaling in EMR by resizing your cluster down when you have little or no workload. You can also scale your cluster up to add processing power when the job gets too slow. This allows you to spend just enough to cover the cost of your ... Read More

Feed: Cloud – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Cy Jervis. Self-service BI and exploratory analytics are some of the most common use cases we see our customers running on Cloudera’s analytic database solution. Over the past year, we made significant advancements to provide a simpler user experience for SQL developers and make them more productive for their everyday self-service BI tasks and workflows by leveraging Hue as the SQL development workbench. With the recent release of Cloudera 5.15, we continued to improve the query experience with Hue, focusing on easier discoverability of the data and parameterization of shared queries. In addition ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Bob Muenchen. Introduction BlueSky Statistics’ desktop version is a free and open source graphical user interface for the R software that focuses on beginners looking to point-and-click their way through analyses.  A commercial version is also available which includes technical support and a version for Windows Terminal Servers such as Remote Desktop, or Citrix. Mac, Linux, or tablet users could run it via a terminal server. This post is one of a series of reviews which aim to help non-programmers choose the Graphical User Interface (GUI) that is best for them. Additionally, these reviews include a cursory description of the ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Andrew Grimo; There are numerous ways to filter your replication stream in MySQL.  So many, that the documentation team has created guided “walk-through” pages for considering the various complex DB Filtering and subsequent Table Filtering paths folks have used for the “global” filtering options.  But now there are “channel specific” options that can be implemented at startup with enhanced channel specific filtering configurations or dynamically using the new CHANGE  REPLICATION FILTER statements now available in MySQL 8.0. Many MySQL use-cases out there involve replication.  Many of those replication setup involve the use of replication filtering patterns too.  They ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Miriam Berhane Russom. Azure IoT Central brings the simplicity of SaaS for IoT with built-in support for IoT best practices and world class security and scalability with no cloud expertise required. We have been constantly adding features and true to the promise of SaaS applications, you can just start using new features right away to build production-grade applications without worrying about managing infrastructure. This blog post is part of a series of blog posts you will start seeing for new features in Azure IoT Central in the upcoming weeks. Azure IoT Central now leverages Azure ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Peter. If you haven’t done so lately, it’s time to take another look at MicroStrategy.  They have done a great job in updating their offerings to match what is currently hot in the marketplace.  They couple eloquently form and function together to please customers and technicians.  You are sure to find interesting and thought provoking content within their product offerings.  And you might even find things that have personal application as well as business application.Here are the latest focus points in their strategy: MicroStrategy Cloud Intelligence One of the pillars MicroStrategy is focusing on is Cloud Intelligence.  The details ... Read More

Feed: MariaDB Knowledge Base Article Feed. Author: . Additional Dependency Packages exist for 1.1.5, so make sure you install those based on the "Preparing for ColumnStore Installation" Guide. Note: Columnstore.xml modifications you manually made are not automatically carried forward on an upgrade. These modifications will need to be incorporated back into .XML once the upgrade has occurred. The previous configuration file will be saved as /usr/local/mariadb/columnstore/etc/Columnstore.xml.rpmsave. If you have specified a root database password (which is good practice), then you must configure a .my.cnf file with user credentials for the upgrade process to use. Create a .my.cnf file in the ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Dave Stokes; This time we will look at the differences in updating records between MongoDB and the MySQL Document Store.  Syntactically they are pretty different.  I am still following the Getting Started With MongoDB article for example queries. Updating Records In Mongo we update thusly:> db.restaurants.update(... { "name" : "Juni" },... {...  $set: { "cuisine" : "American (new)" }, ...  $currentDate: { "lastModified" : true }... }... )WriteResult({ "nMatched" : 1, "nUpserted" : 0, "nModified" : 1 })> The same update in the MySQL Document Store can be a lot different.  We could update using SQL ... Read More