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John Myles White, self-described "statistics hacker" and co-author of "Machine Learning for Hackers" was interviewed recently by The Setup. In the interview, he describes his some of his go-to R packages for data science: Most of my work involves programming, so programming languages a... Jul. 17, 2012 06:38 PM EDT Reads: 105 |
In July we went launched a new WordPress website for Michigan State University. The website was designed for one of MSU’s long-term research projects, the Kellogg Biological Station Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Site, which is part of the LTER Network established by the Nationa... Jul. 16, 2012 08:22 AM EDT Reads: 421 |
We’ve never been before, but we’ve heard great things about O’Reilly’s open source conf in Portland, OR. Here are a few reasons why we’re excited to be going (and why you should be, too): 1. Some great sessions from some superstar AppDynamics employees: The Secret Diaries of a P... Jul. 12, 2012 09:49 AM EDT Reads: 230 |
Two new Kickstarter records have been set by a project whose popularity has exploded since it was added to the site. The Ouya video game console became the fastest project to raise a million bucks and raised the most money ever raised on Kickstarter in one day. The low-cost, Android-b... Jul. 12, 2012 03:01 AM EDT Reads: 369 |
In case you missed them, here are some articles from June of particular interest to R users. The FDA goes on the record that it's OK to use R for drug trials. A review of talks at the useR! 2012 conference. Using the negative binomial distribution to convert monthly fecundity into the ... Jul. 11, 2012 01:01 PM EDT Reads: 459 |
We recently announced the Customer Technology Preview (CTP) of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capabilities in Windows Azure. As part of that capability, Linux is one of the supported guest Operating Systems in the Virtual Machine (VM). ...(read more) Jul. 11, 2012 11:59 AM EDT Reads: 320 |
You know when you need to save PowerPoint file to other format like video, you can use PPT to video converter on Windows. But on Ubuntu, which is the most popular Linux distribution, how do you convert PowerPoint to video? That”s true that the PowerPoint to video converter is ori... Jul. 9, 2012 04:44 AM EDT Reads: 586 |
Helping businesses mobilise data from SharePoint, Dynamics AX, NAV and CRM or WebSphereLondon, 4 July 2012 - United Planet (www.unitedplanet.com), one of the leading developers of enterprise portal software in Europe, will be releasing its new Intrexx Business Adapter for OData later t... Jul. 4, 2012 06:57 AM EDT Reads: 1,052 |
loadUI is our free, Open Source tool that takes load testing to a new level. With a beautiful, intuitive drag-and-drop interface it allows you to create, configure, and redistribute your load tests... Jul. 3, 2012 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 324 |
Introduction One of the most popular protocols for regulating access to the Internet or any computer network is the Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (Radius). It is based on the AAA protocol and serves three purposes: authenticate users for network access; authorize them for ... Jul. 2, 2012 10:55 AM EDT Reads: 558 |
Tim Brown of Ideo is opening his Aspen Ideas Festival talk with a slide presentation called “From Newton to Design”. He says he’s early in thinking it through. He points to a problem in how we’ve thought about design, trained designers, and have practiced design. The great thing about ... Jun. 29, 2012 12:49 PM EDT Reads: 576 |
Boca Raton, FL, June 29, 2012 --(PR.com)-- A study of 184,000 visits to Long-Term Care Insurance shopping site LTC Tree found that one’s choice of computing platform may reveal more than just hotel buying habits. Macintosh users are 14.1% more likely to buy Long-Term Care covera... Jun. 29, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 624 |
You have very likely heard of SpaceX. They have captured our imagination and are being credited with setting us all into a new space era. SpaceX is partnering with NASA to bring us all into the next generation in space travel. I had an opportunity to talk with a SpaceX intern named Cha... Jun. 28, 2012 10:05 PM EDT Reads: 814 |
R''s glm function for generalized linear modeling is very powerful and flexible: it supports all of the standard model types (binomial/logistic, Gamma, Poisson, etc.) and in fact you can fit any distribution in the exponential family (with the family argument). But if you want to use i... Jun. 28, 2012 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 324 |
Recorded Futureis the first temporal analytics engine enabling web intelligence, pulling open source information from the Internet and indexing it for analysis by event type and time, thereby allowing users to tap into the predictive power of the web. Recorded Future has proven capabil... Jun. 28, 2012 04:19 PM EDT Reads: 581 |
As we have mentioned on our blog few weeks ago. Apache is still the most popular webserver in the world. Monitis is already helpful in monitoring Apache performance (e.g. you can check how to get metrics provided by Apache status module or speed of served static content), but in this a... Jun. 28, 2012 11:08 AM EDT Reads: 589 |
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Federal Bureau of Investigation plans to have its Next-Generation Identification system, which will include nationwide iris scan and facial imaging databases, ready for testing by 2014. More here. A milit... Jun. 27, 2012 03:02 PM EDT Reads: 361 |
Just Keep Learning – Episode 1 By: Steve McMaster I’m going to write a series of these blog posts based...Read More Jun. 25, 2012 10:16 AM EDT Reads: 317 |
Among other NoSQL databases there is a particularly nice one called REDIS. It’s an open source and advanced key-value store database. What is meant by ‘advanced’ here? Redis keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets on which you can run atomic operations. It also wo... Jun. 25, 2012 09:39 AM EDT Reads: 681 |
The latest update to open-source R, R 2.15.1, was released this morning. (You can grab sources now, and binary versions will hit the CRAN mirrors over the next couple of days.) In addition to several new features and bug fixes (including the new globalVariables function, which will be ... Jun. 22, 2012 01:36 PM EDT Reads: 369 |
This is the second article in our series of “how to” articles. “How to create an intranet” is a common search, and therefore a common business query, but before we go any further, it makes sense to first deal with the question “What is an intranet?”
