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Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. Data-driven business is booming. The dominant, driving force in business has arguably become a driving force in our daily lives for consumers and corporations alike.We now live in an age in which data is a more valuable resource than oil, and five of the world’s most valuable companies – Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft – all deal in data. However, just acknowledging data’s value won’t do. For a business to truly benefit from its information, a change in perspective is also required. With an additional $65 million in net income ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. In light of data’s prominence in modern business, organizations need to ensure they have a strong data foundation in place.The ascent of data’s value has been as steep as it is staggering. In 2016, it was suggested that more data would be created in 2017 than in the previous 5000 years of humanity. But what’s even more shocking is that the peak still not may not even be in sight. To put its value into context, the five most valuable businesses in the world all deal in data (Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Press blog. Author: Kim Spilker. Now through July 31, 2017, load your library with top-selling exam prep books and ebooks from Microsoft Press—the more you buy, the more you save! Use discount code EXAMPREP during checkout to save up to 55%. Choose from top-selling titles or shop by series: Exam Ref, MOS Study Guide, Training Guide, and Training Kit. Start shopping. Please note: Select Exam Ref titles can now be purchased with a Microsoft Official Practice Test fulfilled by MeasureUp. The EXAMPREP discount code offer is not valid on these tests and will only discount the book or ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Press blog. Author: Kim Spilker. Save 50%! Buy here. This offer expires on Sunday, June 25 at 7:00 AM GMT. By applying the principles in Adaptive Code, Second Edition, you can create code that adapts to new requirements and unforeseen scenarios without significant rework. Author Gary McLean Hall describes agile best practices, principles, and patterns for designing and writing code that can evolve more quickly and easily, with fewer errors, because it doesn’t impede change. This concise, undogmatic book bridges theory and practice, demonstrating its principles and patterns with working C# code examples. Learn more   Terms & ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Deepanshu Bhalla. R language is the world's most widely used programming language for statistical analysis, predictive modeling and data science. It's popularity is claimed in many recent surveys and studies. R programming language is getting powerful day by day as number of supported packages grows. Some of big IT companies such as Microsoft and IBM have also started developing packages on R and offering enterprise version of R. Table of Contents 50 R Tutorials for Beginners 30+ Data Science with R Tutorials Text Mining with R R Interview Questions and Answers ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: O'Reilly Media. Rope net. (source: Pixabay). JupyterCon is August 22-25, 2017, in New York City. Registration is now open. Paco Nathan leads the Learning group at O’Reilly Media. Known as a “player/coach” data scientist, Nathan led innovative data teams building ML apps at scale for several years and more recently was evangelist for Apache Spark, Apache Mesos, and Cascading. Below, Nathan shares his thoughts on the current and future state of Jupyter. He will also be speaking at JupyterCon, August 22-25, 2017, in New York City. 1. How has Jupyter changed the way you work? ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Press blog. Author: Kim Spilker. Save 50%! Buy here. This offer expires on Sunday, June 18 at 7:00 AM GMT. Dive into Windows Server 2016—and really put your Windows Server expertise to work. Focusing on Windows Server 2016’s most powerful and innovative features, this supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, tips, and workarounds—all you need to plan, implement, or manage Windows Server in enterprise, data center, cloud, and hybrid environments. Fully reflecting Windows Server new capabilities for the cloud-first era, Orin Thomas covers everything from Nano Server to Windows Server and Hyper-V Containers. You’ll discover how ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Press blog. Author: Kim Spilker. Save 50%! Buy here. This offer expires on Sunday, June 11 at 7:00 AM GMT. This Exam Ref is the official study guide for the new Microsoft 70-768 Developing SQL Data Models certification exam, the second of two exams required for MCSA: SQL 2016 Business Intelligence Development certification. Authored by Microsoft Data Platform MVP Stacia Varga, Exam Ref 70-768 Developing SQL Data Models offers professional-level preparation that helps candidates maximize their exam performance and sharpen their skills on the job. Learn more Terms & conditions Each week, on Sunday at 12:01 AM PST ... Read More

Feed: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team. Author: Denzil Ribeiro. Reviewed by: Dimitri Furman, Sanjay Mishra, Mike Weiner, Arvind Shyamsundar, Kun Cheng, Suresh Kandoth, John Hoang Background Some of the best practices when bulk inserting into a clustered Columnstore table are: Specifying a batch size close to 1048576 rows, or at least greater than 102400 rows, so that they land into compressed row groups directly. Using concurrent bulk loads if you want to reduce the time to load. For additional details, see the blog post titled Data Loading performance considerations with Clustered Columnstore indexes, specifically the Concurrent Loading section. Customer Scenario ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Jay Johnson. Utilizing a machine learning API to create a scalable model artifact pipeline Managing large, pre-trained predictive models across an organization and ensuring the same version is in production can be a challenge with the rapid pace of changes in the AI/machine learning space. Here, we have an approach that demonstrates how to automate building, storing, and deploying predictive models from a Remote Machine Learning Data Store hosted on Redis Labs. This approach is focused on showing how DevOps CI/CD artifact pipelines can be used to build and manage machine learning model artifacts with Jupyter ... Read More