Tag: Project

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Michael Lin. Businesses today compete in a hyper-competitive landscape. Analyzing the past for knowledge in the present is no longer good enough – enterprises must have an eye into the future. One way is to extrapolate predictive insights out of enterprise data. Through analyzing data, retailers can design features and products appealed to a broader or concentrated audience based on trends and purchase patterns, manufacturers can predict maintenance schedule of machinery to avoid production downtime, security operations can catch a hacker before a malicious attempt even takes place, and the use cases go on ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Phil de Valence. By Austin Tilman, Consultant at IpponBy Kevin Wrigglesworth, Senior Consultant at IpponBy Dennis Sharpe, Chief Technology Officer at IpponOur team at Ippon Technologies, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Consulting Partner, has successfully re-written a large mainframe third-party software package to Java Angular Spring Boot microservices. The package supported 130 TPS and 1,800 MIPS, catered to over 5,000 users, and housed more than 5 TB of business-critical data. Our target architecture relies on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Java microservices, and we helped the customer define the approach and architecture, and then developed the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Community Events. Author: . COST: FREELEVEL: BeginnerShowcasing the versatility of Microsoft Azure via a range of demonstrations, discussions and practical, applicable workshops, join us to discover how Azure can be implemented immediately and work seamlessly with your existing tools and infrastructure. Think big, then delve deeper Azure Discovery Days are designed to educate users with no prior experience on how they can get value from using Azure. It does not matter if you are an IT Pro, Developer, or Project Manager, if you plan to use the cloud then the Discovery Days can help you get the ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Brian Lee Yung Rowe. I’m pleased to share Part I of my new book “Introduction to Reproducible Science in R“. The purpose of this book is to approach model development and software development holistically to help make science and research more reproducible. The need for such a book arose from observing some of the challenges that I’ve seen teaching graduate courses in natural language processing and machine learning, as well as training my own staff to become effective data scientists. While quantitative reasoning and mathematics are important, often I found that the primary obstacle to good data ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. PASS Summit v.20 PASS Summit is the largest conference for technical professionals who leverage the Microsoft Data Platform. The 20th summit, which took place in Seattle last week, played host to a number of Azure-related announcements. Harness the future with the ultimate hybrid platform for data and AI Rohan Kumar, Corporate Vice President, Azure Data, gave the Day 1 keynote at PASS Summit v.20. In this post, he provides an overview of his keynote, including how hybrid connects all your data and enables comprehensive AI and analytics. Microsoft’s consistent data platform across on-premises ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: tiffany jernigan (@tiffanyfayj). Post by Vikrama Adethyaa, Solution Architect and Tiffany Jernigan, Developer Advocate Containers are an increasingly important way for you to package and deploy your applications. They are lightweight and provide a consistent, portable software environment for applications to easily run and scale anywhere. A container is launched from a container image, an executable package that includes everything needed to run an application: the application code, configuration files, runtime (for example, Java, Python, etc.), libraries, and environment variables. A container image is built up from a series of layers. For a Docker image, each ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: business-science.io - Articles. There are only two more weeks in the course! This week will extend what you learned from the Expected Value by performing an optimization and sensitivity analysis. The optimization and sensitivity analysis will teach you how to identify the maximum business savings for the overtime problem and see how additional factors change the amount of savings: Threshold Optimization – A method used to maximize expected saving via iteratively calculating savings at various thresholds Sensitivity Analysis – A method used to investigate how sensitive the expected savings is to various parameter values that were created ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Matt.0. “Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport” — Robert Wieder As much as I like Medium for it’s ability to reach an audience I prefer the customization afforded by github.io. If you want to see a far-fancier version of this post please visit this page instead. Project Inspiration You may, or may not, have heard of the term gamification but chances are you’ve experienced it. Gamification is the application of game-design elements, and game principles, in non-game contexts. The ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Muhammad Rizwan. After detecting a face in an image, as seen in the earlier post ‘Face Detection Application’, we will perform face landmark estimation. Face landmark estimation means identifying key points on a face, such as the tip of the nose and the center of the eye. There are different estimation models based on the number of face landmark points. The 5 points model is the simplest one which only detects the edges of each eye and the bottom of the nose. 5 points face landmark model Other models include 68 points ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Sameer Kumar Vasanthapuram. By Sameer Kumar Vasanthapuram, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Pawan Shankar, Sr Product Marketing Manager at Dome9When Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers turn on Amazon GuardDuty and start seeing security findings roll in, you may not immediately understand how a resource was affected, the attack vector, and how you can prevent it from happening again by taking the appropriate remediations. Dome9 Security’s integration with GuardDuty brings to the table a way of surfacing these findings, providing context and creating automated remediations. Bringing together the capabilities of Dome9 and GuardDuty, users that ... Read More