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Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Tom Wriggins. Beneath the cute exterior hides a fraudster with Value-Based Payments on his mind. And cheese. Definitely cheese. Photo by Ricky Kharawala on Unsplash Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Value-Based Payments (VBP), health care’s new magic, “silver bullet” that will solve all our fraud problems. Last month, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a press release entitled, “HHS Proposes Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute Reforms to Support Value-Based and Coordinated Care“ that announced changes to how the Physician Self-Referral Law (the “Stark Law”) and the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute should be interpreted. The changes, ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Andre De Vries. 19 November, 2019 | Andre de Vries 5 Reasons Why You Should Join the Tableau #DataDev Hackathons The final Tableau 2019 hackathon which took place on the 12th of November at the Tableau Conference was the last session organised by the Tableau Developer team in 2019. There were a total of eight hackathons this year in six different cities. I participated in two of them – London and Las Vegas. I really enjoyed taking part, and in this blog post I want to highlight a few reasons why you should join these ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Hadley Wickham. [This article was first published on RStudio Blog, 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. I’m very excited to announce that Allison Horst is RStudio’s inaugural artist-in-residence. Allison is one of my favourite artists in the R community. Over the next year, she’s going to be working with us to create even more awesome artwork. Here’s a little about Allison in her own words. — Hadley Hello ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. Two Hundred twenty-three new packages made it to CRAN in October. Here are my “Top 40” picks in ten categories: Computational Methods, Data, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Pharmacology, Statistics, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods admmDensestSubmatrix v0.1.0: Implements a method to identify the densest sub-matrix in a given or sampled binary matrix ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Saunak Chandra. By Mitesh Shah, Sr. Cloud Product Manager at Denodo TechnologiesBy Saunak Chandra, Sr. Solutions Architect at AWSOrganizations of all sizes are facing an increasingly complex data landscape. Data now resides in multiple on-premises systems and across cloud environments, and applications need to consume data regardless of its location. The growing numbers and volumes of data sources are increasingly difficult to manage, and enterprises are grappling with emerging business requirements such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), cloud integration, and more. The need for greater agility and faster time-to-market is clear, ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Mark Beccue. This is the first installment of a series on AI ethics. As we near the end of 2019, artificial intelligence (AI) technology continues to steadily permeate our world. While promoters wax on about how AI is helping to track and save snow leopards, accurately predict high risk patients for atrial fibrillation (A-fib), and seamlessly solve customer service issues, there is concern about how the use of AI technology can be controlled. In Tractica’s view, the primary ethical issues for AI fall into four categories: Privacy: Managing the use and ownership of personal data ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Until now, you could generate personalized recommendations through Amazon Personalize for individual users in real time. Amazon Personalize now supports batch recommendations, which lets you generate personalized recommendations for a large number of users, or similar items for a large number of items, in one go, and then use them in batch processes, such as sending emails or notifications. To use batch recommendations, simply create a batch inference job through the AWS console or the API, and provide a file (via S3) with a list of users or items for whom you want to generate recommendations. Amazon ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. With the AWS CloudFormation Registry, you can submit, discover, and manage resource providers. Once a resource provider is published in the AWS CloudFormation Registry, it can be used to manage third party resources in the same way as native AWS resource providers. This new functionality will also work out of the box with services such as AWS Control Tower and AWS Service Catalog to help you with governance and resource compliance, and AWS CloudFormation StackSets for cross-account and cross-region management.  You can develop your own resource providers using the AWS CloudFormation CLI, a new open source developer ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. To get started deploying your Python code as a Lambda function, upload your function code via the AWS CLI or AWS Lambda console and select the Python 3.8 runtime. Lambda takes care of running and scaling your function with high availability. You can also use the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) to deploy and manage your serverless application authored in Python. If you have existing Python functions you can migrate them to the new runtime by making any necessary changes to their code for compatibility with Python 3.8, and changing the function’s runtime configuration to “python3.8”.  ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Node.js 12 is the latest LTS release of Node.js and will be supported for security and bug fixes until April 2022. Lambda will automatically apply updates made to the Node.js 12 as those become available from the Node.js community.  To deploy your Node.js code as a Lambda function, upload your code through the AWS CLI or AWS Lambda console and select the Node.js 12.x runtime. You can also use the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) to deploy and manage your serverless application authored in Node.js. If you have existing Node.js functions you can migrate them to the ... Read More