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Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Dan Matthews. Historically, there has been a significant separation between organizations and the stakeholders who support them. While consumers think of themselves as human individuals, brands are sometimes viewed as faceless, corporate machines. However we’re discovering that relating to stakeholders on an individual level is vital to how successful a brand will be, especially in the digital age.This relationship can only be built by minimizing the gap between people and the organizations they support. Brands and institutions can best do this by getting to know their stakeholders through data. The potential for this is ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL 12 can be considered revolutionary considering the performance boost we observe with partitioning enhancements, planner improvements, several SQL features, Indexing improvements, etc. You may see some of such features discussed in future blog posts. But, let me start this blog with something interesting. You might have already seen some news that there is no recovery.conf file in standby anymore and that the replication setup (streaming replication) has slightly changed in PostgreSQL 12. We have earlier blogged about the steps involved in setting up a simple Streaming Replication until PostgreSQL 11 and also about using replication slots ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud that offers fast query performance using the same SQL-based tools and business intelligence applications that you use today. Many customers also like to use Amazon Redshift as an extract, transform, and load (ETL) engine to use existing SQL developer skillsets, to quickly migrate pre-existing SQL-based ETL scripts, and—because Amazon Redshift is fully ACID-compliant—as an efficient mechanism to merge change data from source data systems.In this post, I show how to use AWS Step Functions and AWS Glue Python Shell to orchestrate tasks ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Sandy Bridgwater. Because of the advancements in machine-learning based image recognition and AI-driven optimization, the influence of big data in the context of computer science is given a lot of attention. But today, we will explore the effect of big data on one of the most exciting fields of science. Astroparticle physics has been the arena for 5 Nobel Prize winners in the last 20 years, due in no small part, according to Dr.Bradley Kavanagh, to developments in big data. Bradley Kavanagh is an astroparticle physicist working at the University of ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Jenn Mann. SAS has always focused on the employee experience, and it’s been a part of our founder’s philosophy since day one. It may sound cliché today, but when we started this trend over 40 years ago, others noticed. Jim Goodnight, our founder and CEO has always said, “If you treat people as if they make a difference, they will make a difference.” Earlier this month, SAS once again ranked in the top 10 on  the World's Best Workplaces list showing that this philosophy is still true today. We empower our people and provide a world-class ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. When GreenGo launched in 2016, the Hungarian startup sought to offer an alternative mode of transport. The first electric car-sharing service in its area, GreenGo offers services to those who regularly travel around Hungary’s bustling capital, Budapest, but are not keen on maintaining a car or paying for parking in the city. Cars can be booked through the mobile application before pickup, and once the user has stopped using the car, the fee for usage is automatically withdrawn from the user’s bank account. In the years since GreenGo first took to the streets, the company’s ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Packt Publishing. Did you ever wonder why linear regression plays an important role in statistics and machine learning? It is witnessed that linear regression is one of the most commonly and well-understood algorithms.  Regression is a statistical method for calculating relationships among variables. It is one of the most popular and simplest regression techniques and is a very good way to understand your data. Note that regression techniques are not 100% accurate even if you use higher-order (nonlinear) polynomials. The key with regression, as with most machine learning techniques, is to find a good-enough ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. As announced in February, we now have an online book containing all things related to rOpenSci software review. Our goal is to update it approximately quarterly – it’s time to present the third version. You can read the changelog or this blog post to find out what’s new in our dev guide 0.3.0! Updates to our policies and guidance Scope We’ve introduced an important change for anyone thinking of submitting a package. We ask authors to select a category in our Aims and Scope under which to submit. We found ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Charles Schaefer, Michael Hetrick. Not every technology today promises to drive vast change across the enterprise. Think about solutions like phone and conferencing systems—while critically important for your business, they’re not driving digital transform for your organization. So, how do you identify the right kinds of technology solutions that necessitate a deeper evaluation? A few places to start: Team up with your lines of business — Depending on who this solution is for, you can rely on some of their specialized knowledge to help during the evaluation process. If you’re buying marketing automation software, ask the ... Read More

Feed: Cloud Data Transformation Software | Matillion. Author: Daniel Shah, Consulting Partner Director; Daniel Shah, Consulting Partner Director I remember the day we welcomed our first partner to the Matillion family nearly three years ago.  Since then, our Consulting and System Integrator Partner ecosystem has grown by leaps and bounds, to over 200 Partners today. These partners are industry experts and instrumental in providing advice, services and implementation for customers using Matillion to deliver an end to end data transformation solution. That’s why I am extremely excited about the launch of the Matillion Partner Network. Serving Matillion partners around the ... Read More