Blogs or Expert Columns
How Computer Vision-Powered Insights Are Transforming Businesses Across Industries
How Computer Vision-Powered Insights Are Transforming Businesses Across Industries Computer Vision has been around for decades, but in recent years, the technology has come leaps and bounds. Computer vision is an application of artificial intelligence that is able to understand and interpret images and is now capable of identifying and reacting to images with near-perfect precision due to developments in neural network technology. In fact, the accuracy of the technology has gone from 50% to 99% in less than a decade. As computer vision becomes more advanced, its business applications grow – the global market size of [...]
What’s in a name (or a domain), you say?
Well, today is a new day for all of us! We crossed a chasm today, we rebranded ourselves as a Data and AI company. Our domain is now officially thirdeyedata.AI from thirdeyedata.io. When we had originally conceived of the ".IO" domain way back in 2016, there was a lot of thought behind it. IO for me meant "Input" and "Output" which further meant so many fundamental computer sciences topics that we deal with on a daily basis in our work lives: memory stacks - where data is pushed and popped data pipelines - where data is traveling in and [...]
Tabular Data Column Semantic Type Identification with Contrastive Deep Learning
Tabular Data Column Semantic Type Identification with Contrastive Deep Learning When data is aggregated from various sources in a dynamic environment where the data format might change without any notice, identifying the semantic type of columns in data is a challenging problem. In this post, the problem semantic type identification of data columns will be framed as a classification problem with manually engineered column features. Also, instead of using normal SoftMax label probabilities, we will be using contrastive learning. The solution is available in my OSS GitHub repo whakapai. It’s also available as a Python package called "torvik". Column [...]
Xamarin Apps
Xamarin Apps Xamarin is an open-source platform for building modern and performant applications for iOS, Android, and Windows with .NET. Xamarin is an abstraction layer that manages communication of shared code with underlying platform code. Xamarin runs in a managed environment that provides conveniences such as memory allocation and garbage collection. Xamarin enables developers to share an average of 90% of their application across platforms. This pattern allows developers to write all of their business logic in a single language (or reuse existing application code) but achieve native performance, look, and feel on each platform. Xamarin applications can be [...]
Watson Suite Services
Watson Suite Services Watson is AI from IBM. Created to form your business more intelligent and every worker your best worker. Watson features a range of advanced APIs, specialized tooling, and Software as a Service application. This implies that Watson is made for complex use cases and designed to integrate with platforms that experts utilize in their daily work. Ensuring seamless access to the knowledge you would like to form the right decisions. IBM Watson Services Watson Studio allows you to train, deploy, and manage your AI models, and prepare and analyze information during a single integrated environment. Watson [...]
Watson Analytics
Watson Analytics IBM Watson Analytics is a cloud application that tries to bring sophisticated data discovery and predictive analytics to a business user. The results are displayed in automatic visualisations that can easily be integrated in dashboards. By using natural language, a structured query is not necessary to find relationships and patterns in the data. When uploading data, IBM Watson Analytics will analyse the data and automatically propose a number of relevant questions that can be asked. Own questions can be asked as well, using natural language like What are the key influencers on revenue? Watson Analytics will answer [...]
VPC
VPC A virtual private cloud (VPC) is a secure, isolated private cloud hosted within a public cloud. VPC customers can run code, store data, host websites, and do anything else they could do in an ordinary private cloud, but the private cloud is hosted remotely by a public cloud provider. (Not all private clouds are hosted in this fashion.) VPCs combine the scalability and convenience of public cloud computing with the data isolation of private cloud computing. Imagine a public cloud as a crowded restaurant, and a virtual private cloud as a reserved table in that crowded restaurant. Even [...]
Trend Micro Deep Security
Trend Micro Deep Security Trend Micro Deep Security provides advanced server security for physical, virtual, and cloud servers. It protects enterprise applications and data from breaches and business disruptions without requiring emergency patching. This comprehensive, centrally managed platform helps you simplify security operations while enabling regulatory compliance and accelerating the ROI of virtualization and cloud projects. Deep Security consists of the following set of components that work together to provide protection: Deep Security Manager, the centralized web-based management console that administrators use to configure security policy and deploy protection to the enforcement components: the Deep Security Virtual Appliance and [...]
