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Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Roel M. Hogervorst. In this post I will show how I run an R script on a schedule, by making use of ‘serverless’ computing service on the Microsoft Cloud called Azure Functions. In short I will use a custom docker container, install required software, install required r-packages using {renv} and deploy it in the Azure cloud. I program the process in azure such that the it runs once a day without any supervision. This is not truely a tutorial, I cannot say this it the best approach, but I hope you can base your work on this ... 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. Andrea Luciani is a Technical Advisor for the Directorate General for Economics, Statistics and Research at the Bank of Italy, and co-author of the bimets package. Structural Equation Models (SEM), which are common in many economic modeling efforts, require fitting and simulating whole system of equations where each equation may depend on ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: kjytay. (This is a PSA post, where I share a package that I think that might be of interest to the community but I haven’t looked too deeply into myself.) Today I learnt of the covidcast R package, which provides access to the COVIDcast Epidata API published by the Delphi group at Carnegie Mellon University. According to the covidcast R package website, This API provides daily access to a range of COVID-related signals Delphi that builds and maintains, from sources like symptom surveys and medical claims data, and also standard signals that we simply mirror, like confirmed cases and ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Welcome to Swimming + Data Science on Swimming + Data Science. SwimmeR version 0.7.2 is now available from CRAN. This new version contains some new features, plus a few changes to make it more user-friendly. Let me show you what I’ve been working on. New Features SwimmeR can now parse S.A.M.M.S. style results. S.A.M.M.S., which stands for Swimclub And Meet Management System, was an ahem swim club and meet management system that predated Hy-Tek’s Meet and Team Manager. It seems to have been most popular in California, where it’s still used by USA Swimming clubs and high ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Jesper Krogh; There was an excellent question from Francis on my MySQL X DevAPI tutorial on how to work with NULL values: Is it possible to store an attribute with the null value, and how to find it (xxx is null ? It may sound like a trivial question, but the answer is not all that simple, so instead of just replying directly to the comment, I think it is worth covering the subject of NULL values in the X DevAPI in a separate post. The Short Story In short there are two ways to work ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Join us for Power BI Dev Camp! on Thursday 28 January, 2021 at 11:00 AM – 12:00  noon PST.  Ted Pattison, Microsoft principal program manager with Power BI, presents this month’s topic: Developing Custom Visuals for Power BI. In this Dev Camp session, attendees will learn how to get started designing and implementing custom visuals for Power BI. The session examines the Power BI Visuals API that Microsoft created to assist in the development of custom visuals. Campers will learn how to define the capabilities and data mappings for ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Néstor Gándara. By Néstor Gándara, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Chandra Venkata Atchut Narayanarao, Sr. Cloud Transformation Architect at VirtusaBy Piyush Agarwal, Sr. Cloud Transformation Architect at Virtusa Virtusa recently received a requirement to make an application programming interface (API) accessible across another Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. The API was an internal-only API hosted in a private subnet, and could be accessed only from within the network. The requirement also stipulated Virtusa make only a few read-only (Get) methods accessible, and not all the methods from the API. There are a ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. At PGCon 2020, I gave a presentation proposing that the PostgreSQL community could use better benchmarking tools to serve the open source developers.  Some of us continued discussing that during the unconference shortly after.  Here I describe a proof of concept for an open source framework to run, but not necessarily limited to, user defined benchmarks that follows the model of loading a database and running a series of queries.The goal of this framework is to have simpler way create, modify, and execute benchmarks.  I will try to demonstrate that by using dbgen and qgen provided by ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. This post is co-written with Shawn Koupal, an Enterprise Analytics IT Architect at Best Western International, Inc. A common ask from Amazon QuickSight administrators is to understand the lineage of a given dashboard (what analysis is it built from, what datasets are used in the analysis, and what data sources do those datasets use). QuickSight APIs allow us to capture the metadata from each object and build a complete picture of the linkages between each object. As a QuickSight administrator, you can build a dashboard that displays the lineage from dashboard to data source, along ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Hong Ooi. [This article was first published on Revolutions, 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. by Hong Ooi Last week, I announced AzureCosmosR, an R interface to Azure Cosmos DB, a fully-managed NoSQL database service in Azure. This post gives a short rundown on the main features of AzureCosmosR. Explaining what Azure Cosmos DB is can be tricky, so here’s an excerpt from the official description: Azure Cosmos ... Read More