Tag: Technical

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Lauren Small. By Peter Sideris, AWS Technical Account Manager Bridgewater Associates, based in Westport, CT, is a major investment management firm with more than $150 billion in assets that it manages for a global customer base of pension funds, endowments, foundations, central banks, and national governments. It is also an Amazon Web Services (AWS) customer that we’ve worked closely with over the past year and half, developing a partnership that helps Bridgewater leverage the tools—and benefits—of the AWS Cloud. Last December, Bridgewater Systems Engineer Joel Thompson approached us with questions around the features ... Read More

Feed: Percona Database Performance Blog. Author: Dave Avery. Dave Avery  | September 18, 2017 |  Posted In: Database Monitoring, Percona Toolkit, Technical Webinars PREVIOUS POST Join Percona’s, Principal Support Engineer, Markus Albe as he presents A Percona Support Engineer Walkthrough for pt-stalk on Tuesday, September 19, 2017, at 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-7). As a support engineer, I get dozens of pt-stalk captures from our customers containing samples of iostat, vmstat, top, ps, SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS, SHOW PROCESSLIST and a multitude of other diagnostics outputs. These are the tools of the trade for performance and troubleshooting, and we ... Read More

Feed: IDERA Community Blog; Author: Molly Abrams; It’s that time of year again!IDERA is excited to see everyone at PASS Summit 2017! This year’s summit will take place from November 1st-3rd at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington. The exhibit hall will be open from Wednesday (November 1) to Friday (November 3). IDERA will be located at booth 112. Come check us out! What to expect this year at the summit: More than 5,000 registrants from more than 2,000 companies Representatives from 52 different countries Over 200 technical sessions presented by industry experts from around the world including ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Kristoffer Nilsson. Creating an architecture to support AI is about creating a modern platform for advanced analytics, and means being able to support all steps of the analytics lifecycle. Requirements An architecture for advanced analytics/artificial intelligence need to cover three main domains, data, discovery and deployment. Data Data is the foundation of analytics: after all, we need something to analyse. Data can come from a multitude of places and include a multitude of types such as: Traditional data in data warehouses and operational systems, most commonly relational databases and files such as CSV and XML. Because ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. Five reasons to join Think Big Analytics and see your career in analytics skyrocket Data science continues to grow in popularity. With the global boom in data creation, plus the most successful organisations working to get the most from their information with big data strategies, the brightest professionals are flocking to build a career in data and analytics. However, the industry is still relatively young, so many of those joining the ranks are early in their career. While the entry-level cupboard is well stocked, demand is outstripping supply when it comes to ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Vincent Granville. Monday newsletter published by Data Science Central. Previous editions can be found here.  The contribution flagged with a + is our selection for the picture of the week. Announcements Vertica in-database machine learning supports the entire predictive analytics process with end-to-end machine learning management, massively parallel processing and simple SQL execution, allowing data scientists and analysts to embrace the power of Big Data with no limits and no compromises. Find out how you can accelerate time to value on predictive analytics projects with Vertica. Learn more. Don’t miss out! The next class ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tim Bock. Creating a meaningful visualization from data with long lists can be challenging. While word clouds are often the popular choice, they are not always the best option. This post illustrates seven alternatives to word clouds that can be used to visualize data from long lists, each has its own trade-offs. The visualization examples in this post use the GDP of 185 countries and are created using R. The common option: A word (phrase) cloud… This visualization below is a phrase cloud, showing the whole names of countries (i.e., phrases) rather than just words. The size of ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Mary Pilecki. The convergence of adtech and martech is inevitable. Watch the webinar replay    As we covered in our recent webinar, the convergence of advertising technology and marketing technology is inevitable — and that’s a good thing for marketers. The union of these two tech worlds is part of an emerging broader marketing mindset shift that focuses on quality rather than scale. Today’s customers demand experiences that are engaging and relevant, and the right technologies will help companies deliver just that. Here are some key takeaways from our discussion: Convergence is happening in part because ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Oracle MySQL Group; As continue of the previous blog posted on Aug 17, 2017, please find below a list conferences & events where you can find MySQL Community team or MySQL experts during the period of second half of September till end of December. The ones which are new are marked below. Please be aware that the list does not have to be final and during the time more events could be added or some of them removed.  Madison PHP, Madison, US, Sep 22-23, 2017​ MySQL Community team is supporting this PHP conference as Community partner. Oracle ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Mary Beth Ainsworth. The intelligence community needs to revamp its approach to analytics -- and that means creating an analytics strategy that will change the status quo. The challenges facing analysts are consistent throughout the strategic, operational and tactical levels of intelligence operations. The intelligence cycle (see diagram below) is a great teaching tool, but in practice cohesion throughout the process is extremely problematic. Often times the Priority Intelligence Requirements that come out of the Planning and Direction phase seem cookie cutter and are so high level that it’s difficult to measure impact. Intelligence Requirements and ... Read More