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Local, instructor-led live Big Data training courses start with an introduction to elemental concepts of Big Data, then progress into the programming languages and methodologies used to perform Data Analysis. Tools and infrastructure for enabling Big Data storage, Distributed Processing, and Scalability are discussed, compared and implemented in demo practice sessions. Big Data training is available as "onsite live training" or "remote live training". Onsite live training can be carried out locally on customer premises in the UAE or in NobleProg corporate training centers in the UAE. Remote live training is carried out by way of an interactive, remote desktop. NobleProg -- Your Local Training Provider
What did you like the most about the training?: Detailed on each tool.
Amber Mehrotra - NIIT Limited
Course:Hadoop Administration
The fact that all the data and software was ready to use on an already prepared VM, provided by the trainer in external disks.
Course:Hadoop for Developers and Administrators
The trainer was so knowledgeable and included areas I was interested in.
Mohamed Salama
Course:Data Mining & Machine Learning with R
Very tailored to needs.
Yashan Wang
Course:Data Mining with R
Richard is very calm and methodical, with an analytic insight - exactly the qualities needed to present this sort of course.
Kieran Mac Kenna
Course:Spark for Developers
I like the exercises done.
Nour Assaf
Course:Data Mining and Analysis
The hands-on exercise and the trainer capacity to explain complex topics in simple terms.
youssef chamoun
Course:Data Mining and Analysis
The information given was interesting and the best part was towards the end when we were provided with Data from Durex and worked on Data we are familiar with and perform operations to get results.
Jessica Chaar
Course:Data Mining and Analysis
I mostly liked the trainer giving real live Examples.
Simon Hahn
Course:Administrator Training for Apache Hadoop
I genuinely enjoyed the big competences of Trainer.
Grzegorz Gorski
Course:Administrator Training for Apache Hadoop
I genuinely enjoyed the many hands-on sessions.
Jacek Pieczątka
Course:Administrator Training for Apache Hadoop
I thought that the information was interesting.
Allison May
Course:Data Visualization
I really appreciated that Jeff utilized data and examples that were applicable to education data. He made it interesting and interactive.
Carol Wells Bazzichi
Course:Data Visualization
Learning about all the chart types and what they are used for. Learning the value of cluttering. Learning about the methods to show time data.
Susan Williams
Course:Data Visualization
Trainer was enthusiastic.
Diane Lucas
Course:Data Visualization
I really liked the content / Instructor.
Craig Roberson
Course:Data Visualization
I am a hands-on learner and this was something that he did a lot of.
Lisa Comfort
Course:Data Visualization
I liked the examples.
Peter Coleman
Course:Data Visualization
I generally was benefit from the examples.
peter coleman
Course:Data Visualization
I enjoyed the good real world examples, reviews of existing reports.
Ronald Parrish
Course:Data Visualization
I enjoyed the interaction and facts gained / learn.
Monna Liza Mengullo
Course:Data Protection
I was benefit from the discussion and exchange of ideas.
Course:Data Protection
I generally liked all.
Marjorie Pepito
Course:Data Protection
I really was benefit from the willingness of the trainer to share more.
Balaram Chandra Paul
Course:A practical introduction to Data Analysis and Big Data
We know a lot more about the whole environment.
John Kidd
Course:Spark for Developers
The trainer made the class interesting and entertaining which helps quite a bit with all day training.
Ryan Speelman
Course:Spark for Developers
I think the trainer had an excellent style of combining humor and real life stories to make the subjects at hand very approachable. I would highly recommend this professor in the future.
Course:Spark for Developers
Ernesto did a great job explaining the high level concepts of using Spark and its various modules.
Michael Nemerouf
Course:Spark for Developers
He was very personable and worked hard to provide a relevant experience. It was the course content that was the issue.
Course:IoT (Internet of Things) for Entrepreneurs, Managers and Investors
I was benefit from some new and interesting ideas. Meeting and interacting with other attendees.
Course:IoT (Internet of Things) for Entrepreneurs, Managers and Investors
It covered a broad range of information.
Continental AG / Abteilung: CF IT Finance
Course:A practical introduction to Data Analysis and Big Data
I generally was benefit from the presentation of technologies.
Continental AG / Abteilung: CF IT Finance
Course:A practical introduction to Data Analysis and Big Data
Overall the Content was good.
Sameer Rohadia
Course:A practical introduction to Data Analysis and Big Data
I generally enjoyed the Hardtop Eco system.
Adnan Rafiq
Course:Big Data Business Intelligence for Govt. Agencies
Michael the trainer is very knowledgeable and skillful about the subject of Big Data and R. He is very flexible and quickly customize the training meeting clients' need. He is also very capable to solve technical and subject matter problems on the go. Fantastic and professional training!.
Xiaoyuan Geng - Ottawa Research and Development Center, Science Technology Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Course:Programming with Big Data in R
I really enjoyed the introduction of new packages.
Ottawa Research and Development Center, Science Technology Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Course:Programming with Big Data in R
The tutor, Mr. Michael An, interacted with the audience very well, the instruction was clear. The tutor also go extent to add more information based on the requests from the students during the training.
Ottawa Research and Development Center, Science Technology Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Course:Programming with Big Data in R
The subject matter and the pace were perfect.
Tim - Ottawa Research and Development Center, Science Technology Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Course:Programming with Big Data in R
The example and training material were sufficient and made it easy to understand what you are doing.
Teboho Makenete
Course:Data Science for Big Data Analytics
It was very hands-on, we spent half the time actually doing things in Clouded/Hardtop, running different commands, checking the system, and so on. The extra materials (books, websites, etc. .) were really appreciated, we will have to continue to learn. The installations were quite fun, and very handy, the cluster setup from scratch was really good.
