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Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Mike Gilliland. The practice of business forecasting falls well short of the potential exhibited in academic research and forecasting competitions. Chris Chatfield* noted this in a 1986 editorial in the International Journal of Forecasting, where he called on statisticians to find a better way of communicating the better use of existing methods to practitioners. Fast forward to 2000, when Michael Lawrence** penned another editorial in the IJF, lamenting the lack of progress toward Chatfield's goal, and deploring the lack of research examining the causes. More recently, Morlidge's studies (cited frequently in this blog), show businesses in ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Keri Harling. 1. Join Tableau for Students or Tableau for Teaching Program We’ve helped over one million students and instructors find empowerment in Tableau. Students and instructors can receive free licenses and eLearning through our Academic Programs. 2. Schedule your exam It may sound crazy but schedule your exam first. It's counter-intuitive, but setting a deadline for yourself will drive you to study. After you’ve been verified as a student, you will receive a 20% discount off the Tableau Certification Exam. The discount applies automatically during checkout. Your exam will be valid for six months after ... Read More

Feed: Redis. Author: Steve Naventi. Yiftach Shoolman is the Co-founder and CTO of Redis Labs, the company behind Redis, an open-source in-memory data structure with key-value database that supports different kinds of abstract data structures. It provides real-time data to enable companies to manage, process, analyse, and make predictions. Three weeks ago, Redis Labs raised its Series F round and entered the coveted unicorn club.According to Yiftach, the secret behind the problem-solving capabilities of Redis lies in the fact that it was invented by people who didn’t come from any database background. “Since everyone had different perspectives, we solved the problem ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Swimming + Data Science. Two swimmers come into this meet on Swimmer of the Meet streaks. Lillie Nordmann has won two in row for the Texas girls, and Zoie Hartman has won two in a row for the California girls. Swimmer of the Meet criteria is still the same as it’s been for the entire State-Off. We’ll look for athletes who have won two events, thereby scoring a the maximum possible forty points. In the event of a tie, where multiple athletes win two events, we’ll use All-American standards as a tiebreaker.BoysSwimmer_Of_Meet[[1]] %>% slice_head(n = 5) %>% ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Theory meets practice.... Abstract:We attempt a mathematical description of the risk scoring algorithm used in the Google and Apple exposure notification framework (v1). This algorithm is used in many digital contact tracing apps for COVID-19, e.g., in Germany or Switzerland. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The markdown+Rknitr source code of this blog is available under a GNU General Public License (GPL v3) license from github.MotivationMy phone runs a digital COVID-19 contact tracing app based on the Apple and Google exposure notification (GAEN) framework [Apple| Google| Wikipedia]. Since my future health ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Nader Nanjiani. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, only 60 percent of college students receive a degree within six years. Universities—like Portland State University (PSU) and Oklahoma State University (OSU-OKC)—are using data lakes for analytics and machine learning to improve academic achievement by helping students reach their educational goals faster.And now, with the launch of an Education Pricing Program (EPP) for Amazon Simple Storage (Amazon S3), education institutions can use storage to build a data lake for up to 45 percent off public pricing for the S3 One Zone–Infrequent Access and S3 ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Teresa Carlson. Due to COVID-19, schools quickly shifted to remote education to meet students’ needs and wrap up the school year. But with a new school year upon us and social distancing measures still in place, many classes will not gather in traditional classroom settings. Millions of students are now learning in their homes. And public sector leaders are creating new models to ensure learning is sustainable and accessible to all. These changes certainly carry their own set of challenges, but they also open new possibilities for the coming school year.Amazon Web Services (AWS) ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University (HBMSU) successfully completed the full migration of its systems and applications from its on-premises data centers to Amazon Web Services (AWS). The move provides immediate benefits to HBMSU such as cost savings, flexibility, and security, and opens up new horizons for innovation, research, and global expansion. With the move to the cloud, the university is working toward its mission to reshape the future of education in the Middle East. “AWS’s leading cloud computing technology and features open up opportunities for us to expand our ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Jim Harris. As many people recognize, misconceptions about COVID-19 data and its interpretation can undermine our commitment to making data-informed decisions and taking data-driven actions while combating the pandemic. In this third post in my coronavirus terms series, I’ll revisit and expand upon some of the terms and concepts I’ve covered in previous posts related to dashboard metrics and coronavirus testing. It’s about time (again) There’s a lot of data and metrics about the pandemic. It can be challenging to know what essential indicators to focus on during our efforts to slow coronavirus community spread. I think ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. University students in the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland can now register for the AWS Educate University Challenge for a chance to win prizes for their university while building skills in the cloud. In the inter-university competition, students from the UK and Ireland earn points for their university by completing AWS Educate Cloud Career Pathways and Specialty Badges. With the increasing demand for cloud-skilled employees, AWS Educate provides an academic gateway for the next generation of IT and cloud professionals. AWS Educate is Amazon’s global initiative to provide students ... Read More