Tag: News

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Enza Iannopollo. California is taking the lead in the US on privacy regulation with the adoption of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Security and privacy professionals whose companies have consumers in California must get their implementation plans together now. Those that believe that CCPA is not their problem must think again: This is likely to be the first of many state-level privacy requirements. And this is just the beginning. Our data shows that compliance with global privacy laws is one of the top three challenges CISOs face, on par with the changing threat landscape ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Lorenz Walthert. How do you program? I feel like there is a lot of advice out there, but most ofit focuses on the micro level rather than on the macro level. That’s why Idecided to think about what makes one an efficient programmer on a macro level. Spend time on improving skills that help you become more productive inthe long run.For example, it’s a fact that git is the version control system of choice. Andthere is no reason why this should change tomorrow. Or in 5 year’s time. Thatin turn means that you need to know the ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Common table expressions, aka CTEs, aka WITH queries, are not only the gateway to writing recursive SQL queries, but also help developers write maintainable SQL. WITH query clauses can help developers who are more comfortable writing in imperative languages to feel more comfortable writing SQL, as well as help reduce writing redundant code by reusing a particular common table expressions multiple times in a query.A new patch, scheduled to be a part of PostgreSQL 12 major release later in the year, introduces the ability, under certain conditions, to inline common table expressions within a query. This is a huge ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Mi Chung. Google searches and the amount of searches for terms can show how interested the public is in that subject. After all, the act of Googling something is result of someone having some level of interest in that topic. The data that comes from Google searches and its statistics can give insight and different interpretation to all subjects, since there are infinite reasons someone would search for something. In this Shiny App, the interest in five rappers, including Cardi B, Drake, Kanye West, Jay Z, and 21 Savage, are explored through their Google search statistics.  In ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: xi'an. A new Le Monde mathematical puzzle in the digit category: Given 13 arbitrary relative integers chosen by Bo, Abigail can select any subset of them to be drifted by plus or minus one by Bo, repeatedly until Abigail reaches the largest possible number N of multiples of 5. What is the minimal possible value of N under the assumption that Bo tries to minimise it? I got stuck on that one, as building a recursive functiion led me nowhere: the potential for infinite loop (add one, subtract one, add one, …) rather than memory issues forced ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Bryce Merkl Sasaki. Welcome to this week’s #GraphCast – our series featuring what you might have missed in Neo4j media from the past fortnight.Last week, our Managing Editor, Jocelyn Hoppa, highlighted a two-part series of how Neo4j and machine learning help human fact-checkers detect fake news. It’s a great series and really uncovers how difficult it can be for humans alone to detect fake news and stop it in its tracks.This week, I’ve picked the Neo4j Online Meetup – which is also somehow only the third-largest Neo4j meetup(?). The Neo4j Online Meetup is coordinated ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Rcrastinate. I am currently reproducing a statistical analysis a colleague of mine conducted in Stata. Obviously, I am using R for the replication. I came across what I think is Stata’s default behavior when using log-transformed axes. This is an example. What I like about the tick lines on the axes here is that they show the “distortion” that is introduced by the logarithmic transformation. In other words: Distances between the non-transformed values shrink as we reach higher values and the tick marks show just that. I wanted to reproduce this with R and ggplot2 which does ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: John Mount. R users have been enjoying the benefits of SQL query generators for quite some time, most notably using the dbplyr package. I would like to talk about some features of our own rquery query generator, concentrating on derived result re-use. Introduction SQL represents value use by nesting. To use a query result within another query one writes the query to be used inside the query using the values. R query generators can also represent value use by nesting, but they also tend to expose a sequential pipe notation where value use is represented by sequencing ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Mary Beth Moore. Every day, military intelligence analysts sit behind computers reading a never-ending stream of reports, updating presentation templates and writing assessments. But intelligence is more than documenting events and sharing breaking news. It involves understanding and predicting complexities in human behavior across various organizational constructs and using facets of information to make assessments on past, current and future circumstances. The availability of both human and technological resources has a large affect on the quality of these assessments. For the past two decades, technology has advanced at an incredible rate. Yet the technology available to ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Everyone’s favorite corporate-driven holiday is here, and for the fortunate among you with significant others, that means a day of love, gifts and celebration. For everyone else, it probably means looking for love, and there’s no easier way to do that than with online dating apps. Chocolates and flowers are fine, but this Valentine’s Day, Cloudwards.net wants to give you a far more valuable gift. Admittedly, it’ll be like getting socks for Christmas, but if you didn’t have them, you’d be walking around with blisters every day (or just look like an unbearable hipster). We’re ... Read More