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Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Server Dev Team; All together now Let’s now put together all that we’ve learned in InnoDB Data Locking – Part 2 “Locks” about table and record locks to understand following situation: mysql> BEGIN; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> SELECT * FROM t FOR SHARE; +----+ | id | +----+ | 5 | | 10 | | 42 | +----+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> DELETE FROM t WHERE id=10; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> INSERT INTO t VALUES (4); ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Econometrics and Free Software. Some weeks ago I tweeted this: GUIs were a mistake — Bruno Rodrigues (@brodriguesco) October 9, 2020 you might think that I tweeted this as an unfunny joke, but it’s not. GUIs were one of the worstthings to happen for statisticians. Clickable interfaces for data analysis is probably one of thegreatest source of mistakes and errors in data processing, very likely costing many millions tocompanies worldwide and is a source of constant embarassment when mistakes happen which cost thereputation, and money, of institutions or people. Remember the infamous Excel mistake by Reinhard and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Elliot Stewart. The COVID-19 pandemic is driving a parallel “infodemic”: the rapid spread of competing and often harmful narratives about the virus. Social media plays a central role in this infodemic, serving as a forum for the spread and evolution of theories and beliefs with origins in broadcast, print, online news, blogs, and other digital arenas. The ability of decision-makers to understand the role of social media in spreading ideas and beliefs is limited by the scale of activity on these platforms, where users produce millions of posts per day. To help navigate this ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Sandy Carter. By Sandy Carter, AWS VP, Public Sector Global Partners and Programs What a year for AWS Public Sector Partners and our Program! In my role leading the Worldwide Public Sector Partners and Programs team at Amazon Web Services (AWS), I get a firsthand look at the value and impact AWS Partners have on customers all over the world. Public sector at AWS includes government (federal, state, and local), space, healthcare, education, and nonprofits. What really excites me is the focus on purpose—AWS Public Sector Partners support customers who are helping get clean ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Mike Pflug. Identity thieves would love to get their hands on your health records. © Getty Image Recently nine pharmacists from across the country were charged for their part in a $12.1M health care fraud scheme. The pharmacists allegedly took money for prescription medications that were neither purchased nor dispensed. The indictments further allege that the defendants billed Medicare and Medicaid for medications that were often medically unnecessary and for some medications that were purportedly dispensed to deceased beneficiaries after their dates of death.  While rarely this brazen or widespread, these techniques represent a few of the common ways fraudsters cheat the system, driving up the cost ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Andy Cotgreave. Editor’s note: A version of this blog post originally appeared in Nightingale, a publication by the Data Visualization Society. How was US general election night for you? For me, it was underwhelming.  That emotion had nothing to do with the political story, but everything to do with the data storytelling of US TV networks. My goal on election night was to enjoy and comment on the way they told data stories, which you can find on Twitter under #ElectionViz. I came away disappointed. The gulf between the charts we find on news websites and ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. How to join this free online event with Kara Woo, Daniella Lowenberg, Matt Jones, Carl Boettiger and Karthik Ram. There is no one-size-fits-all protocol for depositing your research data into a public repository in a way that maximizes its reuse and citation. We’ve assembled a panel that will help you understand the issues and opportunities for developing new tools and documentation. This 1-hour event, moderated by Kara Woo, includes 5 speakers and 20 minutes for Q & A on: Where and how to deposit data (or data + software!) Challenges ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Mike Frank; The Challenge Often with sensitive information, you need to have an audit log. Frequently data such as this will contain a classification level as part of the row, defining policies for how it is handled, audited, etc. In a prior blog I discussed how to audit the selection of classified data. This blog covers how to audit data changes made to classified data.  As I stated in the prior blog – Sensitive Data might be labeled as –  Highly Sensitive  Top Secret  Classified  Restricted  Clearance Required  Highly Confidential  Protected Data that is categorized or ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Date: 16.11.2020 Tags:   postgresql    switzerland    2ndquadrant    edb    high-availability    logical-replication    pgtap    swiss-pgday    Category:   Interviews    Interviewed by: Andreas Scherbaum PostgreSQL is the World’s most advanced Open Source Relational Database. The interview series “PostgreSQL Person of the Week” presents the people who make the project what it is today. Read all interviews here. Please tell us about yourself, and where you are from. I’m Swiss, living in the German speaking part of Switzerland, together with my wife and our two kids. I turned 40 this year, which just makes ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Rosaria Silipo. Meet two text mining experts in today’s interview, which explores some of the common issues faced by data scientists in text analytics. Prof. Dursun Delen and Scott Fincher are the teachers of the “[L4-TP] Introduction to Text Processing” course regularly run by KNIME. This course is based on the KNIME Text Processing Extension. Prof. Dursun Delen is the Holder of William S. Spears Endowed Chair in Business Administration, Patterson Family Chair in Business Analytics, Director of Research for the Center for Health Systems Innovation, and also Regents Professor of ... Read More