Tag: Office

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Matthias Nistler. Like the data hunter he is, my STATWORX colleague Jakob came across a rich data source regarding gas station prices. While his focus has been on checking very common myths about gas prices (check out his blogpost!), he did a fantastic job at cleaning and preparing the raw data to get it in a usable format in the first place. Obviously, I wanted to check whether one can make use of this data and further freely accessible data sources to check gas companies narratives. Let me guide you through my work process! Opening the treasure ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Mike Sherman; Every day we see more and more security compromises in the news for large and small companies around the world. Whether you have a small company or an international organization, no one is safe from hackers and malicious attackers. In order to combat the high volume of attacks and attackers, companies must be proactive with their security measures and stay up-to-date with the current security best practices in order to protect their business from loss of data, compromises of sensitive information, and denial of service attacks.Here are the top five security best practices for ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Andrew Bartels. Recent stock and bond market turmoil has highlighted the growing risk of a US economic slowdown and even a recession — a prospect that 74% of economists think will happen by 2021, according to a survey of US economists by the National Association of Business Economists.   We at Forrester are not quite as pessimistic. But in our just published forecast for the US tech market (“US Tech Market Outlook For 2019 To 2020: Slowing Economic Growth And Rising Cloud Will Squeeze CIO Options”) we do expect a slowing US economy will lead to ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Sebastien Charrot. The impact of analytics on our daily lives can sometimes feel abstract and indirect. Even important decisions made using analytics – like an employer deciding whether to give you an interview – often take place behind a screen, in a location far away from us. Data-driven decisions like these are no less important to us, but I’ve always been interested in the more direct application of analytics. This is analytics at the edge, deployed in real time to solve real problems for real people. There is no better place to see the real-world potential of ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Jason Timm. [This article was first published on Jason Timm, 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. In this post, we investigate how (& how often) members of the 116th House of Representatives refer to the 45th president of the United States on Twitter. TRUMP, POTUS, PRESIDENT TRUMP, @realDonaldTrump — options abound. Here, we consider how a House Rep’s stance towards (or opinion of) 45 influences the choice of ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. During the months of August and September, Oracle Volunteers worldwide Focus on Education by finding or creating volunteer opportunities with their favorite education-focused nonprofit or public school. One educational nonprofit that is near and dear to our hearts is Oracle Education Foundation. Oracle Education Foundation is a nonprofit organization funded by Oracle and staffed by Oracle employees. Its mission is to help young people develop the technical acumen, creative confidence, empathy, and grit to become outstanding designers of solutions to people’s needs and the world’s problems. In the Foundation’s program, Oracle Volunteers coach students ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . To establish data-driven cultures, organizations around the world leverage Power BI for their large-scale BI deployments. Empowering tens of thousands of people with reliable data is no easy feat. IT departments and BI teams bear the responsibility of delivering a solution where people feel safe and confident exploring insights. Consistent branding and corporate representation earn the trust of the people in your organization using Power BI. Today, I am thrilled to announce the release of custom branding for the Power BI service. Now you can change the look and ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: bluemedora_editor. For any given task, there are many tools you can use. But few are the right tools. If you’re in IT, you’ve probably heard the saying “Use the right tool for the job.” In architects’ meetings, this sentence echoes from one corner to the other. In my career, I’ve heard it more times than I can count. And the wisdom behind it has stood the test of time. That’s because when it comes to how data is stored, it’s not one-tool-fits-all for every type of data. In this post, you’re going to learn about MongoDB ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: sam. settle down and have another cup of coffee There are a lot of Russian’s talking to a lot of Trump campaign members in Mueller report. There are so many it’s tough to get your head around it all. In this post I attempted some network analysis on the relations between campaign officials and Russians. I found that one can ‘compress’ Russian involvement into 9 (mostly) distinct groups. I then summarize these points of contacts. Volume 1 of Mueller Report starts with Russian interference in 2016 US Presidential Elections. Russia did so in two Ways. The first ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Curtis McHale; When you start a business, you’re buoyed by dreams. Of course, the business will be successful. You know you’re great at your job because you’ve been told that before. You’re a technical or design genius, and you’re just waiting to be able to work for yourself and have some more freedom. Unfortunately, for many beginning freelancers, there is a big wake up call coming.For me, there were a number of small things that almost killed my business, some of them many times over the time I’ve been working for myself.Business Killing ErrorsLet’s start by ... Read More