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Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: matthew-johnsen; Higher education can be a great source of fulfillment and personal development. It’s also a powerful economic asset. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans with college degrees are almost twice as likely to be employed as those with only a high school diploma.But getting there isn’t easy. Many enroll in higher education programs but drop out after facing academic or personal difficulties. One study concluded that as many as 54.8 percent of incoming undergraduate students won’t complete a degree within six years. This is a ... Read More

Feed: Tractica. Author: Keith Kirkpatrick. What if your car’s navigation system could simultaneously calculate all of the possible routes from New York City, to Washington, D.C., and account for weather conditions, current and future traffic conditions, road construction, and even traffic signals, providing you with the optimal route in real time? How about an algorithm that would automatically mine through possible compounds to find the most stable one on which to develop a new, life-saving drug? Or how about a wedding planning application that would let a bride easily configure and reconfigure a seating arrangement using specific criteria relating to ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: business-science.io - Articles. Model interpretability is critical to businesses. If you want to use high performance models (GLM, RF, GBM, Deep Learning, H2O, Keras, xgboost, etc), you need to learn how to explain them. With machine learning interpretability growing in importance, several R packages designed to provide this capability are gaining in popularity. We analyze the IML package in this article. In recent blog posts we assessed LIME for model agnostic local interpretability functionality and DALEX for both local and global machine learning explanation plots. This post examines the iml package (short for Interpretable Machine Learning) to ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: . IRA Tweet Data You may have heard that two researchers at Clemson University analyzed almost 3 millions tweets from the Internet Research Agency (IRA) – a “Russian troll factory”. In partnership with FiveThirtyEight, they made all of their data available on GitHub. So of course, I had to read the files into R, which I was able to do with this code: files c("IRAhandle_tweets_1.csv","IRAhandle_tweets_2.csv","IRAhandle_tweets_3.csv","IRAhandle_tweets_4.csv","IRAhandle_tweets_5.csv","IRAhandle_tweets_6.csv","IRAhandle_tweets_7.csv","IRAhandle_tweets_8.csv","IRAhandle_tweets_9.csv")my_files paste0("~/Downloads/russian-troll-tweets-master/",files)each_file function(file) {tweet read_csv(file) }library(tidyverse) tweet_data NULLfor (file in my_files) {temp each_file(file)temp$id sub(".csv", "", file)tweet_data rbind(tweet_data, temp)} Note that this is a large file, with 2,973,371 observations of 16 variables. Let’s do ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Mark Needham. Welcome to this week in Neo4j where we round up what’s been happening in the world of graph databases in the last 7 days. This week we have releases of APOC and the Neo4j JDBC Driver, a paper explaining how to derive socially useful information from public blockchains, a refresh of the Neo4j ETL guide, and more! This week’s featured community member is Michael Graham, Full Stack Developer. Michael Graham – This Week’s Featured Community Member Michael Graham has recently been exploring using Neo4j with GraphQL. He’s the author of the the ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Bill Schmarzo. My blog “Blockchain + Analytics: Enabling Smart IOT” drew some great feedback asking me to clarify my autonomous vehicle example that used blockchain as a means of near real-time, peer-to-peer communications between clusters of intelligent devices and machines.  But first, some background. Edge analytics within an Internet of Things (IOT) world is very different than traditional big data analytics because it required the ability to stream and analyze massive amounts of real-time data, much of which never changes substantially, outside the confines of the data center or the cloud ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: doreen-dunn; Overview Are you getting enough sleep? On this week's episode of Making Data Simple, Dr. Kyu Rhee, Vice President and Chief Health Officer for IBM Watson Health, joins us to talk about how machine learning, AI, and Watson are advancing healthcare initiatives. Learn how far we have come in the health industry, what the future holds for data and healthcare, and Dr. Rhee's tips for Al about sleep. Show notes 00.25 Connect with Al Martin on Twitter and LinkedIn. 01.00 Connect with Dr. Kyu Rhee on Twitter and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Saint Louis University (SLU) will become the first university to bring virtual personal assistants into every student residence on its campus and to equip them with a private, SLU-specific skill through Alexa for Business. This fall, SLU plans to place more than 2,300 Amazon Echo Dots in residence hall rooms and student apartments.Every room will have an Echo Dot set up and ready to use when fall classes get underway in late August. The exclusive “SLU” skill – built by N-Powered and deployed through Alexa for Business to all Alexa-enabled devices ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Matt Spillar. Earlier this week, Hortonworks announced financial results for the second quarter of 2018. Momentum is high at the halfway point of the year, as our CEO Rob Bearden announced another record breaking quarter! The Q2 revenue of $86.3 million marked a total revenue growth of 40 percent compared to the prior year. Q2 also was another quarter of positive operating cash flow. Hortonworks has been a public company for over four years now, and in that time, has evolved from the leading Hadoop provider to the leading global data management platform company. More enterprises ... Read More

Feed: Featured Posts - Hadoop360. Author: Sharma Niti. The prior achievement of the internet has largely been reliant on technology and how it has evolved over the years- getting faster and more secure as enterprises continue to grow with analytics and innovation. Big Data is one of these major breakthroughs, serving huge functions at modern organizations. Concepts like data driven machine learning and the ability to store huge amounts of information to gain context from has been hugely beneficial towards the strategic aspects of running international businesses. Organizations have been making huge changes to the structure of their own infrastructure ... Read More