Tag: Microsoft

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: David Smith. The foreach package provides a simple looping construct for R: the foreach function, which you may be familiar with from other languages like Javascript or C#. It's basically a function-based version of a "for" loop. But what makes foreach useful isn't iteration: it's the way it makes it easy to run those iterations in parallel, and save time on multi-CPU and distributed systems. If you want to get familiar with the foreach function, Parallelizing Loops at Microsoft Docs will introduce you to foreach oops (and the companion concept, iterators), and the various "backends" you can use ... Read More

Feed: IDERA Community Blog; Author: Beth Chauvin; Are you using Microsoft SQL Server? Use IDERA Uptime Cloud Monitor to monitor your Microsoft SQL Server performance.Uptime Cloud Monitor from IDERA (UCM) offers a SAAS based out-of-the-box solution for monitoring Microsoft SQL Server for performance and availability. If you are not familiar with the concept of custom metrics as used in Uptime Cloud Monitor, please go through Custom Metrics information once before continuing with this document.  Uptime Cloud Monitor account.  If you don’t already have an account, you can sign up for a 14 day FREE TRIAL of Uptime Cloud Monitor here ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. The enterprise-class capabilities of Teradata Database have been enhanced for Microsoft Azure Marketplace. This is great news for organizations using — or wanting to try — Teradata Database as their engine for advanced analytics to deliver optimal business outcomes for areas such as customer experience, risk mitigation, asset optimization, finance transformation, product innovation and operational excellence. Coupled with recent launches of Teradata Aster Analytics and Teradata Demand Chain Management, both on Azure, these are substantial improvements that yield an impressive solution set worthy of your attention. Try it for yourself. Teradata primer ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . The wait is over. PowerApps and Power BI can play together, regardless of who’s hosting!  We already showed you how you can embed your app inside a Power BI dashboard. Now with the new Power BI tile control, you can show your Power BI tiles inside your app. Why is this big news? Power BI is a powerful analysis and visualization tool. PowerApps is great at enabling people to take action on the web and mobile. Now you can build apps that give users great insight and let them ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: business-science.io - Articles. We have several announcements regarding Business Science R packages. First, as of this week the R package formerly known as timekit has changed to timetk for time series tool kit. There are a few “breaking” changes because of the name change, and this is discussed further below. Second, the sweep and tidyquant packages have several improvements, which are discussed in detail below. Finally, don’t miss a beat on future news, events and information by following us on social media. The timetk package (formerly timekit) is a relatively new package that is aimed at assisting ... Read More

Feed: IDERA Community Blog; Author: Binh Chau; We are pleased to announce the general availability of SQL Inventory Manager 2.4. Existing users may access through the Idera Customer Portal. New users may download the trial version from the Idera Website. What's new is version 2.4? SQL Inventory Manager 2.4 delivers a number of user improvements to help database administrators assess, manage and report on complex SQL server environments. New reporting functionality - We are providing a set of reports that will allow DBA managers to assess their organization’s current data usage and data needs.  Database administrators and managers can provide ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: David Smith. R is an object-oriented language with several object-orientation systems. There's the original (and still widely-used) S3 class system based on the "class" attribute. There's the somewhat stricter, signature-based S4 class system. There are reference classes (also called R5), which provide R objects with multiple references without duplicating data in memory. And now there's the R6 class system, implemented as an R package by Winston Chang, So why yet another class system for R? As Winston explains in his useR!2017 talk embedded below, the S3 and S4 class systems are functional object-oriented systems, where class methods are ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Lior Kamrat. This post is part of the “Mesosphere DC/OS, Azure, Docker, VMware & Everything Between” multiple blog post series. In the previous posts for this series, I looked at the following topics: Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware and everything between – Architecture and CI/CD Flow Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware and everything between – Security & Docker Engine Installation Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware & Everything Between – SSH Authorized Keys Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware & Everything Between – Deploying DC/OS with Azure Container Service What a joy! We have a working DC/OS ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Alice Rison. We are happy to announce that Microsoft Azure recently completed a new set of independent third-party ISO and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) audits to expand our certification portfolio.  Azure leads the industry with the most comprehensive compliance coverage, enabling customers to meet a wide range of regulatory obligations.  If that were not enough, having a program with industry leading depth and coverage specific to ISO is exponentially useful to our customers globally as ISO standards provide baselines for information security management that are relied upon by many other standards across regulated industries and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Mary Wahl. Authors: Mary Wahl, Shaheen Gauher, Fidan Boylu Uz, Katherine Zhao Summary We used reinforcement learning and CNTK to train a neural network to guess hidden words in a game of Hangman. Our trained model has no reliance on a reference dictionary: it takes as input a variable-length, partially-obscured word (consisting of blank spaces and any correctly-guessed letters), and a binary vector indicating which letters have already been guessed. In the git repository associated with this post, we provide sample code for training the neural network and deploying it in an Azure Web App ... Read More