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Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: William Vorhies. Summary:  Here’ a proposal for real ‘zero touch’, ‘set-em-and-forget-em’ machine learning from the researchers at Amazon.  If you have an environment as fast changing as e-retail and a huge number of models matching buyers and products you could achieve real cost savings and revenue increases by making the refresh cycle faster and more accurate with automation.  This capability likely will be coming soon to your favorite AML platform. Is there a future in which we can really ‘set-em-and-forget-em’ machine learning?  So far Automated Machine Learning (AML) is delivering on ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Mac Slocum. Each month, Mike Loukides creates a list of emergent trends from the business and technology worlds. Some items are personal observations or summaries of interesting conversations. Most items on the list have links to media sources—some original sources, some from other reporting, whichever is more informative. Open source and activism trends A new kind of developer activism is emerging: “open source” licenses that restrict how the software can be used—i.e., not by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or the military. By archiving two of his projects on GitHub because Chef has a contract with ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle has been named a Leader in Gartner’s 2019 “Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions” report for the third consecutive year. Out of 15 companies evaluated, Oracle is positioned as a Leader based on its ability to execute and completeness of vision. A complimentary copy of the report is available here. According to the report, “Leaders provide mature offerings that meet market demand and have demonstrated the vision necessary to sustain their market position as requirements evolve. Leaders have also demonstrated execution success by having revenue commensurate with other high-performing leaders in ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Floyd Smith. SSIMWAVE customers – from film producers to network engineers to media business executives – work to some of the highest standards in the world. They demand to work with the best. SSIMWAVE also works at that level, as the company’s 2015 Emmy award for engineering achievement demonstrates. They also ask the same high standards of their technology vendors/partners. For SSIMWAVE’s rather comprehensive analytics needs, only one database makes the grade: MemSQL. SSIMWAVE has unique technology and unique analytics needs. SSIMWAVE mimics the human visual system, enabling the software to quantify the quality of video ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Floyd Smith. Medaxion has found a solution to the analytics problems that plague companies across the health care sector and beyond. John Toups, CTO of Medaxion, puts it plainly. “By combining the ease of presentation and abstraction of Looker for analytics, with the technical prowess of MemSQL as the database behind Looker, we now have simply the best analytics in healthcare.” Medaxion has changed the working lives of anesthesiologists, its core customers. These highly skilled professionals must deliver absolutely critical medical care, day after day, while also meeting demanding business requirements. These men and women, who ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Mike Gilliland. Foresight Editor-in-Chief Len Tashman's Preview of the Fall 2019 Issue This 55th issue of Foresight opens with an article from Phillip Yelland, Zeynep Erkin Baz, and David Serafini of  the Data Science/AI team at Target: Forecasting at Scale: The Architecture of a Modern Retail Forecasting System. The challenge of scale at Target is the requirement for nearly one billion forecasts per week, demanding a careful balancing act between statistical modeling, software engineering, and business practice. The team also reports the need to weigh considerations of forecast accuracy against model explainability. We found that while ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; Starting with the experimental release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0, we have made changes to the SST process to make the process more robust and easier to use.mysqldump and rsync are no longer supported SST methods.Support for mysqldump was deprecated starting with PXC 5.7 and has now been completely removed.MySQL 8.0 introduced a new Redo Log format that limited the use of rsync while upgrading from PXC 5.7 to 8.0. In addition, the new Galera-4 also introduced changes that further limits the use of rsync.The only supported SST method is xtrabackup-v2.A separate Percona ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Chris Lema; Being able to observe and interact with customers as they shop was always an advantage that traditional brick-and-mortar retailers had over online retail. Until now.With eCommerce analytics and reporting, online retailers can learn just as much from every customer interaction as physical retailers — maybe more. An eCommerce analytics tool can do even more than just show data. These services are essential for tracking the performance of your online store over time.So we’re going to tell you how (and why) to use Google Analytics eCommerce reporting.Introduction to Google Analytics for eCommerceAn eCommerce analytics tool ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. The Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance (CGPS) is based at the Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge and The Big Data Institute, University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Much of its work involves collaborating with laboratories around the world to enhance genomic surveillance by using big data, engineering, training, and genomic capacity building. Ultimately, the Centre hopes to enable the linking and real-time interpretation of data globally to track pathogens and antimicrobial resistance at an affordable rate. Typically, spikes in cost for research are a common challenge for ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. 1. Overview In this article we will use GDB debugger to trace the internals of Postgres and observe how an input query passes through several levels of transformation (Parser -> Analyzer -> Rewriter -> Planner -> Executor) and eventually produces an output. This article is based on PG12 running on Ubuntu 18.04, and we will use a simple SELECT query with ORDER BY , GROUP BY, and LIMIT keywords to go through the entire query processing tracing. 2. Preparation GDB debugger is required to be installed to trace the internals of Postgres. Most recent distribution of Linux ... Read More