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Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Bill Schmarzo. There is a phrase in baseball about pitchers “pitching through pain” that refers to pitchers taking the mound to pitch even though they have aches and pains – sore arms, stiff joints, blisters, strained muscles, etc. The idea is that these pitchers are so tough that they can pitch effectively even though they are not quite physically right.  However, when the human system is asked to do something that it’s not prepared to do in the most effective manner, other bad habits emerge in an attempt to counter these ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Stephanie Glen. What is the Difference Between Stratified Sampling and Cluster Sampling? The main difference between stratified sampling and cluster sampling is that with cluster sampling, you have natural groups separating your population. For example, you might be able to divide your data into natural groupings like city blocks, voting districts or school districts. With stratified random sampling, these breaks may not exist*, so you divide your target population into groups (more formally called "strata").  In stratified sampling, a sample  is drawn from each strata (using a random sampling method like simple ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Arielle Trzcinski. “Today’s announcement carries our commitment to health even further by engaging with participants on a larger scale than ever before.” — Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer At Apple’s special September event earlier this week, the tech titan announced key research initiatives designed to help improve population health. The research builds from data shared by Apple customers using iPhones and Apple Watches. The kicker here is that Apple is empowering consumers with more control over their health data and how they want it to be used — essentially putting the customer in charge ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle welcomes our customers and partners to Oracle OpenWorld 2019 in San Francisco, the world's largest and most prominent business and technology conference. The annual event takes place September 16-19 at The Moscone Center and throughout the South of Market district. Oracle’s unique partnerships with the City of San Francisco, the San Francisco Giants and the Golden State Warriors allow it to offer this year’s attendees unique events with exclusive access to Oracle Park and the new, state-of-the-art Chase Center. Over the course of the week, Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer Larry ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Adam Conley; In this article, we will go through exactly what WordPress Multisite is, the pros and cons of using it, and if it’s right for you.What is WordPress Multisite?WordPress Multisite is a WordPress feature that allows you to create multiple WordPress installations. These installations can be installed on as many sub-domains or sub-directories as you need. Keep in mind you can only choose one method of a WordPress Multisite, either sub-domains or sub-directories.Prerequisites to Installing WordPress MultisiteEnabling multisite requires three things:Have a Powerful Web Host: If you’re on a shared hosting platform, the web host ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. (© Photo by Jakub Mosur) Amazon Web Services (AWS) and a consortium of Bay Area community colleges along with their K12 and California State University partners, launched a regional initiative to prepare students for jobs in one of the fastest-growing, and highest-paying, areas in the technology field: cloud computing. The schools include City College of San Francisco, Canada College, De Anza College, Evergreen Valley College, Foothill College, Las Positas College, College of San Mateo, Mission College, SIATech High Schools and Skyline College. The consortium will launch a multi-course curriculum, complete with ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Arielle Trzcinski. “Today’s announcement carries our commitment to health even further by engaging with participants on a larger scale than ever before.”  Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer At Apple’s special September event earlier this week the tech titan announced key research initiatives designed to help improve population health. The research builds from data shared by Apple customers using iPhones and Apple watches. The kicker here is that Apple is empowering consumers with more control over their health data and how they want it to be used—essentially putting the customer in charge. Following on the ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Ewen Harrison. [This article was first published on R – DataSurg, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Background In healthcare, we deal with a lot of binary outcomes. Death yes/no, disease recurrence yes/no, for instance. These outcomes are often easily analysed using binary logistic regression via finalfit(). When the time taken for the outcome to occur is important, we need a different approach. For instance, in patients with cancer, ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: dtholmes@mail.ubc.ca. [This article was first published on The Lab-R-torian, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Background R dogma is that for loops are bad because they are slow but this is not the case in C++. I had never programmed a line of C++ as of last week but my beloved firstborn started university last week and is enrolled in a C++ intro course, so I thought I ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. The machine learning expertise at Oracle isn’t concentrated in a single department or R&D effort, it’s dispersed all over the world. That was made clear recently when more than 250 of the company’s experts spent three days together at Oracle headquarters for a machine-learning summit. It took an hour just to get through a lightning-round of introductions at one minute per team. “We represent the oldest profession in the world,” joked one engineer introducing his team. “I’m talking about construction, the tools that help the pharaohs build the pyramids.” Seemingly every vertical market, from ... Read More