Tag: optimization

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Emmanuelle Rieuf. This article was written by Swati Kashyap. Swati is a data science & analytics enthusiast. Currently,she is learning data science at Analytics Vidhya. Mathematics & Statistics are the founding steps for data science and machine learning. Most of the successful data scientists I know of, come from one of these areas – computer science, applied mathematics & statistics or economics. If you wish to excel in data science, you must have a good understanding of basic algebra and statistics. However, learning Maths for people not having background in mathematics can be intimidating. First, ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Mahesh Kumar CV. Global trends like fuel price fluctuations, geopolitical events and government regulations have a huge impact on the airline industry. In an industry at the mercy of unpredictable trends, it is all the more important for companies to gather, analyze and apply data intelligently to all business processes. Some key use cases where AI will provide tons of value in the aviation industry are as follows: 1. Optimizing MRO via Preventive Maintenance  Material repair and overhaul account for a large part of an airlines’ budget and operational capacity. Typically, ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Emily Gao. My colleague Wayne Thompson has written a series of blogs about machine learning best practices. In this series' fifth post, Autotune models to avoid local minimum breakdowns, Wayne discusses two autotune methods, grid search and Bayesian optimization. According to another colleague’s paper, Automated Hyperparameter Tuning for Effective Machine Learning, Bayesian optimization is currently popular for hyperparameter optimization. Recently, I read a post on Github which demonstrated the Bayesian optimization procedure through a great demo using Python, and I wondered if I could build the same with the SAS matrix language, SAS/IML. In this article, ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Capri Granville. By Avrim Blum, John Hopcroft, and Ravindran Kannan (2018).  Computer science as an academic discipline began in the 1960s. Emphasis was on programming languages, compilers, operating systems, and the mathematical theory that supported these areas. Courses in theoretical computer science covered finite automata, regular expressions, context-free languages, and computability. In the 1970s, the study of algorithms was added as an important component of theory. The emphasis was on making computers useful. Today, a fundamental change is taking place and the focus is more on applications. There are many reasons ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Peter Cooper. IoT is ushering in an exciting—and sometimes exasperating—time of innovation. Adoption isn’t easy, so it’s important to hold a vision of the promise of Industry 4.0 in mind as you get ready for this next wave of business. IoT can serve as an onramp to continual transformation, providing companies with the ability to capitalize more fully on automation, AI, and machine learning. As companies harness the power of IoT, cloud services, robotics, and other emerging technologies, they’ll discover new ways of working, creating, and living. They’ll test and learn more swiftly, and scale ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: daniel-hernandez; New innovations go through an evolution of dismissal, avoidance, fear and finally acceptance. AI is no exception – but it’s not magic and it’s not science fiction. It’s computer science fused with business reality – and it can help you, your business, your employees, and your customers through better prediction, automation and optimization.Business leaders are striving to get more from their data but data remains unanalyzed, inaccessible or untrusted. Yet we are in a digital world, and it is data that fuels digital transformation. As some in the ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Robin Schumacher, SVP and Chief Product Officer. We’re excited to announce DataStax Constellation, our new cloud platform that’s designed to bring a whole new level of sophistication and capabilities to the Database as a Service (DBaaS) market in a very cost-effective manner. Constellation is a major addition to our already available powerful set of cloud capabilities and solutions. And while it’s true that other DBaaS offerings have been on the market for a while now, Constellation makes them look like a Blackberry to our iPhone. What Is Constellation? Constellation is a cloud ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jan Koch; With loading speed being one of the crucial factors that make or break the success of a WordPress website, WordPress caching plugins are all over the place these days.There are free caching plugins and premium ones. Companies bombard us with their marketing, explaining why their WordPress caching plugin is the best one.Ever wonder:How do those WordPress caching plugins actually work?Why do they make our sites load faster?Why do they sometimes break the entire layout of our websites?In this article, I’m walking you through the actions performed by caching plugins in the background. Don’t worry, ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: The Pythian Group; In this blog post, we continue on our series of exploring MyRocks mechanics by looking at the configurable server variables and column family options. In our last post, I explained at a high level how compression and bloom filtering are applied to data files as they are initially flushed from immutable memtables and are subsequently passed through the compaction process. With that being covered, we should now have a clear understanding as to how data writing works in MyRocks and can start reviewing how data read requests are handled. The Read Process Let’s ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Steve Iva; Google processes 3.8 billion searches every day. With such a large audience, it is only natural that Google Ads, the advertising platform of Google, has become one of the standard tools among marketers today. With this article, we want to give you nine practical tips to get more out of your Google Ads campaigns and achieve the best results with your marketing efforts. Unfortunately, you’re not the only one who got wind of it. Many people like to access the large data pools and algorithms of the internet giant from California. It’s not for nothing ... Read More