What is an intranet?
No matter how m... Jun. 22, 2012 01:16 PM EDT Reads: 626 |
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In a poster (PDF) presented at the UseR 2012 conference, FDA biostatistician Jae Brodsky reiterated the FDA policy regarding software used to prepare submissions for drug approvals with clinical trials: Sponsors may use R in their submissions. The FDA does not endorse or require any pa... Jun. 21, 2012 11:40 AM EDT Reads: 327 |
IGEL will be the first thin client manufacturer to demonstrate a Microsoft RemoteFX-certified System on Chip multimedia thin client at Microsoft TechEd in Europe. With its ARM based technology and system on chip (SoC) design, including a Digital Signal Processor from Texas Instruments,... Jun. 21, 2012 05:51 AM EDT Reads: 769 |
Oracle RMAN (Recovery Manager) catalog database contains backup metadata for all enterprise wide Oracle databases. Each database backed up through RMAN needs connection to a central backup repository database. RMAN catalog is purged and maintained by removing obsolete backup records,... Jun. 20, 2012 07:37 AM EDT Reads: 1,001 |
Are you surprised? I start off most of my presentations/conferences with the following question: How many of you know that Intel ‘does’ Software? Very few hands usually go up, and that is exactly the challenge I have today in getting the … Continue reading → Jun. 19, 2012 10:44 AM EDT Reads: 1,094 |
A quick heads-up that I'll be hosting a live webinar this Wednesday (June 20) with my colleage Sue Ranney on the new Revolution R Enterprise 6. If you've never taken a look at Revolution R Enterprise and want to know it's different from open-source R, or just want to learn about the ne... Jun. 18, 2012 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 325 |
I love Amsterdam so much. I know the residents have their complaints — including that tourists love it too much — but it is such a physically beautiful city, and so full of life. So, I’m very happy to have 2 days here between jobs. Over the past 1.5 days, I have done nothing but [...]... Jun. 17, 2012 09:54 AM EDT Reads: 267 |
Introduction There is huge amount of documentation about CouchDB on the web. This article is not a complete guide to CouchDB. It’s just a very brief description of CouchDB with examples which could be useful if you decide to try cluster building. A little about CouchDB: Basically, Cou... Jun. 15, 2012 11:46 AM EDT Reads: 796 |
The advent of Cloud Service Brokers isn’t just about re-inventing the supply chain of IT services, although that of course is significant, but also because of the evolution in EA (Enterprise Architecture) design that it’s driving and the benefits this brings. Principally th... Jun. 15, 2012 07:26 AM EDT Reads: 730 |
The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full June edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. Revolution R Enterpri... Jun. 14, 2012 10:39 AM EDT Reads: 578 |
Another keystone foundation for secure GovCloud computing is Identity, which will also play a fundamental role in transforming the nature of eGovernment process itself. As the title suggests this distinction could be to iGovernment, to denote ‘Identity-enabled workflow’ sys... Jun. 14, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 508 |
Berlin, Germany, June 14, 2012 --(PR.com)-- win.rar GmbH and RARLAB are proud to present the public the final version of WinRAR 4.20. User will realize that the compression speed is up to three times higher than in previous versions and the improvements are valid for RAR and ZIP compr... Jun. 14, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 739 |
In case you missed them, here are some articles from May of particular interest to R users. R tops the annual KDNuggets Data Mining Software poll for the first time. R 2.15.1 is scheduled for June 22. (Revolution R Enterprise 6, released on June 5, is based on 2.14.2.) A tutorial uses ... Jun. 13, 2012 10:24 AM EDT Reads: 645 |
R, Hadoop and SQL are the focus of the cover story in the May 2012 issue of ComputerWorld Canada: Brian Bloom's article The Open-Source Answer to Big Data (also published in PCWorld) looks at the impact of open-source on enterprise IT architectures: Cost, flexibility and the availabili... Jun. 12, 2012 11:04 AM EDT Reads: 428 |
Fraunhofer SIT's criticism of the security of TeamDrive's cloud data storage is unjustifiedHamburg - June 12th 2012 - The ULD (Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein) has issued a statement confirming it upholds TeamDrive's privacy seal certification, a... Jun. 12, 2012 09:12 AM EDT Reads: 793 |
Former JBoss Executive to Drive Growth and Momentum in EuropeWOBURN, MA and CLOUD COMPUTING WORLD FORUM, LONDON, UK - June 12, 2012 - CloudBees, Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced that Michel Goossens, former vice president EMEA for Red Hat (... Jun. 12, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 819 |
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