South Devon College is upgrading its learning management system from Moodle 1 to Moodle 2. It has undertaken a review of existing Moodle 1 courses and begun testing Moodle 2. From May to July, staff tested how Moodle 1 resources work in Moodle 2 and developed courses for the September 2011 term. Support is provided to help staff update courses to meet quality standards or recreate them in Moodle 2. The full upgrade will take place on August 1st after a testing period, with all upgraded and developed courses moving to the new Moodle 2 platform.
анализ психологического портрета целевой аудиторииEkaterina Gould
мы решили наиболее подробно изучать целевую аудиторию своих клиентов. Узкое сегментирование позволяет оптимизировать затраты на маркетинговый бюджет и повысить эффективность маркетинговых коммуникаций.
Six Sigma Predictive Decision Engine to provide a real time view of a process using statistical process control methodologies to look at changes to product quality and process variations and the real time impact such changes/variations may have on cost and revenue
Katniss Everdeen must survive mortal combat in the annual Hunger Games, where the Capitol requires the twelve districts to atone for insurrection by forcing tributes to fight to the death in a man-made fantasy setting. The film is an action/adventure science fiction directed by Gary Ross, starring Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen and Josh Hutcherson as Peeta as they are forced to fight for survival in the Hunger Games.
Big Data Expo - Friso van Vollenhoven - Vier Big Data TrendsGoDataDriven
Ontdek hoe de vier Big Data Trends - Behaviour, Real Time, Data Science en Open Source - de resultaten van een e-commerce platform kunnen vergroten. Aan de hand van praktische use cases laat Friso zien hoe je op een slimme manier voorspellende technieken kan inzetten.
South Devon College is upgrading its learning management system from Moodle 1 to Moodle 2. It has undertaken a review of existing Moodle 1 courses and begun testing Moodle 2. From May to July, staff tested how Moodle 1 resources work in Moodle 2 and developed courses for the September 2011 term. Support is provided to help staff update courses to meet quality standards or recreate them in Moodle 2. The full upgrade will take place on August 1st after a testing period, with all upgraded and developed courses moving to the new Moodle 2 platform.
анализ психологического портрета целевой аудиторииEkaterina Gould
мы решили наиболее подробно изучать целевую аудиторию своих клиентов. Узкое сегментирование позволяет оптимизировать затраты на маркетинговый бюджет и повысить эффективность маркетинговых коммуникаций.
Six Sigma Predictive Decision Engine to provide a real time view of a process using statistical process control methodologies to look at changes to product quality and process variations and the real time impact such changes/variations may have on cost and revenue
Katniss Everdeen must survive mortal combat in the annual Hunger Games, where the Capitol requires the twelve districts to atone for insurrection by forcing tributes to fight to the death in a man-made fantasy setting. The film is an action/adventure science fiction directed by Gary Ross, starring Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen and Josh Hutcherson as Peeta as they are forced to fight for survival in the Hunger Games.
Big Data Expo - Friso van Vollenhoven - Vier Big Data TrendsGoDataDriven
Ontdek hoe de vier Big Data Trends - Behaviour, Real Time, Data Science en Open Source - de resultaten van een e-commerce platform kunnen vergroten. Aan de hand van praktische use cases laat Friso zien hoe je op een slimme manier voorspellende technieken kan inzetten.
Meetup presentation Jonatan Samoocha, Thursday August 20th, Enschede
Jonatan was a (very) casual runner until 3y ago, when he decided without apparent reason to run a 10k race, 45m or faster… He found out that there are lots of “expert opinions”, some seem more “reasonable” or “sophisticated” than others. Jonatan ventured out with the plan for “beginning competitive” runners.
Being a data expert, Jonatan decided to collect data from sports app Strava, and start analyzing this, creating a machine learning model to recognize different exercise types including the difference between road cycling and mountain biking.
Moodle 2.0 features easier uploading and storage of files, activity tracking of learner progress, tracking of course completion and prerequisites, embedding of media like YouTube videos and adding interactive blocks, private file storage and integration with Mahara, and conditional activities to personalize learning pathways. The document outlines the top new features of Moodle 2.0 for simplifying content management and providing interactive, personalized learning experiences for students.
My degree thesis is about how social media are utilized in the workplace and how this technology may have impacts on company's wellness, on coworkers' relationships, on emotions, on performance and productivity, on private and working life, and what motivations are behind the use of social media at work.