Course:Administrator Training for Apache Hadoop
Richard's training style kept it interesting, the real world examples used helped to drive the concepts home.
Jamie Martin-Royle - NBrown Group
Course:From Data to Decision with Big Data and Predictive Analytics
The content, as I found it very interesting and think it would help me in my final year at University.
Krishan Mistry - NBrown Group
Course:From Data to Decision with Big Data and Predictive Analytics
The hands-on exercises are good for us to appreciate the capability and features of Talent.
Iverson Associates Sdn Bhd
Course:Talend Open Studio for Data Integration
I mostly enjoyed the hands-on Training.
Muraly Muniandy - Iverson Associates Sdn Bhd
Course:Talend Open Studio for Data Integration
I liked the trainer's knowledge and flexibility with discussions slightly off course topic.
Iverson Associates Sdn Bhd
Course:Talend Open Studio for Data Integration
I liked the vast knowledge and experience on topic.
Iverson Associates Sdn Bhd
Course:Talend Open Studio for Data Integration
Lot of hands-on exercises.
Course:Administrator Training for Apache Hadoop
Ambari management tool. Ability to discuss practical Hadoop experiences from other business case than telecom.
Course:Administrator Training for Apache Hadoop
Applicable scenarios and cases
zhaopeng liu - Fmr
Course:Spark for Developers
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case analysis
国栋 张
Course:Spark for Developers
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all parts of this session
Eric Han - Fmr
Course:Spark for Developers
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The use of dataintegration
Waldemar Wisniewski
Course:Pentaho Business Intelligence (PBI) - moduły raportowe
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trainer's knowledge, available equipment
Mariusz Moskal
Course:Pentaho Business Intelligence (PBI) - moduły raportowe
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Examples enriched with real data and scenarios useful in everyday practice
Krzysztof Świątczak
Course:Pentaho Business Intelligence (PBI) - moduły raportowe
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Example exercises; Practical work experience sharing
Course:Data Vault: Building a Scalable Data Warehouse
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The teacher's knowledge of the data warehouse is comprehensive, and he praises it!
Course:Data Vault: Building a Scalable Data Warehouse
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The teacher explained in detail and discussed the atmosphere
Course:Data Vault: Building a Scalable Data Warehouse
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I liked the methodology expected by Jorge
Experian Colombia S.A
Course:Spark para Desarrolladores
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Other additional topics that were suggested were covered
German Alonso Durango Colmenares
Course:Capacitación de Administrador para Apache Hadoop
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Nothing special.
Arkadiusz Nowakowski - Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach
Course:Apache Spark
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|IoT ( Internet of Things) for Entrepreneurs, Managers and Investors
|21 hours
|Unlike other technologies, IoT is far more complex encompassing almost every branch of core Engineering-Mechanical, Electronics, Firmware, Middleware, Cloud, Analytics and Mobile. For each of its engineering layers, there are aspects of economics, standards, regulations and evolving state of the art. This is for the firs time, a modest course is offered to cover all of these critical aspects of IoT Engineering.
An advanced training program covering the current state of the art in Internet of Things
Cuts across multiple technology domains to develop awareness of an IoT system and its components and how it can help businesses and organizations.
Live demo of model IoT applications to showcase practical IoT deployments across different industry domains, such as Industrial IoT, Smart Cities, Retail, Travel & Transportation and use cases around connected devices & things
Target Audience
Managers responsible for business and operational processes within their respective organizations and want to know how to harness IoT to make their systems and processes more efficient.
Entrepreneurs and Investors who are looking to build new ventures and want to develop a better understanding of the IoT technology landscape to see how they can leverage it in an effective manner.
Estimates for Internet of Things or IoT market value are massive, since by definition the IoT is an integrated and diffused layer of devices, sensors, and computing power that overlays entire consumer, business-to-business, and government industries. The IoT will account for an increasingly huge number of connections: 1.9 billion devices today, and 9 billion by 2018. That year, it will be roughly equal to the number of smartphones, smart TVs, tablets, wearable computers, and PCs combined.
In the consumer space, many products and services have already crossed over into the IoT, including kitchen and home appliances, parking, RFID, lighting and heating products, and a number of applications in Industrial Internet.
However, the underlying technologies of IoT are nothing new as M2M communication existed since the birth of Internet. However what changed in last couple of years is the emergence of number of inexpensive wireless technologies added by overwhelming adaptation of smart phones and Tablet in every home. Explosive growth of mobile devices led to present demand of IoT.
Due to unbounded opportunities in IoT business, a large number of small and medium sized entrepreneurs jumped on a bandwagon of IoT gold rush. Also due to emergence of open source electronics and IoT platform, cost of development of IoT system and further managing its sizable production is increasingly affordable. Existing electronic product owners are experiencing pressure to integrate their device with Internet or Mobile app.
This training is intended for a technology and business review of an emerging industry so that IoT enthusiasts/entrepreneurs can grasp the basics of IoT technology and business.
Course Objective
Main objective of the course is to introduce emerging technological options, platforms and case studies of IoT implementation in home & city automation (smart homes and cities), Industrial Internet, healthcare, Govt., Mobile Cellular and other areas.
Basic introduction of all the elements of IoT-Mechanical, Electronics/sensor platform, Wireless and wireline protocols, Mobile to Electronics integration, Mobile to enterprise integration, Data-analytics and Total control plane
M2M Wireless protocols for IoT- WiFi, Zigbee/Zwave, Bluetooth, ANT+ : When and where to use which one?
Mobile/Desktop/Web app- for registration, data acquisition and control –Available M2M data acquisition platform for IoT-–Xively, Omega and NovoTech, etc.
