Tag: Trends

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Nishtha Singh. Technology changes on the daily basis transforming the rules like never before. Something that looked modern and fresh yesterday can appear dated seemingly overnight, and trends once dismissed as irrevocably passé can unexpectedly cycle back in vogue. Over the past few years, AI, Big Data, and such disruptive technologies have succeeded in transforming many industries already but a notable and a positive change noticeable is in the travel sector. Maybe because travel industries comprises of an enormous amount of data through online searches, analysis of consumer buying behavior but ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Valeriy Kravchuk; Today I am going to provide some details on the last item in my list of problems with Oracle's way of MySQL server development, maintenance of MySQL Manual. I stated that: "MySQL Manual still have many details missing and is not fixed fast enough. Moreover, it is not open source..." Let me explain the above:MySQL Reference Manual is not open source. It used to be built from DocBook XML sources. Probably that's still the case. But you can not find the source code in open repositories (please, correct me if I am wrong, I ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Since the launch of the AWS Canada (Central) Region in December 2016, many organizations have begun using AWS to transform Canadian healthcare infrastructure and services. The entities use AWS to help lower the cost of IT services, provide more focus on patients, improve data security and compliance, improve healthcare clinician and staff productivity, and begin resolving major health problems impacting the general population.From data center migration to machine learning, healthcare authorities, hospitals, and service providers have been focused on the following key trends: Data residency within Canada: Customers can run their ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Ronald van Loon. Data transformation is currently upon us, and we can’t deny the fact that the future we talked about is now here. The world is finally progressing towards a more mature period of digital competence, and data innovators sit at the center of it all. Data-driven companies have an important role to play in ensuring innovation and making sure that customers get the services they require. I recently had the experience of watching Oracle Modern Business Experience Videos by Oracle CEO Mark Hurd and Vice President, Cloud and Technology, John Abel. Both explained the ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: William Vorhies. Summary: There are some interesting use cases where combining CNNs and RNN/LSTMs seems to make sense and a number of researchers pursuing this.  However, the latest trends in CNNs may make this obsolete. There are things that just don’t seem to go together.  Take oil and water for instance.  Both valuable, but try putting them together?  That was my reaction when I first came across the idea of combining CNNs (convolutional neural nets) and RNNs (recurrent neural nets).  After all they’re optimized for completely different problem types. CNNs are ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. This month we are spending some time talking about the importance of database monitoring and auditing of your database environments. Over the past year (and in some cases even longer!) we have posted many technical resources to help you monitor and audit your PostgreSQL setups and we wanted to consolidate them into one blog for you to bookmark. And make sure to join us on August 21st for our free webinar “An Introduction to Performance Monitoring for PostgreSQL” to learn how to operate PostgreSQL efficiently and running at optimal levels. Most Popular PostgreSQL Monitoring Resources A Performance ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Alex Baransky. A Deluge of Content Over the last two decades, the accessibility of media has increased dramatically. One of the main reasons for this surge in available content is the evolution of online streaming platforms. Services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and others enable access for millions of consumers to a seemingly countless number of movies and television shows. With so many choices now available, it is more important than ever to have effective ways to filter all the possible titles and find options that best match your interests. Many streaming services have implemented functionality to ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Vincent Granville. Join the largest community of machine learning (ML), deep learning, AI, data science, business analytics, BI, operations research, mathematical and statistical professionals: Sign up here. If instead, you are only interested in receiving our newsletter, you can subscribe here. There is no cost. The full membership includes, in addition to the newsletter subscription: Access to member-only pages, our free data science eBooks, data sets, code snippets, and solutions to data science / machine learning / mathematical challenges. Support to all your questions regarding our community. Data sets, projects, cheat sheets, tutorials, programming ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Matthew Gierc. (This post originally appeared here)  In a data-driven world, it’s odd that gut instinct still plays such a big part in business decisions. But why isn’t surprising: Not only do businesses have more data than they can handle, but they’re also using a tool never designed to gather BI (Business Intelligence) in the first place. That tool is Excel; approximately “1 in 5 businesses are using spreadsheets as the main tool to commu...according to Bernard Mar (Forbes). Excel is a great tool for certain business requirements, but gathering and ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Igor Bobriakov. Image credit: tinydesignr.com Nowadays, there is a huge list of powerful visualization tools to help you illustrate your ideas, visualize your data, make it talk, share your significant analytics with customers and the global community. In this article, we will compare the most commonly used platforms and analyze their main features to help you choose one or several platforms that will provide indispensable aid for your work communication. It is often hard to separate the facts from fiction when evaluating various business intelligence (BI) tools, as every BI vendor markets ... Read More