TIBCO Spotfire
TIBCO Spotfire TIBCO Spotfire® software is the most complete analytics solution on the market, enabling everyone to explore and visualize new discoveries in data through immersive dashboards and advanced analytics. Spotfire® analytics delivers capabilities at scale, including predictive analytics, geolocation analytics, and streaming analytics. And with Spotfire Mods, you can build tailored analytic apps rapidly, repeatedly, and to scale. Capabilities Immersive Visual Analytics With the Spotfire analytics platform, and the TIBCO Hyperconverged Analytics advantage, you get a seamless, single-pane-of-glass experience for visual analytics, data discovery, and point-and-click insights. Immerse yourself in both historic and real-time data, interactively: Drill down [...]
SQL Server
SQL Server SQL Server is a relational database management system, or RDBMS, developed and marketed by Microsoft. Similar to other RDBMS software, SQL Server is built on top of SQL, a standard programming language for interacting with relational databases. SQL Server is tied to Transact-SQL, or T-SQL, the Microsoft’s implementation of SQL that adds a set of proprietary programming constructs. SQL Server works exclusively on the Windows environment for more than 20 years. In 2016, Microsoft made it available on Linux. SQL Server 2017 became generally available in October 2016 that ran on both Windows and Linux. SQL Server [...]
SQL Scripts
SQL Scripts SQL, or Structured Query Language, which allows for the creation and editing of databases, is one of the easiest Web-based programming languages to understand. Still, many people don't bother learning the ins and outs of SQL because database managers such as phpMyAdmin allow you to create, edit and view tables without knowing any code.. Learning to write your own SQL scripts isn't too time consuming, and will prove to be enormously helpful when creating data-filled websites. Exploring SQL Syntax Learn proper SQL syntax. Traditionally, SQL commands are all uppercase, while the names of your tables and all [...]
SQL Database
SQL Database SQL databases have been used for decades — and they're still used today. Let us give a basic overview of what a SQL database is and share examples. What Is a SQL Database? SQL stands for Structured Query Language. It's used for relational databases. A SQL database is a collection of tables that stores a specific set of structured data. The SQL database has long been the tried and true workhorse of the backend enterprise and at the heart of everything we do in this electronic age. SQL was created in the early 1970s at IBM as [...]
Springboot Microservices
Springboot Microservices With the advent of cloud computing & containerization, microservices has taken the world by storm. Organizations are hunting for professionals with Microservices Architecture Training. Why is there a need for Spring Boot? Spring Boot enables building production-ready applications quickly and provides non-functional features: Embedded servers which are easy to deploy with the containers It helps in monitoring the multiples components It helps in configuring the components externally So, let us see what are the challenges with Microservices Architecture Challenges With Microservice Architectures While developing a number of smaller microservices might look easy, but there are number of [...]
Solr
Solr The ability to search is a key feature of most modern applications. While encompassing huge amounts of data, they need to allow the end-user to find what they’re searching for without delay. DevOps need to look beyond the traditional databases with complicated and non-user-friendly (even if smart and innovative) SQL query-based solutions to implement search functionality. That’s where Apache Solr comes in – to help smooth users’ search experience with features such as autosuggest in search fields, range or category browsing using facets, and more. So let’s dive in and “strip” Solr to the basics. Find out what [...]
SoftNas Cloud NAS
SoftNas Cloud NAS SoftNAS is a Linux-based virtual appliance that’s deployed on modern hypervisor-based systems. It runs as a virtual machine, providing a broad range of software-defined capabilities, including data performance, cost management, availability, control, and security. Buurst SoftNAS is a hybrid cloud data integration product, combining a software-defined, enterprise-class NAS virtual storage appliance, backups, and data movement; and data integration/replication for IT to manage and control data centrally. Customers save time and money while increasing efficiency. SoftNAS Cloud NAS supports the following platforms: Cloud computing platforms such as Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure On-premise Computing Infrastructure such as VMware [...]