Security issues and security solutions for IoT
Open source/commercial electronics platform for IoT-Raspberry Pi, Arduino , ArmMbedLPC etc
Open source /commercial enterprise cloud platform for AWS-IoT apps, Azure -IOT, Watson-IOT cloud in addition to other minor IoT clouds
Studies of business and technology of some of the common IoT devices like Home automation, Smoke alarm, vehicles, military, home health etc.
|Matlab for Predictive Analytics
|21 hours
|Predictive analytics is the process of using data analytics to make predictions about the future. This process uses data along with data mining, statistics, and machine learning techniques to create a predictive model for forecasting future events.
In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to use Matlab to build predictive models and apply them to large sample data sets to predict future events based on the data.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Create predictive models to analyze patterns in historical and transactional data
- Use predictive modeling to identify risks and opportunities
- Build mathematical models that capture important trends
- Use data from devices and business systems to reduce waste, save time, or cut costs
- Developers
- Engineers
- Domain experts
Format of the course
- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice
|HBase for Developers
|21 hours
|This course introduces HBase – a NoSQL store on top of Hadoop. The course is intended for developers who will be using HBase to develop applications, and administrators who will manage HBase clusters.
We will walk a developer through HBase architecture and data modelling and application development on HBase. It will also discuss using MapReduce with HBase, and some administration topics, related to performance optimization. The course is very hands-on with lots of lab exercises.
Duration : 3 days
Audience : Developers & Administrators
|Advanced Hadoop for Developers
|21 hours
|Apache Hadoop is one of the most popular frameworks for processing Big Data on clusters of servers. This course delves into data management in HDFS, advanced Pig, Hive, and HBase. These advanced programming techniques will be beneficial to experienced Hadoop developers.
Audience: developers
Duration: three days
Format: lectures (50%) and hands-on labs (50%).
|Hadoop for Developers (4 days)
|28 hours
|Apache Hadoop is the most popular framework for processing Big Data on clusters of servers. This course will introduce a developer to various components (HDFS, MapReduce, Pig, Hive and HBase) Hadoop ecosystem.
|Administrator Training for Apache Hadoop
|35 hours
The course is intended for IT specialists looking for a solution to store and process large data sets in a distributed system environment
Deep knowledge on Hadoop cluster administration.
|Hadoop Administration
|21 hours
|The course is dedicated to IT specialists that are looking for a solution to store and process large data sets in distributed system environment
Course goal:
Getting knowledge regarding Hadoop cluster administration
|Model MapReduce and Apache Hadoop
|14 hours
|The course is intended for IT specialist that works with the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers.
|Big Data Analytics in Health
|21 hours
|Big data analytics involves the process of examining large amounts of varied data sets in order to uncover correlations, hidden patterns, and other useful insights.
The health industry has massive amounts of complex heterogeneous medical and clinical data. Applying big data analytics on health data presents huge potential in deriving insights for improving delivery of healthcare. However, the enormity of these datasets poses great challenges in analyses and practical applications to a clinical environment.
In this instructor-led, live training (remote), participants will learn how to perform big data analytics in health as they step through a series of hands-on live-lab exercises.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Install and configure big data analytics tools such as Hadoop MapReduce and Spark
- Understand the characteristics of medical data
- Apply big data techniques to deal with medical data
- Study big data systems and algorithms in the context of health applications
- Developers
- Data Scientists
Format of the Course
- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice.
- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.
|Big Data and its Management Process
|14 hours
|Objective : This training course aims at helping attendees understand why Big Data is changing our lives and how it is altering the way businesses see us as consumers. Indeed, users of big data in businesses find that big data unleashes a wealth of information and insights which translate to higher profits, reduced costs, and less risk. However, the downside was frustration sometimes when putting too much emphasis on individual technologies and not enough focus on the pillars of big data management.
Attendees will learn during this course how to manage the big data using its three pillars of data integration, data governance and data security in order to turn big data into real business value. Different exercices conducted on a case study of customer management will help attendees to better understand the underlying processes.
|Big Data - Data Science
|14 hours
|This classroom based training session will explore Big Data. Delegates will have computer based examples and case study exercises to undertake with relevant big data tools
|AI Awareness for Telecom
|14 hours
|AI is a collection of technologies for building intelligent systems capable of understanding data and the activities surrounding the data to make "intelligent decisions". For Telecom providers, building applications and services that make use of AI could open the door for improved operations and servicing in areas such as maintenance and network optimization.
In this course we examine the various technologies that make up AI and the skill sets required to put them to use. Throughout the course, we examine AI's specific applications within the Telecom industry.
- Network engineers
- Network operations personnel
- Telecom technical managers
Format of the course
- Part lecture, part discussion, hands-on exercises
|Big Data Business Intelligence for Criminal Intelligence Analysis
|35 hours
|Advances in technologies and the increasing amount of information are transforming how law enforcement is conducted. The challenges that Big Data pose are nearly as daunting as Big Data's promise. Storing data efficiently is one of these challenges; effectively analyzing it is another.
In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn the mindset with which to approach Big Data technologies, assess their impact on existing processes and policies, and implement these technologies for the purpose of identifying criminal activity and preventing crime. Case studies from law enforcement organizations around the world will be examined to gain insights on their adoption approaches, challenges and results.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Combine Big Data technology with traditional data gathering processes to piece together a story during an investigation
- Implement industrial big data storage and processing solutions for data analysis
- Prepare a proposal for the adoption of the most adequate tools and processes for enabling a data-driven approach to criminal investigation
- Law Enforcement specialists with a technical background
Format of the course
- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice
|Big Data Analytics for Telecom Regulators
|16 hours
|To meet compliance of the regulators, CSPs (Communication service providers) can tap into Big
Data Analytics which not only help them to meet compliance but within the scope of same
project they can increase customer satisfaction and thus reduce the churn. In fact since
compliance is related to Quality of service tied to a contract, any initiative towards meeting the
compliance, will improve the "competitive edge" of the CSPs. Therefore, it is important that
Regulators should be able to advise/guide a set of Big Data analytic practice for CSPs that will
be of mutual benefit between the regulators and CSPs.
