Category: Books

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Bluecology blog. [This article was first published on Bluecology 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. ShareTweet My course notes for “Current approaches to Species Distribution Modelling in R “ for World Fisheries Congress 2021 are now free online. The course covers tidyverse and sf workflows for models, a beginners intro to modelling options and how to make spatial predictions. There’s also bonus tutorial on the course site ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon SageMaker announces a new set of capabilities that will enable interactive Spark based data processing from SageMaker Studio Notebooks. Amazon SageMaker Studio is the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML). SageMaker Studio provides a single, web-based visual interface where you can perform all ML development steps required to prepare data, as well as build, train, and deploy models. With a single click, data scientists and developers can quickly spin up Studio Notebooks to interactively explore datasets and build ML models. Starting today, data scientists and data engineers can visually browse, discover, and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Sam Malek. Customer engagement is evolving. Users want to ask and get answers to questions, learn about topics, complete tasks, and communicate via their preferred channel and at the time that is convenient for them. At the same time, public sector organizations are realizing that they need to innovate the way they support and engage their employees, users, and communities. They want to make information easier to access, improve user experience and engagement, expand their reach by supporting multiple communication channels, and improve efficiency and scalability through intelligent automation. Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) and ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Mike Barlow. Humans have wrestled with ethics for millennia. Each generation spawns a fresh batch of ethical dilemmas and then wonders how to deal with them. For this generation, social media has generated a vast set of new ethical challenges, which is unsurprising when you consider the degree of its influence. Social media has been linked to health risks in individuals and political violence in societies. Despite growing awareness of its potential for causing harm, social media has received what amounts to a free pass on unethical behavior. Learn faster. Dig deeper. See ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Aria Barnes. Augmented and virtual realities are two crucial components for businesses these days. Many business projects are seeing improvement due to AR and VR. Also, there are various training programs available to teach people how to use them. Here, we'll look at how AR and VR play an essential role in improving businesses. According to Statista, the augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality market is expected to reach $30.7 billion in 2021 and close to $300 billion by 2024. In 2021, the two technologies will impact your corporate environment in many ways ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Peter Lawrence. PathQL simplifies finding paths through the maze of facts within a KnowledgeGraph. Used within IntelligentGraph scripts it allows data analysis to be embedded within the graph, rather than requiring graph data to be exported to an analysis engine. Used with IntelligentGraph Jupyter Notebooks it provides powerful data analytics I would suggest that Google does not have its own intelligence. If I search for, say, ‘Arnold Schwarzenegger and Harvard’, Google will only suggest documents that contain BOTH Arnold Schwarzenegger and Harvard. I might be lucky that someone has digested these ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Michael Kevin Spencer. This is an Op-ed about the future of the internet and, while speculative, it's an example and an attempt to demonstrate how Artificial Intelligence at scale in a human would or could have disastrous impacts without AI regulation and AI ethics to protect us. GPT-3 stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer. As you likely already know GPT-3 is an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. It is the third-generation language prediction model in the GPT-n series (and the successor to GPT-2) created by Microsoft-funded ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Jeremy Dou. September 17, 2021 — “Alation is looking for a Growth Marketing Intern.” When I was browsing through my LinkedIn job feed, I spotted this opportunity… that later proved to be one to change my life. As someone extremely interested in marketing, I applied without hesitation. Compared to other companies to which I’d applied before, the application process and system were extremely simple: I just needed to upload my resume and fill out some basic information. Later, I received an email inviting me to send a ‘get-to-know-you’ video, in which I’d respond to two questions: ‘Why ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Shravan Vasishth. [This article was first published on Shravan Vasishth's Slog (Statistics 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. ShareTweet  Applications are now open for the sixth SMLP summer school, to be held in person (hopefully) in the Griebnitzsee campus of the University of Potsdam, Germany, 12-16 Sept 2022.Apply here: https://vasishth.github.io/smlp2022/ Related ShareTweet To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. Every enterprise application creates data, whether it consists of log messages, metrics, user activity, outgoing messages, or something else. Moving all of this data is just as important as the data itself. This book's updated second edition shows application architects, developers, and production engineers new to the Kafka open source streaming platform how to handle real-time data feeds. Additional chapters cover Kafka's AdminClient API, new security features, and tooling changes ... Read More