Shiny Server
Shiny Server Shiny Server is an open source back end program that makes a big difference. It builds a web server specifically designed to host Shiny apps. With Shiny Server you can host your apps in a controlled environment, like inside your organization, so your Shiny app (and whatever data it needs) will never leave your control. You can also use Shiny Server to make your apps available across the Internet when you choose. Shiny Server will host each app at its own web address and automatically start the app when a user visits the address. When the user [...]
Responsive HTML
Responsive HTML Responsive design is an approach to web design that makes your web content adapt to the different screen and window sizes of a variety of devices. For example, your content might be separated into different columns on desktop screens, because they are wide enough to accommodate that design. If you separate your content into multiple columns on a mobile device, it will be hard for users to read and interact with. Responsive design makes it possible to deliver multiple, separate layouts of your content and design to different devices depending on screen size. It’s not enough for [...]
React
React React is a JavaScript-based UI development library. Facebook and an open-source developer community run it. Although React is a library rather than a language, it is widely used in web development. The library first appeared in May 2013 and is now one of the most commonly used frontend libraries for web development. React offers various extensions for entire application architectural support, such as Flux and React Native, beyond mere UI. Why React? React’s popularity today has eclipsed that of all other front-end development frameworks. Here is why: Easy creation of dynamic applications: React makes it easier to create [...]
R Server
R Server R is a programming language designed to solve statistical problems and Artificial Intelligence, with a remarkable capacity for graphic representation. It is open source, having a global community of users that nourish it with content. Microsoft quickly understood all these advantages, and has incorporated it into its range of analytical solutions, especially enriching the dimension concerning business deployments, among other factors. The Microsoft R family of products covers R Server (MRS), R Client (MRC) and R Open (MRO), all built on open source, and ordered from higher to lower features. MRS adds capabilities to the traditional open [...]
R
Introduction to R R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered under R. R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, …) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. The S language is [...]
Pytorch
What is PyTorch, and How Does It Work: All You Need to Know Since its inception by the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team in 2017, PyTorch has become a highly popular and efficient framework to create Deep Learning (DL) model. This open-source machine learning library is based on Torch and designed to provide greater flexibility and increased speed for deep neural network implementation. Currently, PyTorch is the most favored library for AI (Artificial Intelligence) researchers What Is PyTorch, and How Does It Work? PyTorch is an optimized Deep Learning tensor library based on Python and Torch and is mainly [...]
Flask
Flask What is Flask Python Flask is a web framework, it’s a Python module that lets you develop web applications easily. It’s has a small and easy-to-extend core: it’s a microframework that doesn’t include an ORM (Object Relational Manager) or such features. It does have many cool features like url routing, template engine. It is a WSGI web app framework. Related course: Python Flask: Create Web Apps with Flask What is a Web Framework? A Web Application Framework or a simply a Web Framework represents a collection of libraries and modules that enable web application developers to write applications [...]
Python
Python Python, one of the most popular programming languages in the world, has created everything from Netflix’s recommendation algorithm to the software that controls self-driving cars. Python is a general-purpose language, which means it’s designed to be used in a range of applications, including data science, software and web development, automation, and generally getting stuff done. Let’s take a closer look at what Python is, what it can do, and how you can start learning it. What is Python? Python is a computer programming language often used to build websites and software, automate tasks, and conduct data analysis. Python [...]
Prometheus
Prometheus Time Series Database Prometheus IT systems are not only growing in size and volume but in complexity as well. Thus, it’s only natural that more personnel is required to service these systems. Moreover, requirements for systems’ fault tolerance are increasing and require more attention from the service personnel along with a quick response to the restoration of the services’ operability. New and diverse ways of monitoring said parameters are emerging to improve the process of observing and tracking various systems’ operations. It’s challenging to track the performance of systems in terms of time series data since the number [...]