2 days of course : 8 modules, 2 hours each = 16 hours
|Data Vault: Building a Scalable Data Warehouse
|28 hours
|Data vault modeling is a database modeling technique that provides long-term historical storage of data that originates from multiple sources. A data vault stores a single version of the facts, or "all the data, all the time". Its flexible, scalable, consistent and adaptable design encompasses the best aspects of 3rd normal form (3NF) and star schema.
In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to build a Data Vault.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Understand the architecture and design concepts behind Data Vault 2.0, and its interaction with Big Data, NoSQL and AI.
- Use data vaulting techniques to enable auditing, tracing, and inspection of historical data in a data warehouse
- Develop a consistent and repeatable ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process
- Build and deploy highly scalable and repeatable warehouses
- Data modelers
- Data warehousing specialist
- Business Intelligence specialists
- Data engineers
- Database administrators
Format of the course
- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice
|Big Data Business Intelligence for Govt. Agencies
|35 hours
|Advances in technologies and the increasing amount of information are transforming how business is conducted in many industries, including government. Government data generation and digital archiving rates are on the rise due to the rapid growth of mobile devices and applications, smart sensors and devices, cloud computing solutions, and citizen-facing portals. As digital information expands and becomes more complex, information management, processing, storage, security, and disposition become more complex as well. New capture, search, discovery, and analysis tools are helping organizations gain insights from their unstructured data. The government market is at a tipping point, realizing that information is a strategic asset, and government needs to protect, leverage, and analyze both structured and unstructured information to better serve and meet mission requirements. As government leaders strive to evolve data-driven organizations to successfully accomplish mission, they are laying the groundwork to correlate dependencies across events, people, processes, and information.
High-value government solutions will be created from a mashup of the most disruptive technologies:
- Mobile devices and applications
- Cloud services
- Social business technologies and networking
- Big Data and analytics
IDC predicts that by 2020, the IT industry will reach $5 trillion, approximately $1.7 trillion larger than today, and that 80% of the industry's growth will be driven by these 3rd Platform technologies. In the long term, these technologies will be key tools for dealing with the complexity of increased digital information. Big Data is one of the intelligent industry solutions and allows government to make better decisions by taking action based on patterns revealed by analyzing large volumes of data — related and unrelated, structured and unstructured.
But accomplishing these feats takes far more than simply accumulating massive quantities of data."Making sense of thesevolumes of Big Datarequires cutting-edge tools and technologies that can analyze and extract useful knowledge from vast and diverse streams of information," Tom Kalil and Fen Zhao of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy wrote in a post on the OSTP Blog.
The White House took a step toward helping agencies find these technologies when it established the National Big Data Research and Development Initiative in 2012. The initiative included more than $200 million to make the most of the explosion of Big Data and the tools needed to analyze it.
The challenges that Big Data poses are nearly as daunting as its promise is encouraging. Storing data efficiently is one of these challenges. As always, budgets are tight, so agencies must minimize the per-megabyte price of storage and keep the data within easy access so that users can get it when they want it and how they need it. Backing up massive quantities of data heightens the challenge.
Analyzing the data effectively is another major challenge. Many agencies employ commercial tools that enable them to sift through the mountains of data, spotting trends that can help them operate more efficiently. (A recent study by MeriTalk found that federal IT executives think Big Data could help agencies save more than $500 billion while also fulfilling mission objectives.).
Custom-developed Big Data tools also are allowing agencies to address the need to analyze their data. For example, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Computational Data Analytics Group has made its Piranha data analytics system available to other agencies. The system has helped medical researchers find a link that can alert doctors to aortic aneurysms before they strike. It's also used for more mundane tasks, such as sifting through résumés to connect job candidates with hiring managers.
|Vespa: Serving Large-Scale Data in Real-Time
|14 hours
|Vespa is an open-source big data processing and serving engine created by Yahoo. It is used to respond to user queries, make recommendations, and provide personalized content and advertisements in real-time.
This instructor-led, live training introduces the challenges of serving large-scale data and walks participants through the creation of an application that can compute responses to user requests, over large datasets in real-time.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Use Vespa to quickly compute data (store, search, rank, organize) at serving time while a user waits
- Implement Vespa into existing applications involving feature search, recommendations, and personalization
- Integrate and deploy Vespa with existing big data systems such as Hadoop and Storm.
- Developers
Format of the course
- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice
|Pentaho Data Integration Fundamentals
|21 hours
|Pentaho Data Integration is an open-source data integration tool for defining jobs and data transformations.
In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to use Pentaho Data Integration's powerful ETL capabilities and rich GUI to manage an entire big data lifecycle, maximizing the value of data to the organization.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Create, preview, and run basic data transformations containing steps and hops
- Configure and secure the Pentaho Enterprise Repository
- Harness disparate sources of data and generate a single, unified version of the truth in an analytics-ready format.
- Provide results to third-part applications for further processing
- Data Analyst
- ETL developers
Format of the course
- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice
|Talend Open Studio for Data Integration
|28 hours
|Talend Open Studio for Data Integration is an open-source data integration product used to combine, convert and update data in various locations across a business.
