Tag: Office

Author: . As the reality of our Sofia office moved from concept (one engineer working from home) to reality (six engineers working together in a real office), it seemed that the time was ripe to have one of our almost-quarterly Engineering Summits in Bulgaria. We still have several open positions there so I felt it was a good opportunity to meet some of our recruitment partners and personally reaffirm our commitment to investing in, and growing, our office there. We believe that the strong engineering talent we are continuing to find in Sofia will be integral to realising our vision of where ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Aigerim Berzinya. The proliferation of cloud storage platforms has transformed the way in which many of us work.This is not surprising, considering that 73 percent of companies questioned for a survey, depend on at least one cloud-based application. This figure is expected to keep rising, and it is easy to see why – storing and managing files in a cloud-based platform offers a wealth of benefits. These benefits include access to documents that can be restricted to key players only, real-time collaboration which encourages teamwork, and sharing of files with groups in just a ... Read More

Feed: Events. Author: . We hope you enjoyed Next ’19 as much as we did! The past few days brought our Google Cloud community together to learn about lots of new technologies and see how customers and partners are pushing their ideas and businesses forward with the cloud. It was a lot to digest, but we’ve boiled it down here into all the announcements from the week across infrastructure, application development, data management, smart analytics and AI, productivity, partnerships, and more.1. We announced two new regions in Seoul, South Korea and Salt Lake City, Utah to expand our global footprint ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Rsquared Academy Blog. Introduction Are you trying to compare price of products across websites? Are you trying tomonitor price changes every hour? Or planning to do some text mining orsentiment analysis on reviews of products or services? If yes, how would you dothat? How do you get the details available on the website into a format inwhich you can analyse it? Can you copy/paste the data from their website? Can you see some save button? Can you download the data? Hmmm.. If you have these or similar questions on your mind, you have come tothe right place ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Georgia Mariani. What's the impact of using data governance and analytics for the business side of education? It's an interesting question, and during a video interview, Dale Pietrzak, Ed.D., Director of Institutional Effectiveness and Accreditation (IEA) at the University of Idaho shared details on the results they're realizing from using SAS for data governance and analytics. It's exciting to see they progress they've made since my previous blog post. Using a range of self-service dashboards, their administrators now have access to insight-rich trend data on enrollment, admissions, student performance and more – tangible information to drive proactive ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jerry Vasquez; The healthcare sector is rapidly changing.When the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was signed into law in 2009, and the HIPAA Omnibus Rule was published in 2013, they set the stage for the rapid digitization of the American healthcare sector. This digitization has already dramatically improved the information available to doctors and other healthcare practitioners in a variety of contexts and has undoubtedly saved lives.By encouraging the establishment of electronic health records (EHRs), HITECH also resulted in the dramatic expansion of businesses that store and process these kinds of ... Read More

Feed: Events. Author: . Expanding our identity and security offeringsSecurity is at the core of everything we do, and it continues to be a major focus of Google Cloud. Today’s announcements are all designed to bring you more visibility and more control over your security environment and help you adopt the BeyondCorp security model to improve IT, developer, and end-user efficiency.What we announced: securityAccess Transparency (new GA and beta services, GA for G Suite) and Access Approval (beta) give you meaningful oversight over provider operations.Data Loss Prevention (DLP) user interface (beta) and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Service Controls (GA) help ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Sian Roberts. Natural language understanding (NLU) is a subfield of natural language processing (NLP) that enables machine reading comprehension. While both understand human language, NLU goes beyond the structural understanding of language to interpret intent, resolve context and word ambiguity, and even generate human language on its own. NLU is designed for communicating with non-programmers – to understand their intent and act on it. NLU algorithms tackle the extremely complex problem of semantic interpretation – that is, understanding the intended meaning of spoken or written language, with all the subtleties, of human error, such as mispronunciations ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Jesse Anderson. Comparing apples and oranges (source: frankieleon on Flickr) Jesse Anderson will teach the "Professional Kafka development" tutorial at the Strata Data Conference in London, April 29-May 2, 2019. "A scientist can discover a new star, but he cannot make one. He would have to ask an engineer to do it for him." –Gordon Lindsay Glegg, The Design of Design (1969) A few months ago, I wrote about the differences between data engineers and data scientists. I talked about their skills and common starting points. An interesting thing happened: the data scientists started ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: William Vorhies. Summary:  McKinsey says platform companies will represent 30% of global business revenue by next year (2020).  Here are some lessons and examples to help mature companies evaluate where they can create AI/ML-enabled platforms to remain competitive.  This is a long topic so this will be Part 1 of 2.   As data scientists increasingly become critical resources in enabling companies’ exploration and exploitation of their digital resources, it’s also increasingly important that data scientists can provide accurate and focused business guidance.  If that seems like a mouthful, try these ... Read More