Tag: News

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Claudius Weinberger. We are super excited to share the great news of two highly-experienced minds joining team ArangoDB to shape and grow the multi-model vision with us. Matt Ekstrom is an accomplished enterprise sales leader and joins ArangoDB as Chief Revenue Officer. He brings over 20 years of sales and leadership experience with him and will lead our global sales efforts from San Francisco. Our new Head of Engineering & Machine Learning is Jörg Schad who brings nearly a decade of experience of researching, designing and developing distributed systems and machine learning pipelines to our ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Windowing functions and analytics have been around for quite some time and many people already make use of this awesome stuff in the PostgreSQL world. Timeseries  are an especially important area in this context. However, not all features have been widely adopted and thus many developers have to implement functionality at the application level in a painful way instead of just using some of the more advanced SQL techniques.The idea of this blog is to demonstrate some of the advanced stuff so that more people out there can make use of PostgreSQL’s true power.Preparing data for analyticsFor ... Read More

Feed: Cloud Data Transformation Software | Matillion. Author: Andreas Schurch, VP Alliances; Andreas Schurch, VP Alliances At Matillion, we value the relationships we have with our partners. As our business continues to grow, our partner relationships grow along with it. So it is with great excitement that we announce a private preview of the new Matillion Partner Network to select Matillion Partners. The Partner Network is a global program that allows our industry allies to come together to connect and collaborate. It provides the tools, training, and support that partners need to help their customers compete using data, by transforming ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Christie Chirinos; What do Apple, Starbucks, Disney, Under Armour, and Bank of America have in common? They all make hundreds of millions of dollars of sales while offering an incredible user experience due to multi-channel marketing.Today, our goal is to take you through how these companies are succeeding with multi-channel marketing.  But that’s not all: We’re also going to highlight the important takeaways from their multi-channel strategy, and give you tips that you can apply to your own eCommerce store and marketing strategy.What Is Multi-Channel Marketing?Marketing channel strategy refers to how products are transferred from retailer to ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Philip Piletic. Actuarial scientists have made use of PCs ever since the first affordable microcomputers came on the market. This is one field where automation and AI are old news. What’s making headlines in the industry, though, is the fact that cloud-based infrastructure is now the norm for almost all insurance companies regardless of their size.Companies that make the most efficient use of this information are often able to gain some leverage over the competition. Since they’re able to plan for the future much more easily. Data doesn’t have to be exclusively financial, however.In ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Tamar Gal. Let’s explore the complexity and vulnerability of IT infrastructure and how to build a modern IT infrastructure monitoring solution, using a combination of time series databases with machine learning. iCloud recently joined Google, Facebook, Amazon on the list of major companies that have experienced massive cloud outages. Check out ZDNet’s series of articles detailing the outages. The outage caused disruptions to the likes of YouTube, Snapchat, and Gmail, among others. iCloud’s failure also affected all their third-party apps and ApplePay, which resounded globally. We have quickly embraced the cloud as more ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Theo Roe. [This article was first published on r – Jumping Rivers, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Big news. RStudio recently started certifying trainers in three areas: the tidyverse, Shiny and teaching. To be certified to teach a topic you have to pass the exam for that topic and the teaching exam. Even bigger news. Four of your lovely Jumping Rivers trainers are now certified to teach ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Praveen Sripati. Disclosure : The intention is NOT to help others hack, but to make sure they can secure their applications built on top of AWS or some other Cloud. A few mitigations to fix the SSRF vulnerability have been mentioned towards the end of the blog. Introduction  Capital One hosted their Services on AWS and it was hacked (, ). It's a feature in AWS which was exploited and a misconfiguration done by the Capital One which caused the hack by an ex-AWS employee. The information about the hack was every where in the ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. Every week there seems to be an overwhelming amount of things happening in the tech world. New startups, products, funding rounds, acquisitions and scientific breakthroughs. All this results in a great deal of news content being produced.TechCrunch publishes about 250 stories every week – for just one publication amongst many, that’s already a lot of information to take in.Since I really love graphs and machine learning – even more so when they are combined – I thought it would be fascinating to visualize This Week in Tech stories in a graph, a ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Business Science. [This article was first published on business-science.io, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Wrangling Big Data is one of the best features of the R programming language, which boasts a Big Data Ecosystem that contains fast in-memory tools (e.g. data.table) and distributed computational tools (sparklyr). With the NEW dtplyr package, data scientists with dplyr experience gain the benefits of data.table backend. We saw a 3X speed ... Read More