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Transforming and inspecting data can be difficult. Packt Hub provides the latest news and updates around Data Analysis. We provide insights and news around major languages like Python and R for both Data Science and Data Analysis.

Cockroach Labs 2018 Cloud Report: AWS outperforms GCP hands down

While testing the features for CockroachDB 2.1, the team discovered that AWS offered 40% greater throughput than GCP. To understand the reason for this...

Google kills another product: Fusion tables

Yesterday, Google announced in a support page that they will ‘turn down’ Google Fusion tables. Google Fusion tables users got an email yesterday saying...
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Australia’s ACCC publishes a preliminary report recommending Google Facebook be regulated and monitored for...

The Australian competition and consumer commission (ACCC) have today published a 378-page preliminary report to make the Australian government and the public aware of...
Amazon Neptune, AWS’ cloud graph database, is now generally available

Amazon launches AWS Ground Station, a fully managed service for controlling satellite communications, downlink...

Yesterday, Amazon introduced a fully managed service, AWS Ground Station used for controlling satellite communications, downlink and processing satellite data. It is also used...
AWS makes Amazon Rekognition, its image recognition AI, available for Asia-Pacific developers

Amazon re:Invent 2018: AWS Snowball Edge comes with a GPU option and more computing...

Amazon re:Invent 2018 commenced yesterday at Las Vegas. This five-day event will comprise of various sessions, chalk talks, and hackathons covering AWS core topics. Amazon is...
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SatPy 0.10.0, python library for manipulating meteorological remote sensing data, released

SatPy is a python library used for reading and manipulating meteorological remote sensing data and writing them to various image/data file formats. Last week,...
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Facebook’s outgoing Head of communications and policy takes blame for hiring PR firm ‘Definers’...

On 4th November, the New York Times published a scathing report on Facebook that threw the tech giant under scrutiny for its leadership morales....
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Outage plagues Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp ahead of Black Friday Sale, throwing users and...

Yesterday, (on 20th November) Facebook and its subsidiary services- Instagram and Whatsapp- went down for users around UK, Europe, and the US. This is...
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BuzzFeed Report: Google’s sexual misconduct policy “does not apply retroactively to claims already compelled...

On 8th November, Google updated its sexual misconduct policy in response to the #GoogleWalkout that protested the discrimination, racism, and sexual harassment that employees...
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RedisGraph v1.0 released, benchmarking proves its 6-600 times faster than existing graph databases

RedisGraph was released in beta mode six months ago. On the 14th of November, RedisLabs announced the general availability of RedisGraph v1.0. RedisGraph is a...

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Advocacy groups push FTC to fine Facebook and break it up...

Lately, Facebook has been in news for its data breaches and issues related to its illegal data sharing. To add to its sorrows, yesterday,...

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