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Bonus downloads: How to make color-coded thematic maps in R
These files will help you follow our R language tutorial, "How to create maps with R in 10 (fairly) easy steps."
What quantum computing could do for a marketer's data and information management
The digital era has been hard enough to come to grips with. But at its heart the term ‘digital’ is rooted in a very simple binary code of ones and zeros.
GE adds edge analytics, AI capabilities to Predix industrial IoT suite
To solidify its position at the center of the industrial IoT, GE Digital is going to the edge.
Oracle leverages AI to push enterprise apps as users move to cloud
Ratcheting up the pace of enhancements to its software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) offerings, Oracle is riding the wave of companies that are ditching on-premises enterprise apps and heading to the cloud.
Informatica brings AI to GDPR compliance, data governance
Companies that are scrambling to comply with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have a new tool to consider: Informatica's Compliance Data Lake, unveiled this week at the Strata Data Conference in New York....
Nvidia gets broad support for cutting-edge Volta GPUs in the data center
Data center workloads for AI, graphics rendering, high-performance computing and business intelligence are getting a boost as a Who's Who of the world's biggest server makers and cloud providers snap up Nvidia's Volta-based Tesla V100...
SAP wants to embrace all your data stores with Data Hub
If data warehouses are for tidiness freaks -- information packaged into neat inferences, sorted and stacked, the rest discarded -- and data lakes are for hoarders -- tip everything in, you never know what might be useful -- then SAP's...
Beginner's guide to R: Painless data visualization
From no-frills graphics to adding color and labeling your data, here's what you need to know.
Beginner's guide to R: Easy ways to do basic data analysis
From getting subsets of your data to pulling basic stats from your data frame, here's what you need to know.
Beginner's guide to R: Introduction
In part 1 of our hands-on series, we explain why R's a great choice for basic data analysis and visualization work, and how to get started.
Beginner's guide to R: Get your data into R
Whether it's local or from the Web, there are several ways to get data into R for further work.
Oracle's Hurd, AT&T's Donovan on their massive cloud migration deal
In this Q&A, AT&T Communications CEO John Donovan and Oracle CEO Mark Hurd talk about their deal to work together to migrate thousands of databases to the cloud
Winery uses custom-built mobile apps to consolidate insights
E&J Gallo Winery built mobile platforms for scheduling, irrigation management and real-time reporting to help improve grape cultivation and harvesting practices.
Enterprises can put Oracle's entire public cloud in the data center
While Amazon is raking in a good deal of the money spent by public-cloud users, Oracle is doubling down on its hybrid-cloud strategy, appealing to enterprises that want to put data and applications behind their firewall while taking...
Why Elon Musk says 50% of all cars will be electric by 2027
IT has the best handle on what it will take to do a massive electric vehicle (EV) rollout.
Are you sharing more data with Google than you have to?
A group of Swiss researchers has developed an approach to limit how much of your data you need to share. And they are offering it to companies for free.
R Consortium survey seeks input from R users
Have opinions about R? The Consortium wants to hear from you.
Enterprise software fuels IT spending as CIOs become builders again
Companies are refreshing enterprise software platforms for the cloud era and stitching together new systems to support digital business projects, triggering an uptick in IT spending worldwide.
Better question, but even harder to answer
It's the mid-1990s, and this boss asks a pilot fish to create a few revenue charts for him. Fish -- who's been a programmer and a data analyst -- is glad to oblige. Then comes the big question: How long will it take?
We’re undervaluing collaboration
In our interdependent age, everything depends on a series of collaborations, and yet collaboration remains largely unmeasured and unmanaged.