Tag: Open Source

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. It is not yet clear what lasting impact the Covid-19 pandemic will ultimately have on R conferences. We are still adapting to our inability to attend large events, and trying to make the best of the “silver lining” of virtual events which permit worldwide participation. The following is an attempt to list ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Rafael Cordon. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ministerio de Educación de Guatemala (the Guatemala Ministry of Education) made the decision to close public schools to mitigate the spread of the virus. The closing of schools gave the Ministry’s authorities the opportunity to implement new solutions to enable students, teachers, and parents to continue with the education experience. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner ITZ Data (AWS Advanced Consulting Partner / Government Competency), with support from UNICEF and the Canadian Embassy in Guatemala, helped the Ministry launch Mineduc Digital—the country’s first online platform where ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. FreeRTOS is now certified for the Security Evaluation Standard for IoT Platforms (SESIP) Assurance Level 2. With this certification, FreeRTOS libraries have demonstrated meeting a specific set of security criteria for IoT platforms. In addition, embedded developers writing FreeRTOS-based applications can achieve SESIP certification for their own applications more quickly because the underlying libraries have been tested for compliance. According to the technical standards organization GlobalPlatform, SESIP provides a common and optimized approach for evaluating the security of connected products that meets the specific compliance, security, privacy and scalability challenges of the evolving IoT ecosystem. SESIP is ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Cristina McComic; AI adoption is critical for business success in the changing, competitive market. A HIMMS and IBM study found that 64% of respondents said their organizations placed a “critical” or “high” strategic priority on AI. However, many organizations are still reluctant to fully adopt AI into their processes and decision-making for fear of the unknown. “To many who aren’t data scientists, AI is still a black box and that scares us,” says Kelly Combs, Director of Emerging Technologies Risk Services at KPMG. So how do organizations go about establishing trust in their AI? The ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Andrew Treadway. Data exploration is an important part of the modeling process. It can also take up a fair amount of time. The awesome DataExplorer package in R aims to make this process easier. To get started with DataExplorer, you’ll need to install it like below: install.packages("DataExplorer") Let’s use DataExplorer to explore a dataset on diabetes. # load DataExplorer library(DataExplorer) # read in dataset diabetes_data Running the create_report line of code above will generate an HTML report file containing a collection of useful information about the data. This includes: Basic statistics, such as number of rows and ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Steve Naventi. New Enterprise tiers, fully managed by Microsoft, deliver active geo-replication, up to 99.999% availability, Redis on Flash, and expanded use cases for enterprise customers Mountain View, March 2, 2021—Today at Microsoft Ignite, Redis Labs announced the general availability of Redis Enterprise-powered tiers on Azure Cache for Redis, enabling companies to more effectively optimize for low-latency data access in their most critical applications. The Enterprise tiers are fully managed by Microsoft and are the result of a year-long collaboration between the companies to provide the most highly available, resilient, scalable, and extensible Redis service to ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Amiram Mizne. This morning, Microsoft and Redis Labs jointly announced the general availability of Azure Cache for Redis, Enterprise tiers. The service has been in public preview since last October, and is already serving customers with production Redis workloads. The GA release is now enhanced with previews of active geo-replication (with up to 99.999% availability), and disk persistence with recovery while being rolled out to an increasing number of Azure regions.  Enterprise tiers: highlights The following Enterprise and Flash tier capabilities are now generally available: Open source Redis 6.0: faster, more secure, and easier to useZone ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Steve Naventi. With the launch of version 2.0, the RediSearch in-memory index for Redis is over twice as fast as its previous iteration and offers additional ways to makes it easier for developers to create and exploit indices. Built by Redis Labs, RediSearch is a secondary index on top of Redis that eliminates internal data structures to increase responsiveness as well as make it easier for developers to harness advanced tasks such as multifield queries, aggregation and full-text search capabilities like exact phrase matching and numeric filtering for text queries. In addition to a purported maximum ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. You can initiate a minor version upgrade manually by modifying your DB cluster, or you can enable the "Auto minor version upgrade" option when creating or modifying a DB cluster. Enabling auto minor version upgrade means that your DB cluster is automatically upgraded after AWS tests and approves the new version. For more details, see Automatic Minor Version Upgrades for PostgreSQL. Please review the Aurora documentation to learn more.   Amazon Aurora combines the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. It provides up to three times better ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Steve Naventi. The shift toward online digital conferences has prompted Microsoft to reconvene Ignite about six months early this year. Scanning the data and analytics announcements, the overriding theme is of extending the reach of the portfolio of Azure data platforms.For data and analytics, the headlines on this go-round include a new Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra; support for a MongoDB 4.0 API in Azure Cosmos DB; the general availability of Azure Synapse Link for Cosmos DB; and some enhancements to Azure Cache for Redis offering. And Microsoft is introducing new tools for data warehouse ... Read More