Ms SQL Girl
DECEMBER 3, 2014
I recently had an assignment to build a prototype for one of my clients, which involved in setting up KPIs. I then had a talk with a couple of people in my network to discuss how one could setup dynamic KPI thresholds. Narius Patel came up with a great idea of representing KPI status with image and using separate table to store the threshold values.
Data Science and Beyond
DECEMBER 28, 2014
In my summary of the Kaggle bulldozer price forecasting competition, I mentioned that part of my solution was based on stochastic gradient boosting. To reduce runtime, the number of boosting iterations was set by minimising the loss on the out-of-bag (OOB) samples, skipping trees where samples are in-bag. This approach was motivated by a bug in scikit-learn, where the OOB loss estimate was calculated on the in-bag samples, meaning that it always improved (and thus was useless for the purpose of
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Darkhorse
DECEMBER 22, 2014
We've done a few critique/redesigns of graphics on the site, but now its time to shine that sometimes unflattering light back on ourselves. While going through some materials I came across a graphic much like this one. The chart is clean, with axes lightened so the data is in the foreground, and the series direct labelled. Unfortunately it is not very effective at conveying much beyond "There is lots of pillaging.
Wise Analytics
DECEMBER 22, 2014
As I start some preparatory work for 2015 initiatives, I have noticed that many analytics vendors are starting to shift their views of SMBs and the needs of midmarket companies in general. When solution providers first started developing their market strategy and developing analytics related solutions for SMBs, their products took similar shape. They were less expensive, less robust, with a smaller number of relevant capabilities.
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Nutanix
DECEMBER 24, 2014
I am honored to report that we received over 80 detailed Nutanix Technology Professionals (NTC) Program applications.
Data Science and Beyond
DECEMBER 14, 2014
In previous posts about getting traction for my Bandcamp recommendations project (BCRecommender), I mentioned search engine optimisation (SEO) as one of the promising traction channels. Unfortunately, early efforts yielded negligible traffic – most new visitors came from referrals from blogs and Twitter. It turns out that the problem was not showing up for the SEO game: most of BCRecommender’s pages were blocked for crawling via robots.txt because I was worried that search engines (=Google
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Ms SQL Girl
DECEMBER 23, 2014
It is Christmas Eve here in Australia now! Wow! I’d like to say thank you to all my readers, my twitter followers and most of all #SQLFamily (whom quite a few of them are now becoming my absolutely dear friends). This year has been truly a blast! Thank you for being part of my SQL and Data/BI journey. All the best and here’s something that I put together (last minute) using Power Map.
Wise Analytics
DECEMBER 19, 2014
As BI use matures within the organization, the way in which it is being applied is also changing. Organizations are looking for more strategic ways to deliver analytical insight and make sure that the right people have direct access to the information they need. Part of this includes the increasing adoption of embedding analytics within operations. At the same time, organizations are taking advantage of embedded BI to provide customer facing analytics and added services by leveraging the data th
Ms SQL Girl
DECEMBER 3, 2014
I recently had an assignment to build a prototype for one of my clients, which involved in setting up KPIs. I then had a talk with a couple of people in my network to discuss how one could setup dynamic KPI thresholds. Narius Patel came up with a great idea of representing KPI status with image and using separate table to store the threshold values.
Nutanix
DECEMBER 17, 2014
Over the last five years, we have made significant progress in our journey, thanks to our incredible ecosystem of believers – the community of employees, customers, partners, investors, analysts, and technology advocates, who have been core to our success, every step of the way.
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
Nutanix
DECEMBER 11, 2014
The global community has spoken with thousands of votes to determine the Grand Prize recipient of Web-Scale Wish, and we are thrilled to announce that CLASS Ltd., has garnered the most community votes and will receive a Web-Scale Datacenter Makeover in 2015!
Nutanix
DECEMBER 10, 2014
Through the community-driven Web-Scale Wish Datacenter Makeover Project, Nutanix is gifting over $500,000 in web-scale technology to deserving non-profit organizations.
Nutanix
DECEMBER 9, 2014
Our SecDL’s defense in-depth model enables automated testing for security during development as well as threat modeling to assess and mitigate customer risk from code changes.
Nutanix
DECEMBER 5, 2014
As you know, the goal of the Web-Scale Wish Datacenter Makeover Project is to gift more than $500,000 in web-scale technology to deserving non-profit organizations.
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Nutanix
DECEMBER 2, 2014
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the weekly NEXT Community Podcast! This 30-min informal and unscripted discussion about web-scale IT covers news, current events, and the industry updates that YOU need to know about.
Nutanix
DECEMBER 2, 2014
You are most likely aware that, as of July 14, 2015, Microsoft will no longer support Windows Server 2003. If you have one of the estimated 24 million servers running Windows Server 2003, you should be concerned.
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