Tag: News

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. There are times when financial markets trend up. There are times that markets trend down.  And then there are times that the markets go crazy and the only thing predictable is volatility. When markets encounter these volatile periods, financial services companies become highly reliant on data analytics to determine where the real market forces are coming from and determine how best to react. There are five key analytics capabilities that financial services companies need to perform effectively in a volatile market environment.Connected Data The more data you have available to analyze, the more accuracy you ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; This is a three-part blog series that focuses on dealing with an unexpected high traffic event as it is happening. Part one can be found here, and part two can be found here.  13. Configure MySQL Server ProperlyComplexity:MediumPotential Impact: High A poorly configured MySQL Server can cause severe issues, especially under high load during a traffic spike, yet getting the basics right is not that hard. While MySQL Server has more than 400 variables you can tune, you rarely need to change more than 10-20 of them to get 95% of the possible performance for ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: free range statistics - R. Possibly you have seen this graphic circulating on social media. At first it doesn’t look too remarkable, but then you notice the vertical axis. Oh. The gridlines are equally spaced on the page, but sometimes the same space represents 30 people, sometimes 10, and sometimes 50. It isn’t even strictly increasing – which might be expected if someone was trying to crudely copy by hand the effect of a logarithmic scale – but seems to be completely arbitrary. It’s so bad it’s funny. This is clearly incompetence not malevolence. But it’s a ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Alyssa Grube. Alfred Liu, Head of SAS China Research and Development Written by Alfred Liu, SAS China R&D Alfred Liu, Head of SAS China Research and Development, shares his story about working through the coronavirus outbreak in China, tips for others going through it and his hopes for a return to normal life soon. The Coronavirus Hits On Dec. 31, when Wuhan found a patient with SARS-like characteristics, I didn’t expect that it would break out and the horrible time experienced in 2003 would be back again. Jan. 23, 2020 was the last working day before ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Álvaro Hernández · Apr 6, 2020 · 1 min read Share this post Álvaro Hernández Founder and CEO JOINs the hard way: comparing MongoDB and Postgres Dr. Michael Stonebraker and I have just published a new blog post on our series comparing MongoDB and Postgres. This second post compares JOINing data in MongoDB and Postgres, and follows on our previous post, “Schema Later” Considered Harmful. This new post analyzes how to structure data in both systems to model a classical employee-department data model. We analyze why the embedded model won’t work for the Mongo case, and why ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Federica Gazzelloni. Looking through the data available on the internet, reading news and listening to the last outcomes of the new coronavirus outbreak, decided to go moreover about this virulent impact on our society as a whole. The first outcome has been registered on the 20th of January, following the WHO website statistical information, and the evolution has been very impressive and still not eventually ending until Today 2nd of March 2020. Briefly, without going much further on the significance of the impact of this virus and the effective consequences on ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: Jamie Gale; Zoom Video Communications is a remote conferencing services company. Many organizations use their product for its video conferencing, online meetings, chat, and mobile collaboration to stay in contact with remote colleagues, customers, partners, etc. Zoom’s value and use has skyrocketed over the last several weeks, mostly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Between December 2019 and March 2020, they have gone from 10 million users per day to 200 million. By clicking “Join,” we are trusting that Zoom will provide the necessary security to protect our personal information and the content of our Zoom sessions. Unfortunately, ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) today announced that it received notice of an unsolicited "mini-tender" offer by Ponos Industries LLC (Ponos Industries) to purchase up to 2,000,000 shares of Oracle capital stock, which represents approximately 0.063% of the common shares outstanding, at a price of $50.00 per share in cash. Please be aware that shareholders are not required to respond to Ponos Industries’ offer. Oracle does not endorse Ponos Industries’ unsolicited mini-tender offer and recommends that Oracle shareholders do not tender their shares in the offer. Ponos Industries has included in the terms of its offer a ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; This is a three-part blog series. Be on the lookout for parts two and three in the coming days.There was no reason to plan for it, but the load on your system increased 100%, 300%, 500%, and your MySQL database has to support it. This is a reality many online systems have to deal with these days. This series focuses on dealing with the unexpected high traffic event as it is happening.There are also a lot of things you can do proactively, which we covered in “Prepare Your Databases for High Traffic on ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Sebastian Wolf. Governments and COVID-19: Which one stops it faster, better, has fewer people dying? These questions get answered with my dashboard. A contribution to the shiny-contest: https://community.rstudio.com/t/material-design-corona-covid-19-dashboard-2020-shiny-contest-submission/59690 Intro How did Corona spread? Using the animation feature of R-shiny this can be easily tracked.COVID-19 is the major topic in all news channels. The place I live in is Munich, Germany. Within weeks Germany moved from 3 patients in the hospital next to my home, to have 20,000 patients. As a data-scientist, I did not only see the numbers but the exponential growth. I wanted to know: How ... Read More