In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to use the Talend ETL tool to carry out data transformation, data extraction, and connectivity with Hadoop, Hive, and Pig.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to
- Explain the concepts behind ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) and propagation
- Define ETL methods and ETL tools to connect with Hadoop
- Efficiently amass, retrieve, digest, consume, transform and shape big data in accordance to business requirements
- Upload to and extract large records from Hadoop (optional), Hive (optional), and NoSQL databases
- Business intelligence professionals
- Project managers
- Database professionals
- SQL Developers
- ETL Developers
- Solution architects
- Data architects
- Data warehousing professionals
- System administrators and integrators
Format of the course
- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice
- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.
|A Practical Introduction to Data Analysis and Big Data
|35 hours
|Participants who complete this training will gain a practical, real-world understanding of Big Data and its related technologies, methodologies and tools.
Participants will have the opportunity to put this knowledge into practice through hands-on exercises. Group interaction and instructor feedback make up an important component of the class.
The course starts with an introduction to elemental concepts of Big Data, then progresses into the programming languages and methodologies used to perform Data Analysis. Finally, we discuss the tools and infrastructure that enable Big Data storage, Distributed Processing, and Scalability.
- Developers / programmers
- IT consultants
Format of the course
- Part lecture, part discussion, hands-on practice and implementation, occasional quizing to measure progress.
|Data Science for Big Data Analytics
|35 hours
|Big data is data sets that are so voluminous and complex that traditional data processing application software are inadequate to deal with them. Big data challenges include capturing data, data storage, data analysis, search, sharing, transfer, visualization, querying, updating and information privacy.
|Analytics Domain Expertise
|7 hours
|This course is part of the Data Scientist skill set (Domain: Analytics Domain Expertise).
|Big Data & Database Systems Fundamentals
|14 hours
|The course is part of the Data Scientist skill set (Domain: Data and Technology).
|Big Data Storage Solution - NoSQL
|14 hours
|When traditional storage technologies don't handle the amount of data you need to store there are hundereds of alternatives. This course try to guide the participants what are alternatives for storing and analyzing Big Data and what are theirs pros and cons.
This course is mostly focused on discussion and presentation of solutions, though hands-on exercises are available on demand.
|Data Shrinkage for Government
|14 hours
|The objective of the course is to enable participants to gain a mastery of the fundamentals of data shrinkage for government.
|Hadoop Administration on MapR
|28 hours
This course is intended to demystify big data/hadoop technology and to show it is not difficult to understand.
|Programming with Big Data in R
|21 hours
|Big Data is a term that refers to solutions destined for storing and processing large data sets. Developed by Google initially, these Big Data solutions have evolved and inspired other similar projects, many of which are available as open-source. R is a popular programming language in the financial industry.
|From Data to Decision with Big Data and Predictive Analytics
|21 hours
If you try to make sense out of the data you have access to or want to analyse unstructured data available on the net (like Twitter, Linked in, etc...) this course is for you.
It is mostly aimed at decision makers and people who need to choose what data is worth collecting and what is worth analyzing.
It is not aimed at people configuring the solution, those people will benefit from the big picture though.
Delivery Mode
During the course delegates will be presented with working examples of mostly open source technologies.
Short lectures will be followed by presentation and simple exercises by the participants
Content and Software used
All software used is updated each time the course is run, so we check the newest versions possible.
It covers the process from obtaining, formatting, processing and analysing the data, to explain how to automate decision making process with machine learning.
|Big Data Business Intelligence for Telecom and Communication Service Providers
|35 hours
Communications service providers (CSP) are facing pressure to reduce costs and maximize average revenue per user (ARPU), while ensuring an excellent customer experience, but data volumes keep growing. Global mobile data traffic will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 78 percent to 2016, reaching 10.8 exabytes per month.
Meanwhile, CSPs are generating large volumes of data, including call detail records (CDR), network data and customer data. Companies that fully exploit this data gain a competitive edge. According to a recent survey by The Economist Intelligence Unit, companies that use data-directed decision-making enjoy a 5-6% boost in productivity. Yet 53% of companies leverage only half of their valuable data, and one-fourth of respondents noted that vast quantities of useful data go untapped. The data volumes are so high that manual analysis is impossible, and most legacy software systems can't keep up, resulting in valuable data being discarded or ignored.
With Big Data & Analytics' high-speed, scalable big data software, CSPs can mine all their data for better decision making in less time. Different Big Data products and techniques provide an end-to-end software platform for collecting, preparing, analyzing and presenting insights from big data. Application areas include network performance monitoring, fraud detection, customer churn detection and credit risk analysis. Big Data & Analytics products scale to handle terabytes of data but implementation of such tools need new kind of cloud based database system like Hadoop or massive scale parallel computing processor ( KPU etc.)
This course work on Big Data BI for Telco covers all the emerging new areas in which CSPs are investing for productivity gain and opening up new business revenue stream. The course will provide a complete 360 degree over view of Big Data BI in Telco so that decision makers and managers can have a very wide and comprehensive overview of possibilities of Big Data BI in Telco for productivity and revenue gain.
Course objectives
Main objective of the course is to introduce new Big Data business intelligence techniques in 4 sectors of Telecom Business (Marketing/Sales, Network Operation, Financial operation and Customer Relation Management). Students will be introduced to following:
- Introduction to Big Data-what is 4Vs (volume, velocity, variety and veracity) in Big Data- Generation, extraction and management from Telco perspective
- How Big Data analytic differs from legacy data analytic
- In-house justification of Big Data -Telco perspective
- Introduction to Hadoop Ecosystem- familiarity with all Hadoop tools like Hive, Pig, SPARC –when and how they are used to solve Big Data problem
- How Big Data is extracted to analyze for analytics tool-how Business Analysis's can reduce their pain points of collection and analysis of data through integrated Hadoop dashboard approach
- Basic introduction of Insight analytics, visualization analytics and predictive analytics for Telco
- Customer Churn analytic and Big Data-how Big Data analytic can reduce customer churn and customer dissatisfaction in Telco-case studies
- Network failure and service failure analytics from Network meta-data and IPDR
- Financial analysis-fraud, wastage and ROI estimation from sales and operational data
- Customer acquisition problem-Target marketing, customer segmentation and cross-sale from sales data
- Introduction and summary of all Big Data analytic products and where they fit into Telco analytic space
- Conclusion-how to take step-by-step approach to introduce Big Data Business Intelligence in your organization
Target Audience
- Network operation, Financial Managers, CRM managers and top IT managers in Telco CIO office.
