Tag: reporting

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Valeriy Kravchuk; Today I am going to provide some details on the last item in my list of problems with Oracle's way of MySQL server development, maintenance of MySQL Manual. I stated that: "MySQL Manual still have many details missing and is not fixed fast enough. Moreover, it is not open source..." Let me explain the above:MySQL Reference Manual is not open source. It used to be built from DocBook XML sources. Probably that's still the case. But you can not find the source code in open repositories (please, correct me if I am wrong, I ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Since the launch of the AWS Canada (Central) Region in December 2016, many organizations have begun using AWS to transform Canadian healthcare infrastructure and services. The entities use AWS to help lower the cost of IT services, provide more focus on patients, improve data security and compliance, improve healthcare clinician and staff productivity, and begin resolving major health problems impacting the general population.From data center migration to machine learning, healthcare authorities, hospitals, and service providers have been focused on the following key trends: Data residency within Canada: Customers can run their ... Read More

Feed: Blog. Author: Scott Stone; We are pleased to announce the general availability of SQL Diagnostic Manager 10.3. Existing users may upgrade to this version through the Idera Customer Portal. New users may download the trial version from the Idera Website. This release includes the following features:This release adds the following features: Minimize Privilege Requirements for monitoring.  – Enable monitoring of SQL Server with reduced privileges with scripts provided for recommended privilege level and minimum privilege level. Operator Security Role – Additional security role within SQL Diagnostic Manager targeted to the needs of contracted off-hours DBAs while restricting unneeded configuration access. Grooming ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Ashish Thapliyal. Fast Interactive BI, data security and end user adoption are three critical challenges for successful big data analytics implementations. Without right architecture and tools, many big data and analytics projects fail to catch on with common BI users and enterprise security architects. In this blog we will discuss architectural approaches that will help you architect big data solution for fast interactive queries, simplified security model and improved user adoption with BI users. Traditional approach to fast interactive BI Deep analytical queries processed on Hadoop systems have traditionally been slow. MapReduce jobs or hive ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Matt.0. Great post! I wanted to mention that although many previous studies have used the area under receiver operating characteristic curve (auROC) statistic to benchmark the precision, it misleads evaluators when the test data is (highly) imbalanced see: PLOS One, 10(3):e0118432, 2015 & bioRxiv, 2017 doi: 10.1101/142760 In my field (bioinformatics), ENCODE’s DREAM-Challenge recommends reporting both auROC, which assess false negative predictions and the area under precision-recall curve (auPR), which also assesses false positives (see: ENCODE-DREAM in vivo Transcription Factor Binding Site Prediction Challenge. https://synapse.org/encode, 2017. Accessed: 2018–01–31) Related R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Rohit Jain. Compass (source: Pixabay) Check out the "Data Engineering & Architecture" sessions at the Strata Data Conference in New York, September 11-13, 2018. Technologies for streaming, storing, and querying big data have matured to the point where the computer industry can usefully establish standards. As in other areas of engineering, standardization allows practitioners to port their learnings across a multitude of solutions, and to more easily employ different technologies together; standardization also allows solution providers to take advantage of sub-components to expeditiously build more compelling solutions with broader applicability. Unfortunately, little has been ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Today, we’re pleased to announce the August update of Power BI Report Server!  This release contains several new features, including some highly anticipated items like report theming, conditional formatting improvements, and report page tooltips. Read on to learn more about these and many other new capabilities we’ve added in this release.  Please note: For those users who are upgrading their report server from a previous version, we recommend clearing your browser cache before viewing your reports. Reporting Analytics Modeling We are very excited to announce we’ve added report theming to ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Oliver Schabenberger. What if? Two simple words. A bold question. Driver of change and progress. Fuel for innovation. “What if?” perfectly captures core values of the SAS culture: to be curious, forward-thinking and to challenge assumptions in solving problems. Today, I would like to introduce to you the people behind four of our new technologies and share how their curiosity is at the heart of progress and how it transforms lives through analytics. Saving lives  I remember it like it was yesterday. One day last year, I received an email message that informed me that Jared ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. Human behavior and interaction have always been a topic of discussion and research. It’s fascinating what data analysis can do. And how we can improve the way things work around us based on the data we collect. And with the big data industry projected to be worth nearly 28 million USD in the next two years, it’s about time that the education sector jumped into the bandwagon. Because the bare truth of the matter is that the benefits of gathering and analyzing data are many. And the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Christine Alford. 2-DAY Azure Cloud Transformation Workshop & POC: Microsoft Azure is a powerful platform, but getting started can be daunting. Begin your Azure cloud journey with Steeves and Associates to gain the tech know-how to move forward with Azure. Advanced Analytics and AI: 1/2 Day Briefing: During this half-day workshop, Dimensional Strategies Inc. will provide powerful insights on machine learning and how industries can extract value from their data by leveraging Microsoft's machine learning tools. AI Envisioning: 1-Day Workshop: Guided by T4G experts, this collaborative envisioning engagement is designed to harness the power of ... Read More