Category: Events

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. One hundred thirty-four new packages made it to CRAN last December. Here are my “Top 40” picks in eight categories: Data, Genomics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Utilities, and Visualization. Data aurin v0.5.1: Implements an API for AURIN, Australia’s largest resource for accessing clean, integrated, spatially enabled and research-ready data on issues ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Joe Flasher. The AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program makes high-value, cloud-optimized datasets publicly available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). We work with data providers to democratize access to data by making it available to the public for analysis on AWS; to develop new cloud-native techniques, formats, and tools that lower the cost of working with data; and to encourage the development of communities that benefit from access to shared datasets. Our full list of publicly available datasets are on the Registry of Open Data on AWS. This quarter, we released 19 new or updated ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Anil Sakhi. By Anil Sakhi, Practice Director, Cloud & Digital, Wipro virtuadesk – WiproBy Tushar Agarwal, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect – AWS Wipro As workforces work remotely more than ever before, enterprises are increasingly looking at digital workspace as a solution that can help their teams work remotely in a secure manner. While employees look at flexibility of working from anywhere, InfoSec teams want to ensure sensitive data stays secure. Organizations from domains like financial services and pharmaceuticals have long embraced virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) technology for security and compliance reasons. With digital becoming ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Elaine Perales. By Elaine Perales, Manager, Global Programs at AWS The APN Ambassador Program features a vibrant worldwide community of technical experts, known as AWS Ambassadors, from AWS Partner Network (APN) Services and Software Partners. AWS Ambassadors are prominent leaders who are passionate about sharing their Amazon Web Services (AWS) technical expertise. They author blogs and whitepapers, create and deliver public presentations, and contribute to open source projects. Our Ambassadors evangelize AWS via social media and facilitate peer-to-peer learning by presenting at conferences, leading workshops, and hosting user group events. As a result of their ... Read More

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Jace McLean.  / What 2 Surveys Say About the Value of Centralized Data Back in October 2021, we took a look at some data we collected at Big Data London (BDL) related to companies’ data strategies. Since then, we’ve collected even more data on the subject. At Web Summit in November, we set up the same survey machine we took to BDL, and again asked attendees a few questions about their data environments. You can find the updated dashboard (aka the Swag Machine) toward the bottom of this post. But first, let’s zoom in on the same ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD. For many patients, the National Institutes of Health’s Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) is their last hope for finding information. The UDN is a network of doctors and researchers who specialize in diagnosing the tens of millions of people who live with rare diseases for years, or even decades, without a name for their symptoms. Clinicians and researchers of the UDN work together to identify and treat these mysterious conditions. It takes a medical village to discover and diagnose these rare diseases. To achieve their goal, the UDN is made up ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Myles Suer. January 20, 2022 — Several weeks ago (prior to the Omicron wave), I got to attend my first conference in roughly two years: Dataversity’s Data Quality and Information Quality Conference. Ryan Doupe, Chief Data Officer of American Fidelity, held a thought-provoking session that resonated with me. In Ryan’s “9-Step Process for Better Data Quality” he discussed the processes for generating data that business leaders consider trustworthy. To be clear, data quality is one of several types of data governance as defined by Gartner and the Data Governance Institute. Quality policies for data and analytics set ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. The Delhi Academy of Medical Sciences Pvt Ltd (DAMS) has been the leading institute for National Eligibility and Entrance Test postgraduate (NEET PG) preparation for doctors in India for the last two decades. More than half a million doctors and medical students have studied under the distinguished medical faculty at DAMS. During the COVID-19 pandemic, DAMS shifted its course delivery to its eMedicoz app, an education technology (EdTech) initiative powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that has reached more than 500,000 verified doctors and medical student subscribers since its ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Enzo. Emil Eifrem, CEO and Co-Founder of Neo4j, offers his advice from years of experience successfully leading the graph database industry.In case you missed his talk at the SaaStr Annual 2021 Conference, I’ll cover his key ideas for what it takes to become a category leading infrastructure company in the cloud. Virtuous Cycle As a Framework for SuccessIn his keynote, Emil starts by introducing his general framework for growth, which he views as a virtuous cycle. Here are the four stages of Emil’s virtuous cycle: Awareness: You want people to be excited ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Jigar Kapasi. By Jigar Kapasi, Sr. Cloud Architect – KyndrylBy Venkat Reddy, Cloud Automation Architect – KyndrylBy Koushik Mohan, Partner Solutions Architect – AWSBy Bala Ravilla, Partner Solutions Architect – AWS Kyndryl The CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark is a compliance standard for securing Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources, offering prescriptive instructions for configuring AWS services in accordance with industry best practices. In May 2018, the Center for Internet Security (CIS) published the most recent version of the benchmark (1.2.0) and AWS Security Hub implements this version. Customers using cloud resources on AWS can ... Read More