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Microservices - some practical applications

02/01/2019: Microservices – some practical applications In today’s world you need to be able to quickly build and scale large applications – and microservice architecture is a popular way to do that. It lets you break down an application into manageable chunks (services) that can be independently developed and deployed. This modular approach gives significant advantages: • The individual services can be worked on by separate teams – which speeds up implementation • Each one has its own encapsulated process and can be coded in a variety of languages – with popular ones being Java, Python, C# and Kotlin...

Python or R ?

20/12/2018: Python or R in tomorrow’s world? Python and R are popular programming languages extensively used by data scientists today. But what about tomorrow – which one is going to be more useful for you in the future? The aim of this article is to help you answer that question. We’ll discuss the two languages, look at some of the differences between them, and analyse the trends in usage and popularity. The case for Python According to the 2018 IEEE Spectrum rankings, Python is the top programming language in 2018. It’s based on C, and is closely followed in the rankings by C++ (2nd), Java (3rd)...

NLP and Data Science – are they related?

10/12/2018: Natural Language Processing is right at the cutting-edge of Artificial Intelligence, and the handling of data is critical to its success. Computers, as you know, thrive on standardised instructions and structured data – and natural language, with all its nuances and subtleties, is anything but that. It has been developed by humans over thousands of years and involves a complex range of words, sayings and idioms. Data science plays a key role in transforming that unstructured data so that computers can process it. So yes, NLP and data science are absolutely related. Let’s explore NLP in...

Deep Learning and Machine Learning

03/12/2018: Deep Learning and Machine Learning – some practical applications Machine Learning and its Deep Learning subset are evolving rapidly, and getting more accurate all the time. But what problems do they address and could they help your organisation? In this article we’ll explore some practical uses of the technologies and discuss emerging trends. Let’s look at DL first. Deep Learning Deep Learning is at the cutting edge of Machine Learning, and is delivering new levels of accuracy for many real-world problems such as: Speech recognition, natural language processing (NLP), natural language...

Data Analytics - practical usage

16/11/2018: This article is brought to you by JBI Training, the UK's leading technology training provider. Learn more about JBI's Power BI training courses including Power BI - Visualisation, Power BI - Dax Data, and Power BI - Beyond the Basics Data Analytics – the process of analysing data sets – enables organisations to make better-informed decisions. It’s a key focus in many businesses today, and covers a range of techniques and technologies including Business Intelligence (BI), Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning (ML) and Big Data Analytics. Let’s explore these in more detail, and look at...

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Containerized Applications - faster Development?

07/11/2018: Containerized applications are becoming very popular and it’s easy to understand why. They provide so many benefits to organisations, especially when it comes to bringing new applications to market. Let’s look at some of the benefits here, using Docker and Kubernetes as examples. Faster development Docker containers package up software and its dependencies into self-contained units that contain everything it needs to run (code, runtime, systems tools, system libraries and settings). This guarantees that the application will always run consistently and reliably – no matter what computing...

Great reasons to use Power BI Visualization

01/11/2018: This article is brought to you by JBI Training, the UK's leading technology training provider. Learn more about JBI's Power BI training courses including Power BI - Visualisation, Power BI - Dax Data, and Power BI - Beyond the Basics Having lots of business data is good. But to get the most from it, you have to be able to analyse it and communicate it to other users in your business. Microsoft’s Power BI is a powerful set of authoring tools to let you do that. It’s particularly good for creating reports and visualizations that allow you to explain and present business information. These...

React vs React Native ...

26/10/2018: React.js (also known as React or ReactJS) is a popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces. Originally developed by Facebook, it was heavily influenced by Facebook’s XHP, an HTML component framework for PHP. The technology has been open-sourced since 2013. React is used to create large, fast and scalable web applications. It uses Virtual DOM and a diffing algorithm for rendering, and allows developers to create applications where data that changes over time can be viewed without reloading the page. The diffing engine makes DOM manipulation extremely fast – faster even than...

Machine Learning – can it help your organisation?

26/10/2018: Many organisations today use Big Data to understand their customers, analyse trends and make smarter decisions. The challenge, of course, is that the sheer scale and complexity of the data can make it very difficult to analyse – especially in real time. That’s where Machine Learning comes in. It’s a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) that Data Scientists use for analysing data and making predictions from it. Machine Learning algorithms identify data patterns and make decisions with minimal human intervention. But more than that – they learn from the experience and get better over...

Kotlin - Latest Developments

06/08/2018: Kotlin develops quickly! Last year brought us many changes and possibilities. Both in the community and in the language. Let’s summarize them. First of all, the Kotlin community grows extremely fast and this growth accelerates. As Andrey Breslav - lead language designer of Kotlin - revealed in the podcast, in the year 2017 Kotlin team noted over 100 000 new Kotlin developers. When we talked in the middle of 2018, he revealed that they have already noted as many new developers in 2018. In the middle of the year! We can suspect that this growth is mainly due to Android community which not...

C# Language - Moving Forward

31/07/2018: Since the first release of .NET (in 2002) much has changed, both in the .NET Framework and the .NET languages. Notable language features added over the years include support for Generics and Lambdas. In terms of languages usage C# appears to be gaining dominance compared to VB.NET, although resulting in some organisations needing to port to C# as VB.NET developers become more scarce. In recent years there have been smaller, but important additions to the C# languages. The notably C# 6 feature of 'string interpolation' has made creating strings so much easier. Meanwhile C# 7 has added...

Agile & Scrum - Some thoughts...

31/07/2018: There have been some exciting developments in Agile over the past few years, especially around requirements and user stories. Story Mapping, a technique developed by Jeff Patton, allows the business and development teams to visualise the completeness of the Product Backlog, prioritise against business objectives, and to carve out minimal viable releases. Story maps work equally well at the Sprint level as they can be used to drive out goals for upcoming sprints because they naturally group related functionality into themes. If that wasn’t enough to pique your interest, they also provide...

Happy 3rd birthday PowerBI!!!

31/07/2018: This article is brought to you by JBI Training, the UK's leading technology training provider. Learn more about JBI's Power BI training courses including Power BI - Visualisation, Power BI - Dax Data, and Power BI - Beyond the Basics Happy 3rd birthday PowerBI!!! A note from a user/trainer... PowerBi, after 3 years from its initial release, is a mature and rich tool for data analysis and visualization. It is a tremendously powerful data modeling tool, which comes with a pretty and easy to use visualization capacity. In the last 6-8 months several interesting features have been introduced...

Power BI Bookmarks - a short training course

27/02/2018: This article is brought to you by JBI Training, the UK's leading technology training provider. Learn more about JBI's Power BI training courses including Power BI - Visualisation, Power BI - Dax Data, and Power BI - Beyond the Basics Mariella has put together this short briefing on the bookmarks functionality in Power BI... "I love it!" she says.. Bookmarks has been available as a preview feature since the October release and was enhanced in the January release. In order to use it you have to enable it from File -> Option -> Preview Once you have enabled it you will have it in the view...

How data analytics courses relate to millennials? | JBI

The relationship between data analytics courses and millennials

27/02/2018: This article is brought to you by JBI Training, the UK's leading technology training provider. Learn more about JBI's Power BI training courses including Power BI - Visualisation, Power BI - Dax Data, and Power BI - Beyond the Basics Our world is changing; this is hardly anything new. New startups emerge consistently, almost on a daily basis, each claiming to have the latest technological innovation. Day-to-day operations and practices change with the technological advancements, and our lives along with them. We start growing used to a certain kind of products - and a certain types of...

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