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Feed: Cloud Data Transformation Software | Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; Data volumes are expanding at an unprecedented rate. Enterprises are moving to the cloud. You hear this information over and over, and you definitely hear it from us. It’s very easy to get caught up in how many zettabytes of data we’ll all be producing by 2025, and how data and cloud computing affect us all on a global scale. But what do data growth and other issues that mean for how you do business right now? How does what you read track with the experiences you and other organizations ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Francisco de Abreu e Lima. [This article was first published on poissonisfish, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. What can you tell from over half a million tweets reacting to the last season of Game of Thrones? [source]Like many other fans of the show, I had great expectations for the eighth and last season of Game of Thrones (GoT) that premiered on 14 April 2019. The much anticipated ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksander Hougen; Web browsers are perhaps the most crucial piece of software in our everyday lives, with the exception of the operating system itself. Pretty much anyone with a computer uses a browser to access the worldwide web on a daily basis, so choosing one to use can be a complicated decision. In this article, we’ll tell you which are the best web browsers. Vivaldi is the clear winner of this comparison. Despite being packed with features, it has excellent performance. The customization options are almost endless, and since it’s based on Chromium, the Vivaldi browser can ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jennifer Bourn; Imagine that you’re a doctor finally pursuing the dream of starting your own medical practice and you need a website.You do some research online and find two local web designers.One is generalist who sells “results-driven websites” and the other is a designer who has a business niche in “websites for health and wellness professionals.”Which option is more likely to win your business?The second! The second option poses less risk and sounds more appealing because the message is tailored to you, a health and wellness professional. Working with someone who specializes in your type of ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Lisa Allred. This is a popular topic and certainly something that most parents have to grapple with eventually. Often times I hear the discussion framed as “to monitor or not to monitor” and I want to encourage you to think about your child’s safety online in much broader ways. Monitoring is one of many strategies that you can use to keep your child safe. To use an analogy about bikes, monitoring is like driving behind your child in the car when they go on a long bike ride with their friends. It may be a good ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Rehan Ijaz. The digital marketing profession is undergoing a tremendous shift. Machine learning is altering the dynamic between advertisers and customers in countless ways. A study by Gartner found that 30% of companies will use AI in their sales by the end of next year.A stunning 97% of marketing managers believe that machine learning is the future of their profession. Social media marketing, PPC advertising, native ads, and media buying are just some of the disciplines that are evolving with machine learning.A number of industry influencers have discussed the ways machine learning is changing ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Learning Machines. The two most disruptive political events of the last few years are undoubtedly the Brexit referendum to leave the European Union and the election of Donald Trump. Both are commonly associated with the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica and a technique known as Microtargeting. If you want to understand the data science behind the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data scandal and Microtargeting (i.e. LASSO regression) by building a toy example in R read on! The following post is mainly based on the excellent case study “Cambridge Analytica: Rise and Fall” by my colleague Professor Oliver Gassmann (who ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; Hello and welcome to the latest State of the Cloud, Cloudwards.net’s monthly column where we go over the tech news from the past 30 days in hopes of finding method to the madness. September was all about Facebook (as per usual), though Google and a few other big players will be making an appearance. Subscribe to our monthly newsletter for updates on reviews, articles and investigations. The biggest news, however, is reserved for us. During the past five months, the Cloudwards.net team has been working hard on putting together a map of internet censorship around ... 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: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Sandra Moraes. Every industry in the world is moving towards data-driven decision making, then one of the most popular and highest grossing industries definitely has employed analytics and d... We are talking about the media and entertainment (M&E) industry. If you are associated with the industry in any way and your question is how to use analytics to maximize the potential in this industry across all domains, you are at the right place! The increased technological and digital revolutions have caused a data-enabled revolution within the media and entertainment industry. You can see a perfect convergence ... Read More