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TechTarget | June 11, 2018

The looming Microsoft-GitHub pairing confirms the company's rebirth as an open source friend. Data tools on the Azure cloud are part of the motivation. Microsoft has not always been about the developer. That is just its roots. At a time when software development was limited to people with access to mainframes, the company forged its early fortune on the backs of easily available developer tools. Some would say the developer focus dimmed at Microsoft with the departure of co-founder Bill Gate...

devclass.com/ | November 07, 2019

Machine learning and data science projects and increasingly active developer communities outside the US were some of the big drivers behind GitHub’s growth over the last year. The repo platform’s latest State of the Octoverse report puts the number of developers using the platform at more than 40 million, ten million of whom joined in the last year alone. It claims that the number of users creating their first repository was up by 44 percent in 2019 compared with the pre...

techhq.com | January 13, 2020

Transporting one million commuters each day, 92 percent of Dutch Railways Nederlandse Spoorwegen’s (NS) trains arrive on time, making it the third-most punctual rail service in the world, behind Switzerland and Japan. While certain delays are unavoidable results of severe weather or obstructions on the line, for exampleNS owes its industry-leading scheduling to big data analytics, thanks to thousands of sensors on its locomotives. As reported in TNW, NS has been leveraging the power of pre...

healthcareitnews.com | January 13, 2020

Healthcare providers are failing to integrate digital data platforms into their IT infrastructure, and and analytics into their clinical and operational workflows. This despite widespread availability of the technology and a definite need for it, given the demands of value-based reimbursement.Those were among the findings of a Black Book survey of 748 providers organizations, which found utilization of advanced analytics was described as "negligible" by a whopping 80% of respondents.Me...