- Business Analysts in Telco
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One day I was thinking about why some people don't like to write. I know everyone won't love it as much as I do, but still, I was curious. So, I decided to do a search on the psychology of writing. Lo and behold, there was actually a book, "The Psychology of Writing" by Ronald T. Kellogg, Professor of Psychology at St. Louis University.
I went to the library to check it out, but I couldn't bring it home with me because it was a reference book. And they only had one copy. Then, I went to Amazon and learned that the prices ranged from $45 to $125. Geez, I just wanted to borrow it for my research! So, I did the next best thing. I found Mr. Kellogg, whom I had never met before, and made a big request.
The subject of my message read: "You don't know me but I have a huge request." I told him about the one book at the library and the prices at Amazon, and then I asked him for a copy of his book. He said yes with the stipulation that I put it in general circulation at the Chicago Public Library. DEAL!
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True. And false. Many consumers who live without cellphones and the Internet fit the stereotypes of low-income, older people with no connection to the digital realm. But there are millions of others who don't fit that description, and marketers who ignore these demographically desirable Luddites are leaving money on the table.
Consider: Nearly half of cellphone-less adults are age 18 to 44, and one-fifth of Net-less adults have household income of at least $50,000, according to NOP World's Roper Reports.
Cellphones, introduced in 1983, and the Internet, where the first Web ad appeared in 1994, in quick time became mainstream technologies. Yet they're far from ubiquitous. America unplugged is a big space, and marketers who look will find appealing prospects.
To be clear, there is truth to the stereotypes that digital Luddites are old and poor-or, more accurately, that they are old and/or poor. Luddite demos tend to skew older, have less income and are less educated. Marketers, of course, can make good money selling to older consumers and to low-income households.
Just as older and poorer people tend to be less digital, younger, more affluent and educated people tend to be more wired. Roper sibling Mediamark Research Inc. says nine of 10 people with household income of $150,000-plus have a cellphone; 96% of college graduates have access to the Internet; and the average cellphone user is 43 years old, 11 years younger than the average cell-less soul. There's nothing new about the idea that younger people with money are going to embrace technology.
Yet there are opportunities beyond the obvious. "For the `non-users,' the easiest throwaway answer is [they are] always older and poorer. But that's not always the case. There are other pockets, either from lifestyle or just fear of technology," said Cary Silvers, VP of NOP World Consumer. "There's an apprehension about technology even among some young people and some higher-educated, upper-income" consumers.
We're talking about the Luddite next door, someone who has all demos of the wired neighbors while choosing to live outside the digital domain.
How to reach them? "The key element is back to traditional media," said Mr. Silvers. He offers one other crucial tool: Word of mouth.
Luddites may not be connected by technology, but Mr. Silvers said that doesn't make them shut-ins or recluses. They consume TV, radio and print, and even if they resist technology, "they are open somewhere else"-to peers, hobby groups, organizations. The key, he said, is for marketers to embrace media and personal networks-say, the PTA-that the Luddites trust. "You've got to dig deep for these pockets out there," Mr. Silvers said.
Digital Luddites, true to form, are skeptical about and sometimes scared of technology (see data, lower right and below). They also score themselves as lower achievers. When Roper asked consumers to rank their level of achievement on "the road to the American dream," those without cellphones and Internet came in below the average American. More cell-less and Net-less consumers didn't even put themselves on the road, saying they had no American dream. Of course, their Luddite state may be coincidental; lack of success probably relates more to their below-average income and education.
Where are the opportunities? It's easier to find pockets among the cell-less than the Net-free. That partly reflects a bigger pool: 28% of American adults-60 million-have no wireless phone, while 21%-45 million people-have no access to the Internet at home or at work, according to MRI.
Pockets become apparent when you look within the uncelled. For example, 14% of cell-less adults have college or post-graduate degrees, according to MRI. That's eight million people. Nearly 7 million adults with household incomes above $75,000 function without wireless. Almost 4 million young adults age 18-24 somehow manage to live without cellphones; 8 million homes with teenage kids have no cell.
To be sure, the majority of Americans now have cellphones, and the opportunities to use wireless for marketing and promotions are wide open. But fixate on that opportunity, and you will miss millions of consumers who may fit your demographic.
Are the wireless-less set old and poor? To a degree. MRI research shows six in 10 adults with household income below $20,000 do without cell service. Fair enough-but two-thirds of the cell-less make more than that. Similarly, Roper found two-thirds of cell-less adults are below age 60. The assumption that the cell-less are poor and/or old-an assumption heard repeatedly during the reporting of this story-only goes so far.
Pockets are harder to find among the Net-less simply because the Internet's reach is so deep across the most sought-after demographics. MRI found four in five American adults have access to the Internet.
That leaves one in five. Poor and old? Poor, yes: Adults with income below $20,000 account for 40% of Net-less adults.
Education, not age
For age, it's not the same old story. Roper shows adults age 60+ account for less than one-third of the Net-less, and the percentage of people in their early 60s with Internet access is about the same as it is for twentysomethings. In the non-Internet population, there are more adults below age 40 than there are age 60 and above.
