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Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: VC Martins. The messiest job of the 21st century  The interview process is likely the most daunting task a data scientist will face in their career. The pressure and competition to land a data science job are intense. On top of this, the hype around data science has resulted in mass confusion around the data science interview process.  Data scientists have been the darling of the tech industry for about a decade now. In 2012, Harvard Business Review crowned the data scientist title the “sexiest job of the 21st century,”  setting ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R | databentobox. [This article was first published on R | databentobox, 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. Table of Contents Introduction If you search for R Shiny apps deployment and landed on this post, chances are you are like me – a data scientist who just want to build a decent app to host a dashboard or a prediction model without going down to the rabbit ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Sandra Pattison; If you’re on your way to the Middle Kingdom, you know you need a top-notch VPN to bypass the Chinese government’s internet censor. ExpressVPN is our best VPN, but you still need to make sure it’s working in China. Thankfully, the VPN is, and this guide will tell you how to use ExpressVPN in China. The Great Firewall is one of the worst forms of censorship around the world (though it doesn’t apply to Hong Kong; well, not yet). The internet is tightly controlled and anything that the Chinese government doesn’t like can be blocked, ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Ilya Kipnis. So, first off: I just finished a Thinkful data science in python bootcamp program that was supposed to take six months, in about four months. All of my capstone projects I applied to volatility trading; long story short, none of the ML techniques worked, and the more complex the technique I tried, the worse it performed. Is there a place for data science in Python in the world? Of course. Some firms swear by it. However, R currently has many more libraries developed specifically for quantitative finance, such as PerformanceAnalytics, quantstrat, PortfolioAnalytics, and so ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Usman Hayat. The healthcare industry has started using advanced technologies such as electronic health records to store their patients’ data, be it their personal information, billing information, and so on. These technological advancements have reduced the workload of medical or healthcare organizations to a certain degree.On the contrary, the use of advanced medical devices and other tools has increased the chances of data breaches and cyber attacks.In this situation, when the whole world faces severe consequences of a coronavirus outbreak, the importance of cybersecurity in healthcare grows to another extent.However, it is better to ... Read More

Feed: CronJ. Author: Nidhi Swadi; Helping you in making a wise decisionA trendy debate in the current era is on Software Company vs Freelancer.John is a founder of the new start-up in the food industry. He wants a mobile application to help him out. Having limited resources, he is looking for an android app developer. He is comparing Software Company vs Freelancer.Are you also running a start-up company? If you are confused about hiring a freelancer or a software company, let me help you.Here is another instance.Jakephics is a small event planning company. It is experienced for two years in ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: n Posts on A stats websiten n. This post will look at how to fit an XGBoost model using the tidymodels framework rather than using the XGBoost package directly. Tidymodels is a collection of packages that aims to standardise model creation by providing commands that can be applied across different R packages. For example, once the code is written to fit an XGBoost model a large amount of the same code could be used to fit a C5.0 algorithm. I will look at a dataset which I have analysed before so I know what to expect ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Rob Sutter. Modern software applications consist of multiple components distributed across many services. AWS Step Functions lets you define serverless workflows to orchestrate these services so you can build and update your apps quickly. Step Functions manages its own state and retries when there are errors, enabling you to focus on your business logic. Now, with support for Step Functions in the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM), you can easily create, deploy, and maintain your serverless applications.The most recent AWS SAM update introduces the AWS::Serverless::StateMachine component that simplifies the definition of workflows in your ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. With IBM announcing Netezza reaching end-of-life, you’re faced with the prospect of having to migrate your data and workloads off your analytics appliance. For some, this presents an opportunity to transition to the cloud.Enter Amazon Redshift. Amazon Redshift is a cloud-native data warehouse platform built to handle workloads at scale, and it shares key similarities with Netezza that make it an excellent candidate to replace your on-premises appliance. You can migrate your data and applications to Amazon Redshift in less time and with fewer changes than migrating to other analytics platforms. For developers, this means ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; Here in Percona’s Training department, we like to think that we instruct our learners on the best practices for all things MySQL-related. In addition to performance tuning, query optimization, and replication configurations, another important topic is backups. Let’s dive in and discuss some of the basics and best practices around backups for MySQL.Logical MySQL BackupsIn MySQL, it is possible to take backups in two different forms. The first form, logical, is the most universal. Essentially, you create all of the necessary INSERT statements to repopulate your table data. The two most popular tools ... Read More