Tag: Technical

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Juan Koss. The term "big data" comes up frequently in articles and office discussions, but what does it really mean to utilize big data? Big data: it’s one of those buzzwords you can’t seem to get away from. Though you might have an idea of what it means, there’s likely plenty you don’t know the ins and outs of what it takes to really harness the power of big data. We sat down with Robert Swisher, Chief Technology Officer at Business.com, to get a better idea of what the big deal ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Charles Richards. The idea of the BlockChain is regularly made reference to along the point of digital money, in spite of the fact that it can locate a lot more extensive application. Why? Truth be told, a BlockChain is a sure conveyed database that connects with a dynamic rundown of requested records. The primary thought is that current records can't be changed and new ones require a particular check to be acknowledged. The most mainstream BlockChain executions were made for Bitcoin and Ethereum. The BlockChain is firmly identified with e-cash exchanges ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: John E Sukup. Who wants to hear a story about data?! ...(silence)... Understandably, not a lot of people would raise their hands to an intro like that. For me, however, data has sculpted my career path and led to many exciting opportunities over the life of my profession. It hasn't been easy -- I think any entrepreneur would tell you the same and surely the content and media attention around self-starting individuals would concur. But I'm not here to tell you about the hardships of starting a business. Rather, I'm here ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Kathleen Hillenbrand, Service Delivery Program Manager at AWSThe AWS Service Delivery Program identifies and endorses AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners with validated customer experience and a deep understanding of specific AWS services, such as Amazon EC2 for Windows, AWS IoT Core, and Amazon Kinesis. Please join us in congratulating these top 14 APN Partners on achieving new AWS Service Delivery Program designations in November. Each follows AWS best practices and has proven success delivering AWS services to end customers. To receive an AWS Service Delivery designation, APN Partners must undergo service-specific ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Dave Provenza. We are happy to announce the launch of Redis Enterprise 5.4, the latest version of our high performance, in-memory database platform. The new version contains the following major enhancements: Redis 5.0 GA — Redis Streams Redis Streams, introduced  in Redis 5.0, is one of the most popular products today in the Redis ecosystem. Redis Streams is a new data type that models a log data structure in-memory and implements additional powerful operations, such as: A set of blocking operations allowing consumers to wait for new data added to a stream by producers. A concept ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. By Axel Morgner, Co-Founder and CEO, Structr | December 14, 2018Reading time: 5 minutes The field of graph technology has developed rapidly in recent years. From the beginnings of the Neo4j graph database – released almost nine years ago in version 1.0 – up to current the latest version (and also the developments of other manufacturers, though Neo4j has not lost its leading position in the market since then), the area of graph databases and graph-based systems has established itself as an independent technology sector that’s growing at an above-average rate.Evidence for ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Chris Lema; Imagine this scenario: You’re shopping for wireless headphones on an eCommerce website. You have some general questions. So, you head over to the site’s FAQ where you find out that algorithms called audio codecs help determine sound quality in headphones.There’s a link in the FAQ to one of the site’s blog articles where you can “learn more.” You read the article. Now, you’re feeling informed and confident. Below the article is an ad for a pair of wireless headphones that supports the codecs you just described. You click and buy.The scenario represents a common ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Kitty Chou. Starting with the Tableau 2019.2 release in the second quarter of 2019, we are updating our minimum machine specifications to deploy a Tableau Server trial. For Tableau Server versions 2019.2 and beyond, you will need a 4-core processor and 16 GB of RAM. This is to support a better experience with enterprise features that we’ve added in recent releases. We’ve outlined these changes below. Note that our production Tableau Server min spec remains unchanged. Current Trial Min Spec Updated Trial Min Spec Production Min Spec (unchanged) Machine Cores (Physical or Virtual) 2 cores 4 ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Johanna Knapp. On November 15. & 16. 2018, Telekom hosted a women-only hackathon at the hub:raum in Berlin. The event was supported by Udacity, IBM, T-Labs, hub:raum, Telekom Open Spaces and Tableau. Initiated by Kenza Ait Si Abbou Lyadini and organized by 20+ members of the Women@Telekom network, the event welcomed 91 attendants out of a much larger number of applicants—all working or studying in the fields of AI, machine learning, data science, and programming. Participants worked in teams of six, each with the support of a mentor. The groups had the choice to work on ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: David Harris. In 1963 Benoit Mandelbrot published an article called “The Variation of Certain Speculative Prices.”  It is a response to the forming theory that would become Modern Portfolio Theory.  Oversimplified, Mandelbrot’s argument could be summarized as “if this is your theory, then this cannot be your data, and this is your data.”  This issue has haunted models such as Black-Scholes, the CAPM, the APT and Fama-French.  None of them have survived validation tests.  Indeed, a good argument can be made that the test by Fama and MacBeth in 1973 should ... Read More