The digital divide on the Net has more to do with education than age. Fewer than half of adults lacking a high-school diploma have access to the Net, according to MRI; 97% of people with post-graduate degrees have Internet access.
But there are opportunities to reach the one in five American adults with no connection to the Internet. By MRI's count, that group of 45 million includes nearly a half million people in top management, about 1 million newlyweds and nearly 5 million people with household incomes above $60,000. That's a load of Luddites-and a lost opportunity for marketers who assume everyone is on the Net.


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As an owner of a pedigree Border Terrier, the thought may already, or at some time in the future, cross your mind to breed from your much loved pet. Breeding Border's is not a hobby it can be demanding, complicated and is not something the average pet owner should dabble with. Many people have thought of breeding their Border's as a means of making money. One school of thought many pet owners have is to buy a dog and a bitch and then let them get on with it. Please believe us - it is not as simple as that.
The beloved family pet is perhaps not the best candidate to continue the purebred strain of Border's. Just for a moment consider the time and money involved just to get your Border bitch into breeding condition; finding a suitable Stud Dog and the costs associated with that i.e. Stud Fees; Travelling; Fuel etc; to look after her throughout her pregnancy and the possible Vets Fees associated with that, both during and after whelping; the huge demand placed on you personally in terms of time and finance, involved in looking after both her and her puppies This includes such things as feeding, grooming, worming, vaccination, registration fees, vets fees etc. etc. until they are old enough to go to their new homes.
What a heart breaking and tragic experience to loose an entire litter because the owner did not recognize a breach birth or could not identify the signals of a struggling bitch. Even worse, what if you were to lose your bitch whelping have you considered the risks and how will you cope with the heartache associated with your loss?
If you are going to breed your Border you need to think things through carefully and way up all the pros and cons. These pages have been produced purely to give you an insight. You will need to learn a whole lot more and be aware of the risks associated with breeding!
Many a reason is given for breeding a litter, a number of scenarios are printed below put yourself in the situation and consider the reasons more importantly answer them honestly.
"I could make a lot of money." - Do you realise the expense involved in such items as advertising, vet bills, stud fee, registration fees, food, etc., to name a few?
"Because it would be good for the children to witness the birth and play with the puppies as they grow up." - Actually, the "gory" parts of the whelping is repulsive to most children, who are all too anxious to just skip the viewing of the miracle of birth you have planned for them to see. A litter growing up is too rowdy for most kids who are usually totally disinterested or absolutely terrified of the leaping creatures with their sharp nails and teeth. If you want the children to see a puppy grow up, it's usually better to buy one in from someone reputable.
"Because we love our Meg, she is adorable and we want one just like her." - The chances of you getting another one who is "just like her" are slim indeed.
"Because everyone who comes to the house and sees our Meg wants a puppy from her when she has a litter." - Just wait until your litter of 8 is ready to go to their homes and watch all those people back out with excuses like...."The kids aren't old enough."...."The kids are too old now to be bothered with caring for a dog."......"We are going to have a baby."...."The rug is too new."...."The house is too small."...."We'll be moving in 3 months."....."Grandma doesn't like dogs."...."Our old dog hasn't died yet."....."It might not get along with the cat.".....and the list just goes on and on believe us we have heard it all!
"Because we really love little puppies." - You'd better be sure you love them. You can't fully imagine how much is involved, such as the mess a litter makes. Can you put up with the cleaning that is constantly needed in caring for the litter? There is no way to explain how tired you get of scrubbing up after the puppies, their whelping box, the yard, kennel, or wherever they are kept. They dump their food and water the minute you put it down, step in it, and drag it through whatever else may be in the puppy box, and with 6 or 8 or more puppies, there's always something else to be cleaned up too!
Do you understand the RESPONSIBILITY you will have with a litter?
It's not just Meg having the litter and caring for it until they are ready to go. Most of it is up to you and you're tied to the litter like any new mother, only you can't take the litter with you to your in-laws for the weekend, or any place else for that matter, so you'd better be content and get used to spending the next eight weeks on your own, because you have to be there to feed the puppies four times a day.
Now that you have some idea of what is involved other than playing with those cute, cuddly puppies and are still determined to breed, then here are some more questions to be considered again I urge you to answer them honestly .
Is your bitch of QUALITY to breed?
Do you know her faults as well as her virtues? Does she meet with the standard of the breed? Is she in good health? Has she been tested free of any genetic defects associated with the breed? Do you have suitable homes for the puppies because if not what are you going to do with them? They are your responsibility.
If you can answer "yes" to the above and haven't lost the determination to try your hand at raising a litter, and understand all the risks associated, then read on...
It is always wise to get an opinion of your bitch from a few reputable breeders ones who will advise you as to what they think are her faults and her virtues.
Learn about any problems that exist in the breed such as possibly hip dysplasia, eye disorders, etc. Study the breed standard yourself so that you are familiar with it when looking at and evaluating possible stud dogs. Get several reputable breeders opinions of a stud dog who they think will enhance your bitch. Make contact with the Stud Dog Owner, and look at some of the offspring possibly.
After you have decided on a stud dog, and the Stud Dog Owner is happy to let you use the dog, take your bitch to the vet and have all necessary health clearances done . She should have a general health check-up and the vet will advise on fitness, worming, any vitamin supplements (if needed) etc.
Don't forget, all this is going to cost money.
Now while you wait for her to come into season, read all you can on your particular breed, breeding, whelping, and rearing puppies.
Start saving all your newspapers and have your friends do the same (remember what we told you about clean-up?) You'll need all the newspaper you can get.
Have a whelping box built or, if you are handy, build one yourself. More.
