Tag: News

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. I have no idea how I missed that, but: if it wasn't for Alvaro's blog post I wouldn't know that: on 7th of April 2020, Alvaro Herrera committed patch: Support FETCH FIRST WITH TIES   WITH TIES is an option to the FETCH FIRST N ROWS clause (the SQL standard's spelling of LIMIT), where you additionally get rows that compare equal to the last of those N rows by the columns in the mandatory ORDER BY clause.   There was a proposal by Andrew Gierth to implement this functionality in a more powerful way that would yield ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. The FinCEN Files InvestigationThe International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has recently exposed a vast network of industrial-scale money laundering running through Western banks and generally ignored by U.S. regulators – and they used Neo4j to help crack the case wide open.The global investigation, dubbed the FinCEN Files, reveals how money launderers move their dirty money. From drug cartels and corrupt regimes to arms trafficking and other international crimes, these global banks have turned a blind eye – or even straight up refused to stop – as they earn huge profits from ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Anjelica Cummings. Five years ago, 193 countries joined forces and formed the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. These goals, which are commonly referred to as the Global Goals, serve as a universal promise—an ambitious pledge to build a better future for people and planet by 2030. This year marks the final 10-year stretch to turn the Global Goals into reality. Typically, I’d say 10 years feels more like a lifetime away, but not when I look at the magnitude of these goals—ending poverty, combating climate change, ensuring global food security, and creating access to decent work ... Read More

Feed: Cambridge Intelligence. Author: Dan Williams. Our new KronoGraph product is easy to use, producing beautiful, interactive timelines directly from your data.If you’re a developer, the good news is that you get to decide which coding language is best for your application. KronoGraph has a plain JavaScript API that you can adapt to any framework, or a React component to quickly drop into React applications. Next time we’ll focus on React, but in this blog, I’ll show you how to create a timeline visualization using the JavaScript API. And just for fun, it takes a closer look at the ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. The dire statistics on the COVID-19 epidemic had me go on a tailspin of worry, anxiety, and frenzied reaction. I was buying masks, disinfecting the hell out of everything that I would touch and generally being the stay at home wallflower that did not quite come naturally to me. All this in direct response to headlines and statistics that essentially promised a life filled in purgatory if I did not take the right precautions now.  To be clear, the COVID-19 pandemic is indeed dangerous. It ought to be taken seriously; and it is likely to cause immense personal, ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Audrey Throne. During the past few decades, there have been incredible inventions that have revolutionized the way we drive the car. The motive behind these inventions is to make driving hassle-free, safe, and cut the cost of buying and maintaining a vehicle in the future.Besides, eco-friendly features are increasingly becoming a norm in the automotive sector, which will lessen the use of non-renewable energy resources and the hazardous impact of fuel emissions.Tech modifications in the automotive industry are relatively fast-paced. Introducing innovations is the topmost priority of automobile manufacturers to cater to customers’ demands ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Diego Lopez Yse. Do you think your actions are the result of your own free choices? What if those actions are the inevitable and necessary consequence of antecedent states of affairs? What does this mean for your free will? In a deterministic world where there’s an exclusive future for all our actions, digital users can become more predictable and monetizable than ever. In fact, by using creative designs and deceptive strategies, companies can create deterministic worlds and exploit the fact that human behaviour is hardwired to choose the path of least ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Charlie Custer. Exciting news: for the next week, all courses are free. Yup, every single course in every learning path is free from Sept 21-28. This free week includes all of our courses in R, Python, SQL, machine learning, Git, the command line, and much more! Even more exciting: complete at least one mission during this week and you’ll unlock an additional prize: a downloadable data science career resources pack sent to your email! Now, it’s easier than ever to go from total beginner to job-qualified using Dataquest. The paywall is down! (No credit card required.) How ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. This diary-of-an-engineer post from our Citus open source engineering team was originally published on the Azure Postgres Blog. When working on the internals of Citus, an open source extension to Postgres that transforms Postgres into a distributed database, we often get to talk with customers that have interesting challenges you won’t find everywhere. Just a few months back, I encountered an analytics workload that was a really good fit for Citus. But we had one problem: the percentile calculations on their data (over 300 TB of data) could not meet their SLA of 30 seconds. To make ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R | Quantum Jitter. [This article was first published on R | Quantum Jitter, 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.Reading news articles on the will-they-won’t-they post-Brexit trade negotiations with the EU sees days of optimism jarred by days of gloom. Do negative news articles, when one wants a positive outcome, leave a deeper impression?I wondered if I could get a more objective view from quantitative analysis of textual data ... Read More