Tag: News

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Mehrnoosh Vahdat, PhD.; The collaboration of the IBM Data Science and AI Elite (DSE) with Rolls-Royce continues to yield significant results for the Emergent Alliance. This not-for-profit alliance supports innovation and resilience as organizations move toward a post-COVID-19 future. The team’s first project involved creating a risk-pulse index to help governments understand the impact of COVID-19 on several aspects of the economy. The IBM and Rolls-Royce team pressed on developing analytics tools to help policymakers better understand the data used to shape strategies in response to COVID-19. They aimed to provide further insights to ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Stephanie Glen. A significant portion of social media content uses Algorithmic Filtering (AF). AF results in issues with fake news, polarizing opinions. A tweak to AF may be the solution for improving the user experience. According to a recent Pew Research Center Study, 53% of U.S. Adults get their news regularly from social media platforms (SMPs) [1]. The news is mixed with content from advertisers, celebrities, friends, and influencers—making it difficult to separate factual from fake and useful from useless. MIT professors Sarah H. Cen and Devavrat Shah offer a simple ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R | JLaw's R Blog. [This article was first published on R | JLaw's R Blog, 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. One of my guilty pleasure TV shows is MTV’s The Challenge. Debuting in the late 90s, the show pitted alumni from The Real World and Road Rules against each other in a series of physical events. Now on its 36th season, its found new popularity by ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Kurt A Cagle. Some twenty years ago, as I was starting out my own career as both a technologist and a journalist, I had an opportunity to go to a conference on the intersection of the two in San Francisco. The trip itself was eventful, at least in part because it happened, unbeknownst to planners of the conference itself, to coincide with a parade of nudists and nude bicyclists that happened to pass right in front of the hotel. Needless to say, the parade (if not the parade folk) ended up ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: J.D. Bean. Government, education, nonprofit, healthcare, and other public sector organizations process and store sensitive data including health records, tax data, personally identifiable information (PII), student data, criminal justice information, and financial data. These workloads carry stringent security and compliance requirements to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of this data both in transit and at rest. Best practices for protection of data in transit include enforcing appropriately defined encryption requirements, authenticating network communications, and implementing secure key and certificate management systems. In this post, I demonstrate a solution for deploying a highly available ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Ray Rogers. People around the world rely on continuing education and upskilling courses to build on their existing knowledge and learn new, industry-specific skills sets. In Singapore, Community Centres (CCs) and Resident Committees (RCs) offer a variety of upskilling courses for residents. CCs and RCs are part of the network of the People’s Association (PA), a Singaporean statutory board with a mission to build and bridge communities. To improve CCs’ and RCs’ time-intensive, manual process of course administration, PA and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), launched a cloud-based web portal ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Bryce Merkl Sasaki. Graph technology is the future. Not only do graph databases effectively store relationships between data points, but they’re also flexible in adding new kinds of relationships or adapting a data model to new business requirements.But how do companies today use graph databases to solve tough problems? In this blog series, we’ll cover the top 10 use cases for graph technology and for each we include a real-world example. This blog series continues with a look at using graph technology with knowledge graphs.The previous blog in our ten-part series analyzed how ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. This is something a lot of people want: being able to track changes happening on their database when and who ordered them. Well, I have good news, my friends, there is a native feature in Postgres that can help you achieve that exact goal!DDL and DML First things first, what are DDL and DML? Both DDL and DML are a subset of the SQL language. DDL means Data Definition Language (or Data Description Language). It means the SQL orders you need to create or modify database objects. An example of a DDL query is a create query ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Ben Butler. Cloud Innovation Centers (CICs) powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) aim to empower public sector organizations to quickly create and test new ideas using Amazon’s innovation methodology. In the second half of 2020, all those who participate in the CIC program, from students and researchers to the technology teams from AWS, worked on wide-ranging societal problems. Their focus was on improving education with virtual computer labs, working on climate change initiatives, improving economic and healthcare research, and supporting at-risk high school students. What were they up to at the end of 2020? Connecting ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Dario Radečić. Deep Learning in R – MNIST Classifier with Keras In a day and age where everyone seems to know how to solve at least basic deep learning tasks with Python, one question arises: How does R fit into the whole deep learning picture? You don’t need deep learning algorithms to solve basic image classification tasks. Here’s how to classify handwritten digits with R and Random Forests. Here is some good news for R fans – both Tensorflow and Keras libraries are available to you, and they’re easy to configure. Today you’ll learn how to solve a well-known ... Read More