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Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Roel M. Hogervorst. In this post I will show how I run an R script on a schedule, by making use of ‘serverless’ computing service on the Microsoft Cloud called Azure Functions. In short I will use a custom docker container, install required software, install required r-packages using {renv} and deploy it in the Azure cloud. I program the process in azure such that the it runs once a day without any supervision. This is not truely a tutorial, I cannot say this it the best approach, but I hope you can base your work on this ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. Andrea Luciani is a Technical Advisor for the Directorate General for Economics, Statistics and Research at the Bank of Italy, and co-author of the bimets package. Structural Equation Models (SEM), which are common in many economic modeling efforts, require fitting and simulating whole system of equations where each equation may depend on ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Bergen Schmetzer. Editor's note: This article originally appeared in Tableau Public. Iron Viz—the world’s largest data competition—was launched in 2011 in an effort to showcase the incredible talent of the Tableau Community. Since then, hundreds of data enthusiasts from around the world have participated for a chance to be crowned the Iron Viz Champion. And in 2020, for the first time ever, we created a data competition designed specifically for students—Iron Viz: Student Edition.  Iron Viz: Student Edition gives students the opportunity to develop (and show-off) their data skills, connect with the broader #DataFam, and practice ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Justin Mescher. By Justin Mescher, Vice President of Cloud and Data Center, ePlus At ePlus, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, moving organizations to the cloud and helping them get the most out of it is our business. We work with teams in verticals such as healthcare, education, government, and financial services—all areas where digital transformation has been pushed into overdrive due to COVID-19. Especially now, leaders want to give their teams more hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS). That’s why, in the summer of 2020, we sent customers from our mid-Atlantic region ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Benjamin Smith. At re:Invent 2020, AWS announced that you can package and deploy AWS Lambda functions as container images. Packaging AWS Lambda functions as container images brings some notable benefits for developers running custom runtimes, such as PHP. This blog post explains those benefits and shows how to use the new container image support for Lambda functions to build serverless PHP applications. Overview Many PHP developers are familiar with building applications as containers to create a portable artifact for easier deployment. Packaging applications as containers helps to maintain consistent PHP versions, package versions, and configurations ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Jason Timm. [This article was first published on Jason Timm, 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. Thoughts A previous post here detailed a simple function (from the uspols package) for extracting the timeline of the Trump presidency from Wikipedia. In this post, then, we turn this timeline into a Twitter bot – one that remembers daily what happened four years ago in the Trump presidency. A fairly trivial ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: jmount. [This article was first published on R – Win Vector LLC, 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. Introduction Teaching basic data science, machine learning, and statistics is great due to the questions. Students ask brilliant questions, as they see what holes are present in your presentation and scaffolding. The students are not yet conditioned to ask only what you feel is easy to answer or present. They ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; If you’re just getting into project management, you can quickly become overwhelmed by the many ways in which you can approach managing tasks. You could use scrum boards or Gantt charts, to name two examples. However, if you’re just starting out, it’s probably best to use a kanban board. (You can skip straight to our instructions by clicking this link.) Key Takeaways: Kanban boards are the simplest way to keep track of projects and tasks, making them a great way for people new to task management to learn the ropes.Thanks to its layout, a kanban ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Ram Tavva. Businesses and corporates wanted to be on the top, gain a competitive advantage. By spottings where their competitors are lagging and turning all these loopholes into opportunities. And it is sturdy without data science, big data, and business analytics. The corporates who are yet to embrace or hire experienced professionals find it hard to stand out, while those who make the most of it. And it helps to stand ahead in the competitions. And for that, business intelligence strategy is highly essential.In this blog, we learn about it. And also how to ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; For law firms and lawyers, having the best cloud storage is absolutely a must. Few other businesses move sensitive data around as quickly as law firms do, passing confidential documents to clients and receiving sensitive information from others. The best cloud storage for lawyers ensures all of those transfers are kept safe.  We’ve rounded up the five top services — as well as a single honorable mention — that deliver the best in security for lawyers and law firms. Not only will the services below keep your files safe from external threats, but they’ll also ... Read More