The document outlines four key causes of the Great Depression:
1) Speculation on the stock market led many investors to buy stock on margin, meaning they borrowed money to purchase shares. When the market crashed in 1929, these investors lost everything and could not repay their loans.
2) The banking crisis occurred as banks had loaned money to stockbrokers and investors. When the stock market crashed and investors could not repay loans, stockbrokers and banks failed which caused widespread banking panic.
3) Overproduction in factories led to more goods being produced than consumers could purchase, causing an economic imbalance.
4) Underconsumption emerged as consumers found themselves in debt and unwilling to borrow more, decreasing demand. Farmers
Mariam López plans to graduate from school and university to earn a Bachelors degree in foreign languages specializing in legal translation. She then wants to start her own translation and tutoring company and have a beautiful family while owning a big house and traveling to Chile, Brazil, and the USA.
This document summarizes a student's photography project aimed at capturing Montreal's diversity. The student took 16 photos and wrote descriptions with the goal of representing diversity through different emotions, energies, cultures, and body languages seen in the city. One photo shows a concentrated woman reading in a public square who seemed carefree. The student realized people in Montreal appear relaxed. Overall, the project helped the student see how photos can illustrate the variety of personalities within diverse cities.
The document outlines the author's goals which include becoming a great student to pursue a career as an industrial engineer, saving money to travel to places like Turkey, Egypt and Dubai, owning a large mansion with a pool and jacuzzi, and having a personal jet to easily travel anywhere.
Competition and market strategies in the swiss fixed telephony marketRoberto Balmer
Fixed telephony has long been a fundamentally important market for European telecommunications operators. The liberalisation and the introduction of regulation in the end of the 1990s, however, allowed new entrants to compete with incumbents at the retail level. A rapid price decline and a decline in revenues followed. Increased retail competition eventually led a number of national regulators to deregulate this market. In 2013, however, many European countries (including Switzerland) continued to have partially binding retail price regulation in this market. More than a decade after liberalisation and the introduction of wholesale and retail price regulation, sufficient data is available to empirically measure the success of regulation and assess its continued necessity. This paper develops a market model based on a generalised version of the traditional dominant firm – competitive fringe model allowing for the incumbent a more competitive conduct than that of a dominant firm. A system of simultaneous equations is developed and direct estimation of the incumbent’s residual demand function is performed by instrumenting the market price by incumbent-specific cost shifting variables as well as other variables. Unlike earlier papers that assess market power in this market, this paper also adjusts the market model to ensure a sufficient level of cointegration and avoid spurious regression results. This necessitates the introduction of intertemporal effects. While the incumbent’s conduct cannot be directly estimated using this framework, the concrete estimates show that its residual demand is inelastic (long run price elasticity of residual demand of -0.12). Such a level of elasticity is shown to be only compatible with a profit maximising incumbent in the case of largely competitive conduct (conduct parameter below 0.12 and therefore close to zero). It is consequently found that the Swiss incumbent acted rather competitively in the fixed telephony retail market in the period under review (2004-2012) and that the (partial) retail price caps in place can no longer be justified on the basis of a lack of competition.
I Mapreduced a Neo store: Creating large Neo4j Databases with HadoopGoDataDriven
When exploring very large raw datasets containing massive interconnected networks, it is sometimes helpful to extract your data, or a subset thereof, into a graph database like Neo4j. This allows you to easily explore and visualize networked data to discover meaningful patterns.
When your graph has 100M+ nodes and 1000M+ edges, using the regular Neo4j import tools will make the import very time-intensive (as in many hours to days).
In this talk, I’ll show you how we used Hadoop to scale the creation of very large Neo4j databases by distributing the load across a cluster and how we solved problems like creating sequential row ids and position-dependent records using a distributed framework like Hadoop.
Meetup presentation Jonatan Samoocha, Thursday August 20th, Enschede
Jonatan was a (very) casual runner until 3y ago, when he decided without apparent reason to run a 10k race, 45m or faster… He found out that there are lots of “expert opinions”, some seem more “reasonable” or “sophisticated” than others. Jonatan ventured out with the plan for “beginning competitive” runners.
Being a data expert, Jonatan decided to collect data from sports app Strava, and start analyzing this, creating a machine learning model to recognize different exercise types including the difference between road cycling and mountain biking.
