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Feed: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team. Author: Arvind Shyamsundar. Authored by Arvind Shyamsundar (Microsoft)Credits: Prasad Wagle, Srinivasa Babu Valluri, Arun Jayapal, Ranga Bondada, Anand Joseph (members of the Sayint by Zen3 team)Reviewers: Nellie Gustafsson, Umachandar Jayachandran, Dimitri Furman (Microsoft) This blog post was inspired our recent work with the Sayint dev team, who are a part of Zen3 Infosolutions. SQLCAT has been working with them in their process of adopting SQL Server 2017. Microsoft introduced the ability to invoke external Python scripts in SQL Server 2017, and this capability to effectively move ‘intelligence’ closer to the data, was a big ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. AWS EdStart recently held two pitch days, one in San Francisco and one in New York City. These events showcased 22 EdTech startups from the accelerator to potential customers and investors. These events provided opportunities for companies to receive direct feedback on their products, identify areas for collaboration with other industry members, and network with subject matter experts and industry leaders.During the event, attendees provided the pitching companies with direct real-time feedback on their offerings and pitches. According to Jessica Rothenberg-Aalami, CEO & Co-Founder of Cell-Ed, “When you’re speaking at AWS ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Managing database users though federation allows you to manage authentication and authorization procedures centrally. Amazon Redshift now supports database authentication with IAM, enabling user authentication though enterprise federation. No need to manage separate database users and passwords to further ease the database administration. You can now manage users outside of AWS and authenticate them for access to an Amazon Redshift data warehouse. Do this by integrating IAM authentication and a third-party SAML-2.0 identity provider (IdP), such as AD FS, PingFederate, or Okta. In addition, database users can also be automatically created at their first login ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Irina Peregud. 18 October 2017Author Irina PeregudAI is one of those technologies with the potential to reshape how we live, move, and work. AI is also commonly called “the electricity” of the 21st century, so let’s have a look at the key technology and business trends that will shape the evolution of AI market.1. Democratization of AI toolsDemocratization of AI tools will enable more companies to try these technologies. Tech industry leaders, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, now compete in the field of AI platforms, announcing new tools and APIs that will help coders build the ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Aditya Parameswaran. Gears (source: Pixabay) Check out “How Pirelli built a data science team from scratch,” a case study available on Safari, to learn more about how data science can enable business transformation. As practitioners who build data science tools, we seem to have a rather myopic obsession with the challenges faced by the Googles, Amazons, and Facebooks of the world—companies with massive and mature data analytics ecosystems, supported by experienced systems engineers, and used by data scientists who are capable programmers. However, these companies represent a tiny fraction of the “big data” universe ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Praveen Sripati. There are different ways of kick starting a Hive/Pig/MR/Spark on Amazon EMR. We already looked at how to submit a Hive job or a step from the AWS EMR management console here. This approach is cool, but doesn't have much scope for automation.Here are the other ways to start the Big Data Processing with some level of automation.1) Use Apache Oozie to create a workflow and a coordinator.2) Use the AWS CLI3) Login to the master instance and use the Hive shellIn the above, Option 1 is a bit complicated and will be ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Ed Hughes. SAS will be represented by more than 20 attendees at the INFORMS Annual Meeting at the George R. Brown Convention Center (GBCC) in Houston, Texas. Officially the conference runs from Sunday, Oct. 22 through Wednesday, Oct. 25, but our activities in Houston start even earlier. Technology Workshops on Saturday, October 21: "JMP Pro and the Predictive Modeling Workflow," (1:00-3:30pm, room 330A) "Solving Business Problems with SAS Analytics and OPTMODEL," (4:00-6:30pm, room 330A) Software Tutorials on Tuesday, October 24 (individual presentation time indicated): Other SAS-related talks (session time indicated): Sunday, October 22: Monday, October 23: ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua. Tunnel (source: StockSnap) Registration is now open for the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York 2018. Sign up now and get the best price. An evolutionary architecture supports guided, incremental change across multiple dimensions. our definition In 2010, Jez Humble and Dave Farley released Continuous Delivery, a collection of practices to enhance the engineering efficiency in software projects. They provided the mechanism for building and releasing software via automation and tools but not the structure of how to design evolvable software. Evolutionary architecture assumes these engineering practices ... Read More

Feed: BDN Daily Press Releases Discussions - Big Data News. Author: Andrei Macsin. Alation becomes the first data catalog to deliver governance for insight features supporting all Tableau customers, whether on desktops or servers REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Oct. 10, 2017 Alation Inc., the collaborative data company, today announced new ways in Tableau to make Governance for Insight simple, with support for Tableau’s new certification badge delivered in Tableau Server 10.4. Alation’s automated data catalog, with its ability to provide the simplest, most robust way to share curated and certified information for self-service analytics, will leverage the Tableau Certification Badge embedded in Tableau Visualizations ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sanjeev Jagtap. Microsoft Cognitive Services enables developers to augment the next generation of applications and enhance their ability to see, hear, speak, understand, and interpret needs using natural methods of communication. Think about the possibilities: being able to add vision and speech recognition, emotion and sentiment detection, language understanding, and search, to applications without having any data science expertise. Content Moderator is part of Cognitive Services allowing businesses to use machine-assisted moderation of text and images, augmented with human review tools. What are Content Moderator’s capabilities? Content Moderator helps track, flag, and assess potentially offensive ... Read More