Tag: Technical

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: schochastics. [This article was first published on schochastics, 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. This post introduces the R package signnet, available on CRAN,which implements several methods to analyze signed networks. Signed networks include two types of relations, positive and negative ones (say friends and enemies).They are fundamentally different from traditional networks and require a very different set oftools to analyse them. This post covers everything from data ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor’s note: The content in this post has been updated to reflect syntax changes made in the 0.5.0 release on 10 July 2018.We are pleased to introduce the Puppet dsc_lite module, a new approach for declaring Desired State Configuration (DSC) syntax in Puppet manifests — an alternative to our original Puppet dsc module. Depending on what you want to achieve, one module might be better suited to you than the other. Below we share some ideas to help you decide which approach is best for you. Why try the new dsc_lite moduleThe dsc_lite ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; International Women’s Day is a day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. ​In support of this year's global International Women's Day, Press for Progress, we continue to anchor our diversity, equity and inclusion efforts around improvements in recruitment, retention and career growth of women at Puppet. We strive for progress every day and dedicate today's blog post to celebrate the achievements and successes of some of our incredible women employees:Padmashree KonetiSenior director of product operations Portland @pkonetiWhat does it mean to you to be a woman in tech?Own ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Mark Needham. Hi graph gang, In this week’s video from the NODES 2019 conference, Brandon Campbell and Kelson Smith use Neo4j to solve a ‘who done it?’ problem. Jennifer Reif gives us a walk through on multiple databases, Hongping Liang graphs the Personal Genomre Project, and Adam Cowley explains how and when to use sharding. And finally, I created a QuickGraph of the Australian Open tennis tournament. Mark, Karin, and the Developer Relations team This week’s featured Neo4j Community member is Adam Cowley, Senior Professional Services Consultant at Neo4j. Adam Cowley – This Week’s ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Amanda Lapid. Regardless of whether you support teams in digital marketing, marketing automation, or another marketing function, your work either directly or indirectly drives prospects and customers to a landing page to take action. Making this successful depends on more than just the experience on the single page—a result of multiple touchpoints and activities before page visitors arrive—but what a visitor does when they get to the landing page is telling. As you are well aware, landing pages offer the opportunity to capture numerous data points that fill out the picture of a visitor, helping marketers ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Gary Stevens. Here’s a little known secret: many people are afraid to switch their web hosts. However, it is important to be aware of the importance of updating your web host and choosing an award-winning, quality web host and the difference it makes for your site, some offer web analytics and others provide the speed you need.Why?Updating web hosts can seem like an intimidating process, as it’s easy to believe that it requires one to possess at least some degree of technical knowledge.But in reality, the vast majority of web host providers are glad ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. There are three different types of data models: conceptual, logical and physical, and each has a specific purpose.Conceptual Data Models: High-level, static business structures and concepts Logical Data Models: Entity types, data attributes and relationships between entities Physical Data Models: The internal schema database design An organization’s approach to data modeling will be influenced by its particular needs and the goals it is trying to reach, as explained here: But with the different types of data models, an organization benefits from using all three, depending on the information it wishes ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. Photo by Emre Gencer on Unsplash Providing equitable learning experiences beyond the classroom is top of mind for schools and districts around the world. With the cloud, educational institutions are increasingly able to address this, gaining the ability to offer students anywhere, anytime access to learning. Among these advancements, Amazon AppStream 2.0 is now integrated with the Global Grid for Learning (GG4L) School Passport and available in the GG4L Catalyst Catalog. With the Amazon AppStream 2.0 integration, students can access the software applications they need for class through any ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; 2017 was an exciting year for many people managing infrastructure and delivering software — from dealing with WannaCry to experimenting with or investing more in cloud or container infrastructure, and adopting DevOps practices.And it was a great year for Puppet and organizations using Puppet, thanks in no small part to many of you.But what will 2018 hold? Here are our predictions"In 2018 I think we are going to see more distributed systems and applications, leading us to smaller units of applications. Container workloads will be the norm in production with Kubernetes reaching the ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Meltdown and Spectre are related bugs in computer processors which can lead to disastrous security breaches and data leakage. Searching for these keywords will reveal an overwhelming number of explanations at different technical levels, so I will not attempt to offer yet another one here. If you are interested in the original — technical — article on the subject, I recommend this article by Google.In a recent blog post, James Pogran described how to leverage Puppet Bolt and Puppet Tasks to detect Spectre / Meltdown vulnerabilities on Windows. With the new meltdown module ... Read More