Moodle 2.0 features easier uploading and storage of files, activity tracking of learner progress, tracking of course completion and prerequisites, embedding of media like YouTube videos and adding interactive blocks, private file storage and integration with Mahara, and conditional activities to personalize learning pathways. The document outlines the top new features of Moodle 2.0 for simplifying content management and providing interactive, personalized learning experiences for students.
My degree thesis is about how social media are utilized in the workplace and how this technology may have impacts on company's wellness, on coworkers' relationships, on emotions, on performance and productivity, on private and working life, and what motivations are behind the use of social media at work.
The document outlines four key causes of the Great Depression:
1) Speculation on the stock market led many investors to buy stock on margin, meaning they borrowed money to purchase shares. When the market crashed in 1929, these investors lost everything and could not repay their loans.
2) The banking crisis occurred as banks had loaned money to stockbrokers and investors. When the stock market crashed and investors could not repay loans, stockbrokers and banks failed which caused widespread banking panic.
3) Overproduction in factories led to more goods being produced than consumers could purchase, causing an economic imbalance.
4) Underconsumption emerged as consumers found themselves in debt and unwilling to borrow more, decreasing demand. Farmers
Mariam López plans to graduate from school and university to earn a Bachelors degree in foreign languages specializing in legal translation. She then wants to start her own translation and tutoring company and have a beautiful family while owning a big house and traveling to Chile, Brazil, and the USA.
This document summarizes a student's photography project aimed at capturing Montreal's diversity. The student took 16 photos and wrote descriptions with the goal of representing diversity through different emotions, energies, cultures, and body languages seen in the city. One photo shows a concentrated woman reading in a public square who seemed carefree. The student realized people in Montreal appear relaxed. Overall, the project helped the student see how photos can illustrate the variety of personalities within diverse cities.
The document outlines the author's goals which include becoming a great student to pursue a career as an industrial engineer, saving money to travel to places like Turkey, Egypt and Dubai, owning a large mansion with a pool and jacuzzi, and having a personal jet to easily travel anywhere.
Competition and market strategies in the swiss fixed telephony marketRoberto Balmer
Fixed telephony has long been a fundamentally important market for European telecommunications operators. The liberalisation and the introduction of regulation in the end of the 1990s, however, allowed new entrants to compete with incumbents at the retail level. A rapid price decline and a decline in revenues followed. Increased retail competition eventually led a number of national regulators to deregulate this market. In 2013, however, many European countries (including Switzerland) continued to have partially binding retail price regulation in this market. More than a decade after liberalisation and the introduction of wholesale and retail price regulation, sufficient data is available to empirically measure the success of regulation and assess its continued necessity. This paper develops a market model based on a generalised version of the traditional dominant firm – competitive fringe model allowing for the incumbent a more competitive conduct than that of a dominant firm. A system of simultaneous equations is developed and direct estimation of the incumbent’s residual demand function is performed by instrumenting the market price by incumbent-specific cost shifting variables as well as other variables. Unlike earlier papers that assess market power in this market, this paper also adjusts the market model to ensure a sufficient level of cointegration and avoid spurious regression results. This necessitates the introduction of intertemporal effects. While the incumbent’s conduct cannot be directly estimated using this framework, the concrete estimates show that its residual demand is inelastic (long run price elasticity of residual demand of -0.12). Such a level of elasticity is shown to be only compatible with a profit maximising incumbent in the case of largely competitive conduct (conduct parameter below 0.12 and therefore close to zero). It is consequently found that the Swiss incumbent acted rather competitively in the fixed telephony retail market in the period under review (2004-2012) and that the (partial) retail price caps in place can no longer be justified on the basis of a lack of competition.
I Mapreduced a Neo store: Creating large Neo4j Databases with HadoopGoDataDriven
When exploring very large raw datasets containing massive interconnected networks, it is sometimes helpful to extract your data, or a subset thereof, into a graph database like Neo4j. This allows you to easily explore and visualize networked data to discover meaningful patterns.
When your graph has 100M+ nodes and 1000M+ edges, using the regular Neo4j import tools will make the import very time-intensive (as in many hours to days).
In this talk, I’ll show you how we used Hadoop to scale the creation of very large Neo4j databases by distributing the load across a cluster and how we solved problems like creating sequential row ids and position-dependent records using a distributed framework like Hadoop.