Category: Events

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Kurt A Cagle. Some twenty years ago, as I was starting out my own career as both a technologist and a journalist, I had an opportunity to go to a conference on the intersection of the two in San Francisco. The trip itself was eventful, at least in part because it happened, unbeknownst to planners of the conference itself, to coincide with a parade of nudists and nude bicyclists that happened to pass right in front of the hotel. Needless to say, the parade (if not the parade folk) ended up ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: J.D. Bean. Government, education, nonprofit, healthcare, and other public sector organizations process and store sensitive data including health records, tax data, personally identifiable information (PII), student data, criminal justice information, and financial data. These workloads carry stringent security and compliance requirements to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of this data both in transit and at rest. Best practices for protection of data in transit include enforcing appropriately defined encryption requirements, authenticating network communications, and implementing secure key and certificate management systems. In this post, I demonstrate a solution for deploying a highly available ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Nicholas Burden. By Nicholas Burden, Senior Technical Evangelist at TensorIoT As COVID-19 has swept across the globe, it has radically challenged businesses in every industry. TensorIoT has responded to these events by innovating to provide companies with powerful tools to drive success under extreme circumstances. To help safeguard workplaces from the pandemic, TensorIoT developed SafetyVisor, a suite of machine learning (ML) tools that can operate independently or in tandem with existing business infrastructure to monitor safety gear usage (like masks) and social distancing. SafetyVisor’s computer vision models are designed to work with your ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: George Harot. By George Harot, Product Marketing Director, Documentum – OpenTextBy Alex Dubovik, Global Technology Lead, Business Applications – AWS Large organizations are grappling with increasing volumes and variety of information. Managing the lifecycle of structured data and unstructured content, while simultaneously providing efficient access to it, has never been more challenging. Increased regulations, evolving content types, and new ways of working can make the task seem overwhelming. Information—from official company records like invoices and employment contracts to the ad-hoc, collaborative content used to engage customers and foster product innovation—fuels almost every business ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. We are excited to introduce the new AWS High Performance Computing (HPC) Competency featuring AWS Partners with deep technical expertise and proven customer success. These trusted AWS Partners provide technology offerings in areas such as high performance engineering simulation solvers, HPC workload management, high throughput computing, and foundational HPC technology. To help customers run the most compute-intensive workloads across industry verticals, Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers an integrated suite of services that provide everything needed to quickly and easily build and manage HPC clusters in the cloud. These workloads span the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Ray Rogers. People around the world rely on continuing education and upskilling courses to build on their existing knowledge and learn new, industry-specific skills sets. In Singapore, Community Centres (CCs) and Resident Committees (RCs) offer a variety of upskilling courses for residents. CCs and RCs are part of the network of the People’s Association (PA), a Singaporean statutory board with a mission to build and bridge communities. To improve CCs’ and RCs’ time-intensive, manual process of course administration, PA and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), launched a cloud-based web portal ... Read More

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Scott Resch.  / Domopalooza 2021: Top 3 Breakout Sessions in Each Track Whether you are a business decision-maker eager to learn how to better evaluate dashboards and reports, an IT professional interested in becoming a data integration expert, or, say, a data scientist or app developer anxious to generate more value for your organization, Domopalooza 2021 has got you covered.  With three distinct tracks—Data Literacy, Data Agility, and Intelligent Action—the Modern BI event of the year is sure to provide something for every registrant.  The problem is, it’s impossible to take in every breakout under your preferred track on conference afternoon ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Date: 01.03.2021 Tags:   postgresql    pgxn    sqitch    pgtap    citext    Category:   Interviews    Interviewed by: Andreas Scherbaum PostgreSQL is the World’s most advanced Open Source Relational Database. The interview series “PostgreSQL Person of the Week” presents the people who make the project what it is today. Read all interviews here. Please tell us about yourself, and where you are from. I’m a long-time open-source hacker in his early fifties. I’ve lived and worked in San Francisco, Portland OR, and now New York City. David E Wheeler How do you spend your free ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Karin Golde. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have come a long way, both in terms of adoption across the broader technology landscape and the insurance industry specifically. That said, there is still much more territory to cover, helping integral employees like claims adjusters do their jobs better, faster and easier.   Data science is currently being used to uncover insights that claims representatives wouldn’t have found otherwise, which can be extremely valuable. Data science steps in to identify patterns within massive amounts of data that are too large for humans ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Laura Swales. Virtual events will be a constant fixture on our calendars for the remainder of 2021, and are set to be just as popular once Covid calms down. The upside to this is the ability for speakers to present from anywhere in the world, as well as making events more accessible to attendees. Presenting to nothing but your screen can be a daunting experience – you have no audience to gauge how your talk is being received, and you don’t have a room full of people to help energise your talk – but this doesn’t need ... Read More