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Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor's note: Arik Hessendahl is a guest blogger covering PuppetConf.If you know anything about the ways that IT operations have evolved over the last decade or so, then you intuitively understand how automation can be beneficial. I’m no technical expert, but I’ve spent a fair amount of time over the last 20 years talking to them, so I get it, at least in broad brushstrokes. But there’s broad brushstrokes, and then there’s details. During my two days at PuppetConf 2017, I learned a lot about how companies as varied as Nike and Porsche ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor's note: Arik Hessendahl is a guest blogger covering PuppetConf.Some things about the way that companies run are old-school for a reason. Take corporate boards. When you’re invited to sit as a director of a company’s board, it’s usually because you’ve earned some admiration for your expertise and experience in a given field. It used to be that large companies wanted well-known names on their boards, but since the Sarbanes-Oxley law of 2002, it has become a much more tightly regulated and scrutinized affair. It’s also a lot of work. Directors must work ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R on Coding Club UC3M. [This article was first published on R on Coding Club UC3M, 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. by María Medina Pérez According to CIS’ barometer, political corruption is the second biggest concern in Spain, only behind unemployment, and has been in this position since 2013, as we see Spanish news talking about open trials and new investigations on a regular basis. The European ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R on Just be-cause. [This article was first published on R on Just be-cause, 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. We’ve seen on a previous post that one of the main differences between classic ML and Causal Inference is the additional step of using the correct adjustment set for the predictor features. In order to find the correct adjustment set we need a DAG that represents the relationships ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Canaries are configurable scripts that follow the same routes and perform the same actions as a customer. This enables the outside-in view of your customers’ experiences, and your service’s availability from their point of view. You can run a canary once, or on a regular schedule. Scheduled canaries can run 24 hours a day, as often as once per minute. The canaries check the availability and latency of your endpoints, and can store load time data and screenshots of the UI. The canaries can also be customized to check for availability, latency, transactions, broken or dead links, ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Severalnines; April 2018 is not just a date for the MySQL world. MySQL 8.0 was released there, and more than 1 year after, it’s probably time to consider migrating to this new version. MySQL 8.0 has important performance and security improvements, and, as in all migration to a new database version, there are several things to take into account before going into production to avoid hard issues like data loss, excessive downtime, or even a rollback during the migration task. In this blog, we’ll mention some of the new MySQL 8.0 features, some deprecated stuff, and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Meenoo Rami. In October 2018, we announced the Microsoft Higher Education Accelerator, enabling ISVs and other solution providers to quickly build industry vertical solutions tailored for higher education. Since then, we have updated the accelerator with new scenarios to help institutions transform how they engage with students and their constituents and improve student outcomes.Our latest version, now generally available, extends the Common Data Model scenarios to include new entities, sample apps, and analytics for business partner management and student accomplishments. The accelerator also includes entities around internships, scholarships, grants, and more.About the industry acceleratorOne ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Joshua Milligan. All of the Nest thermostat data I capture via the script is in a Google Sheet and I can directly connect to it with Tableau Prep (versions 2019.4 and newer)! The Tableau Flow itself looks a bit complex, but it’s mostly just the same steps duplicated for each measure: Each piece, like Inside Temps is primarily splitting the really, really long string: then pivoting so that all those measurements and times are together in a single column: And then doing some additional splitting out of the measure from the timestamp, parsing the date and ... Read More

Feed: Cambridge Intelligence. Author: Andrew Disney. Colors can make or break your data visualization.A carefully selected color palette helps you to harness the pre-attentive processing powers of the human brain, and makes insight clearer and easier to find. A badly chosen color palette obscures the information your users need to understand, and makes your data visualization less effective and harder to use.This blog post explores some data visualization examples, basic color theory, and explains how it can help you design visualizations that look good, and make data more compelling.Let’s start with some examples to show you the importance of choosing ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Lora D. Delwiche. One great thing about being a SAS programmer is that you never run out of new things to learn. SAS often gives us a variety of methods to produce the same result. One good example of this is the DATA step and PROC SQL, both of which manipulate data. The DATA step is extremely powerful and flexible, but PROC SQL has its advantages too. Until recently, my knowledge of PROC SQL was pretty limited. But for the sixth edition of The Little SAS Book, we decided to move the discussion of PROC SQL ... Read More