121
Fast Way to Load Data into PostgreSQL Using Python
From two minutes to less than half a second!
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 272 posts.
122
123
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless
The database is usually the most critical part of a software architecture and managing databases, especially relational ones, has never been easy. For this reason, we created Amazon Aurora Serverless, an auto-scaling version of Amazon Aurora that automatically starts up, shuts down and scales up or down based on your…
124
Data Still Dominates
I’m a huge proponent of designing your code around the data, rather than the other way around, and I think it’s one of the reasons git has been fairly successful… I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important…
125
Interpretable Machine Learning
Machine learning is part of our products, processes, and research. But computers usually don’t explain their predictions , which can cause many problems, ranging from trust issues to undetected bugs. This book is about making machine learning models and their decisions interpretable.
126
127
Attunity Data Leak: Vendor for half the Fortune 100 exposed terabyte of backups
Backups ensure data continuity, but they're also a surface of risk. See how Fortune 100 vendor Attunity exposed nearly a terabyte of internal backups.
128
129
Why we're ending support for MySQL
GitLab will be ending support for MySQL starting with our 12.1 release – here's why.
130
131
132
A Visual Intro to NumPy and Data Representation
Discussions: Hacker News (366 points, 21 comments), Reddit r/MachineLearning (256 points, 18 comments) Translations: Chinese 1, Chinese 2, Japanese, Korean The NumPy package is the workhorse of data analysis, machine learning, and scientific computing in the python ecosystem. It vastly simplifies manipulating and…
133
134
Data-as-a-Service: Running DaaS Companies
A complete guide to building and running a Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) company. Learn DaaS economics, market dynamics, data acquisition models, transformation, delivery, and how to achieve market dominance.
135
Arima Model – Guide to Time Series Forecasting in Python
Using ARIMA model, you can forecast a time series using the series past values. In this post, we build an optimal ARIMA model from scratch and extend it to Seasonal ARIMA (SARIMA) and SARIMAX models. You will also see how to build autoarima models in python
136
Wikipedia pageviews this year for each line of ‘We Didn't Start the Fire’
The modern relevancy of every line of 'We Didn't Start the Fire'
137
Hedge funds use satellite images to beat Wall Street
Berkeley Haas research finds there may be a dark side to the rise of “alternative data” in capital markets While Assoc. Prof. Panos Patatoukas was discussing Walmart in his Financial Information Analysis course last year, a student brought up the story of how company founder Sam Walton used to count cars in store…
138
139
140
The New York Times course to teach its reporters data skills is now open-source
And how your reporters can learn to love spreadsheets, too
141
142
Jepsen: TiDB 2.1.7
In 2010, Google engineers Daniel Peng & Frank Dabek published Large-scale Incremental Processing Using Distributed Transactions and Notifications , which described Percolator: a Google-internal database for random access transactional workloads where low latencies are not required. Percolator uses a global…
143
144
Battle testing data integrity verification with ZFS and Btrfs
In this article I share the results of a home-lab experiment in which I threw some different problems at ZFS, Btrfs and mdadm+dm-integrity in a RAID-5 setup.
145
Google to Acquire Looker
Google to acquire Looker, a unified platform for business intelligence, data applications, and embedded analytics.
146
Using machine learning to estimate lost demand in a fulfillment chain
How Instacart uses Machine Learning to spot lost demand in its fulfillment chain
147
148
149
Random Forest vs. Neural Network
Choosing between Random Forest and Neural Network depends on the data type. Random Forest suits tabular data, while Neural Network excels with images, audio, and text data.
150
Cracking open the black box of automated machine learning
ATMSeer is an interactive visualization tool for users to see and control algorithms and hyperparameters of machine-learning (AutoML) systems. The work was developed by researchers in the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and Zhejiang…