Tag: Patterns

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Katrine Spirina. 23 July 2019Author Katrine SpirinaBusiness intelligence (BI) is a set of strategies and tools that companies can employ to handle the analysis of business data. The tools and solutions, especially custom-made ones, facilitate the work of experts in monitoring KPIs of business, analyzing fast-changing market realities and factors impacting performance. Business intelligence solutions are a trend that is here to empower business owners to make decisions based on rich data, not their gut instinct.AI Increases Analytics Literacy and Impacts Decision MakingCompanies effectively use BI apps to thrive and maintain leading positions against competitors ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Lily Kim. Earlier this month we released our latest Azure Blueprint for a key compliance standard with the availability of the UK OFFICIAL blueprint for the Government-Cloud (G-Cloud) standard, and National Health Service (NHS) Information Governance of the United Kingdom. The new blueprints map a set of Azure policies to appropriate UK OFFICIAL and UK NHS controls for any Azure deployed architecture. This allows UK government agencies and partners, and UK health organizations to more easily create Azure environments that might store and process UK OFFICIAL government data and health data. Azure Blueprints is a ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Andrea Manero-Bastin. This article was written by Louis Tiao.   In this series of notebooks, we demonstrate some useful patterns and recipes for visualizing animating optimization algorithms using Matplotlib.     We shall restrict our attention to 3-dimensional problems for right now (i.e. optimizing over only 2 parameters), though what follows can be extended to higher dimensions by plotting all pairs of parameters against each other, effectively projecting the problem to 3-dimensions. The Wikipedia article on Test functions for optimization has a few functions that are useful for evaluating optimization algorithms. In particular, ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Bill Schmarzo.  Before I kick off this new blog, I’m happy to announce the release of my 3rd book” "The Art of Thinking Like A Data Scientist”. This book is designed to be a workbook – a pragmatic tool that you can use to help your organization leverage data and analytics to power your business and operational models. The book is jammed with templates, worksheets, examples and hands-on exercises, all composed to help reinforce and deploy the fundamental concepts of Thinking Like A Data Scientist.  I hope you enjoy it! The ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Kelly. Flash floods seem to be increasing in many areas. This post will show how to download local USGS flow and precipitation data and generate a 3-panel chart of flow, gage height and precipitation. There was a tragic flash flood incident in Berks County Pennsylvania on July 11-12, 2019 that caused the death of 3 people, including a pregnant woman and her young son. This newspaper article (link) provides some details on this tragic event. The timing of this flash flooding was interesting to me because the woman and her son were trapped in their car by ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - BigDataNews. Author: Sandra K. Stock trading has one of the most complex and complicated dynamics in the present day world. In today’s time, multiple algorithms and researches have been produced to understand the complexity of the stocks trading. There is an increasing effort to understand the system dynamics of stock trading to predict the emergent behavior of the stock prices. In order to predict stock prices adequately, one needs to have access to historical data of the stock prices. Mostly, you will be focussed towards one stock and it’s a predicted value. In order to ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Morgen Henderson. The first justification for investing in technology is usually to increase efficiency and profits. Whether you’re a company or a consumer, most of us look to technology to automate daily tasks and save money. Companies invest in online services to automate their email marketing. And consumers adopt LED lighting to cut down on utility bills. But technology does other things too, like help save the planet. Here are four ways technology can reduce our carbon footprint.Smart Home DevicesSmart home devices are programmable devices you can use to improve your home’s energy efficiency ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, you can create custom usage forecasts using AWS Cost Explorer to gain a line of sight into your future usage patterns. Cost Explorer’s usage forecasts use a machine learning algorithm that learns your historical usage trends and uses that information to provide a forecast of your future usage. Using these forecasts, you can better understand your expected cost trends and monitor your key usage patterns (for example, storage, data transfer, or running hours). Please note that you can generate your usage forecasts and explore your cost and usage data programmatically via the AWS Cost Explorer ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sudhakar Sannakkayala. Bank-grade security, super-fast transactions, and analytics  If you live in Asia or have ever traveled there, you’ve probably witnessed the dramatic impact that mobile technology has had on all aspects of day to day life. In Hong Kong in particular, most consumers now use a smart phone daily, presenting new opportunities for organizations to deliver content and services directly to their mobile devices. As one of the world’s largest international banks, HSBC is building new services on the cloud to enable them to organize their data more efficiently, analyze it to understand their ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Christine Alford. Active Directory Domain Controller 2019: This virtual machine comes pre-loaded with the Active Directory Domain Services role, DNS server role, remote administration tools for Active Directory, DNS, and the required PowerShell modules. ADQTM-aThingz Data Quality Tracking and Management: Improve operational efficiency, optimize cost, gain productivity, and eliminate recurring problems in your data with ADQTM’s seamless pre-built dashboards, KPIs, data models, machine learning, and cognitive features. Anqlave Data Vault: Anqlave Data Vault is a secure and scalable key management system that leverages the Intel Software Guard Extensions technology on Azure and allows users to ... Read More