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Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. Greg Wilson is a data scientist and professional educator at RStudio. As a newcomer to R who prefers to read paper rather than pixels, I’ve been working my way through a more-or-less random selection of relevant books over the past few months. Some have discussed topics that I’m already familiar with in the context of R, while others have introduced me to entirely new subjects. This post describes four of them in brief; I hope to follow up with a second post in a few months as I work through the backlog on my desk ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Rsquared Academy Blog. We are pleased to introduce the descriptr package, a set of tools forgenerating descriptive/summary statistics. Installation # Install release version from CRAN install.packages("descriptr") # Install development version from GitHub # install.packages("devtools") devtools::install_github("rsquaredacademy/descriptr") Shiny App descriptr includes a shiny app which can be launched using ds_launch_shiny_app() or try the live version here. Read on to learn more about the features of descriptr, or see thedescriptr website fordetailed documentation on using the package. Data We have modified the mtcars data to create a new data set mtcarz. The onlydifference between the two data sets is related ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: free range statistics - R. There was a flurry of activity in the last couple of days on Twitter and the blogosphere, most notably Thomas Lumley’s excellent Stats Chat, relating to whether there is a pro-government bias in surveys of New Zealand voting intention in the summer. As the analysis I’ve seen used my nzelect R package, this motivated me to update it for recent polls. The nzelect update nzelect hasn’t been updated on CRAN for some time, because about a year ago I made some major changes to the data model for the historical election results ... Read More

Feed: Blog – OrientDB. Author: Leann. The power of graph database solutions means that creating data and finding relationships between data sets is not constrained by defined data classifications, formats, storage locations or original data structure.By storing and monitoring relationship data, graph solutions enable organizations to act on changes to their data model without the limitations of a set database structure, known as schemas. A database that isn’t limited to one schema type also simplifies data modeling and querying of connected data. Although graph solutions support schema-less use, you might still want to use a schema to enforce some structure ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Scotch.io; Allowing users to login to your app is one of the most common features you'll add to a web app you build. This article will cover how to add simple authentication to your Flask app. The main package we will use to accomplish this is Flask Login. Table of Contents We're going to build some sign up and login pages that allows our app to allow users to login and access protected pages that non-logged in users can see. We'll grab information from the user model and display it on our protected pages when the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Data is most valuable when it leads to informed action. Making it easier for people to get actionable insights is what Power BI is all about. Now, with Power BI Template Apps, users can immediately begin exploring, learning, and taking action on key data with off-the-shelf apps. Template Apps are integrated packages of pre-built Power BI dashboards and reports, configured to connect to specific data sources. With them, Microsoft partners can quickly access analytics for the apps and services they provide. Partners can also manage the Template Apps development ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. I have often been accused of putting everything through the lens of data and analytics.  Many of my long-time followers know of my fondness for finding quotes or pithy sayings from movies, books, and everyday life that reinforce the message of leveraging data to drive a better outcome.One such idea is from the book Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson.  The gist of the story is that a computer achieves intelligence and quickly determines humans are the problem with the world, and you may have guessed, fun and hilarity do not ensue.  The part I love is the ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: ajit jaokar. This blog is a part of the learn machine learning coding basics in a weekend . We recommend the book Python Data Science Handbook by Jake VanderPlas There are four main libraries in Python that you need to know: numpy, pandas, mathplotlib and sklearn The Python built-in list type does not allow for efficient array manipulation. The NumPy package is concerned with manipulation of multi-dimensional arrays. NumPy is at the foundation of almost all the other packages covering the Data Science aspects of Python. From a Data Science perspective, ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Delays in institutional review board (IRB) approvals often complicate clinical research and development and delay the introduction of new therapies to market. Such bottlenecks pose additional obstacles in an industry plagued by rising development costs and increasing complexities. Out-of-the-box integration between Quorum and Oracle Health Sciences goBalto Activate cloud service addresses the inefficiencies associated with submission errors and lengthy IRB submission review cycles. Research indicates that principal investigators spend nearly half (42 percent) of their time dealing with “administrative burdens.”  This is a category in which IRB-related issues weigh heavily, with one third of that ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; For businesses that sell physical products, every single day is a web of complex, interconnecting workflows that have to go off without a hitch. Even the most mundane back-end processes (like shipping a package) directly shape the customer experience. So errors in those processes don’t just affect your efficiency as a company; they can change your bottom line. Logistics processes like shipping and receiving, however, are some of the most unwieldy workflows to manage. They don’t just span multiple applications like your ERP; they also include hardware, like the printers used to ... Read More