Category: Events

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Howard M Wiener. A recent Wall Street Journal article, entitled Coronavirus Pandemic Helps Speed More CIOs Toward Business Operations Accountability, observed: “Large businesses are starting to hold their chief information officers accountable for the results of corporate-wide digital business operations, giving them much wider responsibility within the organization. . . Gartner, which last month released its annual list of top strategic predictions, said that by 2024, a quarter of the CIOs working in large, traditional enterprises will effectively become, as the research and advisory firm calls it, ‘COO by proxy.’” The ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Why R? Foundation. [This article was first published on Why R? Foundation, 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. On Thursday, December 3rd at 7 pm UTC, as part of the Why R? Webinar series, we have the honour to host Claus Ekstrøm and Anne Helby Petersen from the Department of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen. They will present a talk about reporteR (formerly known as dataMaid), ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Julia Silge and Jen Hecht. [This article was first published on RStudio 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. rstudio::global(2021) will be a very different conference from previous years. We will miss being together physically, but we are enthusiastic about planning this free, virtual event designed to be inclusive of R users in every time zone. Even though the conference itself is free, we are continuing our tradition ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Alayna Broderson. By Alayna Broderson, Sr. Partner Business Development Manager at AWS A year ago at AWS re:Invent 2019, we launched AWS Outposts, a fully managed service that offers the same Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure, APIs, tools, and services to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Since then, customers in many verticals—from Financial Services and Media & Entertainment to Industrial Automation and Healthcare & Life Sciences—have migrated workloads to AWS Outposts that are latency-sensitive, or require local data processing or data residency. For ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Dave McCann. By Dave McCann, VP of Migration, Marketplace, and Control Services at AWS At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we see customers increasingly turn to AWS Marketplace to modernize the software they use, and to transform their software supply chain. AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog with more than 7,000 software listings from over 1,700 independent software vendors (ISVs) that makes it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS. If you’re an ISV, we are dedicated to helping you simplify software procurement. We also want to help you ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Jobin George. By Jobin George, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Deepak Ram, Director, Strategic Solutions at InformaticaBy Louis-Noël Trapadoux, Principal Product Manager at Informatica Systems are growing more complex, cloud applications are growing in adoption, and cloud data lakes are being increasingly deployed. At the same time, organizations need to implement data cataloging solutions to provide data governance, data analytics, or pure metadata management. These cataloging solutions should be able to quickly start providing insights so they can drive adoption. This adoption would, in turn, provide additional insight into the data assets ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Maggie Carter. “I’m constantly confronted with the fact that there is a certain perception of me as someone who is dangerous and untrustworthy because I’ve been incarcerated. So we really have to put our energy into this work to uplift the communities that have been affected by systemic racism and mass incarceration and to allow people like myself to have a future and to dream that there could be something better for us and that we can fulfill our potential. We can’t do that without having a pathway to meaningful employment.” – Aedan Macdonald, ... Read More

Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. I will be speaking at two upcoming PASS SQLSaturday’s. These are free events that you can attend virtually: Azure Synapse Analytics: A Data Lakehouse 12/5/20, 1:10pm EST, PASS SQL Saturday Atlanta BI (info) (slides) Azure Synapse Analytics is Azure SQL Data Warehouse evolved: a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics into a single service. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources, at scale. Azure Synapse brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Sabina Goldberg. As schools and other educational institutions turn to remote learning solutions, organizations are reconsidering traditional IT infrastructure, aligning digital solutions to current learning and teaching models, and gearing towards the industry’s new measure of success: student engagement. A hybrid approach allows schools and districts to deploy both on-site and in the cloud, allowing staff and students to take advantage of productivity and collaboration services, to provide business and learning continuity. For more than a decade, West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District (WWP), which educates students in pre-K through 12th grade in the West ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Alex Dinnouti. Now more than ever, nonprofits have to optimize their costs and stretch their funds to maximize dollars invested in their mission. Often, nonprofits evaluate efficiency based on their operating expenses. For many, this means turning to the cloud to eliminate the upfront costs of buying servers and building data centers. With the cloud, nonprofits can better understand their bills, uncover foundational strategies for optimizing costs, set up budget alerts, and track costs and usage so they only spend on resources that they need. Understand your bill The first step to identify potential ... Read More