When the bitch comes in season, contact the stud dog owner with whom you have previously made arrangements regarding the mating. You will be advised on when to bring your bitch. Plan to pay the stud fee at the time of mating . There may also be a boarding charge if your bitch has to stay with the stud dog's owner . Be sure you understand in advance what the payment of the stud fee is guaranteeing. The suitable stud for your bitch may be some distance away involving additional travelling expense . Getting your bitch bred isn't always as easy as you might imagine and may require repeated trips to the stud dog.
After your bitch is bred you have about 63 more days to do more reading and thinking, and laced with the good thoughts about the precious darlings will be some horrible thoughts about what can go wrong and if it does then how much it will cost you, both in financial and emotional terms. It will be a nail biting time for you!
We hate to keep dwelling on this but things DO GO WRONG occasionally and it is better to be prepared should this happen to you.
(1) What if your bitch has problems and requires a Caesarean section or other extensive vet services?
(2) What if the puppies die?
(3) What if she is not in whelp or has a miscarriage?
(4) What are you going to do with 6 six month old puppies that you can't sell, give away, or have the heart to put to sleep? Do you have adequate facilities and what about the extra costs involved with feeding six extra mouths?
(5) What if your bitch can't or won't nurse the puppies? Are you prepared to feed them every two hours for the next three weeks?
(6) And worst of all, what if Meg dies while whelping or afterwards? Will it have been worth it?
Your animals welfare, should at all times be of prime concern. We have all heard horror stories of people visiting breeders to purchase a pup, only to find the animals kept in appalling conditions remember people talk don't breed unless you have the time and the right facilities.
The days pass, and Meg whelps her puppies without any problems, but you still have to take her to the vet to be checked over within 24 hours of delivery. She will probably get injections to prevent infections . Lucky for you, Meg whelped 6 healthy puppies.
They are almost 6 weeks old now and in two weeks it will be time to sell them. First they will all have to make a trip to the vet. Their check-up will include vaccinations; a worm check and maybe flea treatment. (6 x).
You will need to register them with the Kennel Club before they leave home (6x£12 = £72) also you need to write out a Pedigree for each puppy or alternatively purchase them from the KC (6x £6 = £36).
Now that you know they are healthy and ready to go, you'll want a breeder to see just how gorgeous they are and how great you did on your first try. Of course, you think they are all show quality and worth show prices. But again be prepared because you might be told the following:
(1) The best male only appears to have one testicle.
(2) The next best male toes out badly (but has both testicles.)
(3) The really pretty bitch is oh so cute, but unfortunately has a bad bite.
(4) The smaller bitch has a proper bite but her topline is not very good.
(5) The bitch with the prettiest head is lovely until you look at her rear and see she is cowhocked.
There are 1/3 who are average, nothing really wrong but nothing outstanding either.
There is one who is show quality. The "show quality" one is the one you were going to keep just as a pet because the kids liked it best (another mouth to feed £) and you're feeling down at the breeder's opinion of your litter. But you're told to cheer up, one outstanding puppy is better than a lot of people get out of a litter and you should consider this a successful breeding - little consolation when you were going to sell them all as show puppies!
Now you have your litter graded and priced accordingly and you are ready to sell them. By this time, are you knowledgeable enough about your breed to be the expert every buyer assumes you are? Are you prepared to answer questions on training, housebreaking, feeding, grooming, etc.? Are you prepared to answer these questions not only at the time of purchase, but months later or when someone calls at midnight because the dog isn't eating right? Can you direct buyers to obedience classes, breed handling classes, agility classes help them get into showing, recommend a vet, etc.? Remember, you are now the breeder and the responsibility doesn't end when a puppy is carried out the door. Do you have a pedigree ready to go with each puppy, as well as the registration forms? Are you prepared to advertise extensively if needed?
If you have a good bitch and have bred to a stud dog owned by an interested breeder, they may send referrals to you, but don't depend on others such as the Breed Clubs to sell your puppies, Advertising expenses can be quite costly and can really add up. Don't expect the buyers to flock to your door the day the puppies are ready to go. It may take weeks, or even months, before they are all sold. This results in lots of food costs and more trips to the vet .
We hope that, having considered all the above, that if you do decide to breed your bitch then do it the right way and only for the right reasons putting in lots of time, thought, and love into your decision.
Remember puppies do not ask to be born and as a Breeder it is both your duty and responsibility to ensure that your puppies go to the right homes and for the right reasons and financial gain is not one of these.
Presented as a public service by Warrenton Kennel Club.
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After all this time, the old Traverse City asylum buildings finally have what they are calling, "Twilight Tours." The description on their website reads:
"For those seeking an otherworldly experience, the evening skyline of building 50 is magical and unique. The tour begins on the front lawn with a formal toast to honor history's advocates for moral treatment. Then, on to observe the fascinating shadow play, and listen for the creeks and groans of the asylum "cottages" settling at night."
They are not being billed as "ghost tours," but this is totally catering to fans of the paranormal, and especially people drawn to the decades of haunted tales that have been told about the old hospital. Call it "shadow play" or "creaks and groans," but fans of the spooky will LOVE this tour, even if ghost stories are not the focus. The real history of asylums are troubling enough and the Traverse City State Hospital has a history going back over 130 years from its start in 1885.
When these buildings were sitting in disrepair after the hospital closed in 1989, people often thought ghost tours offered by a local historical society, or the city would have been amazing, but there were too many hazards. Rotting floors, lead paint, asbestos…no one wants to catch cancer on a ghost tour. But now that the Minervini Group has been extensively renovating the entire place for the past 17 years, it's not such a death trap anymore. Although, the tour page does warn that it is an "active construction site" and there are a few suggestions to follow.
The tour will focus on the fascinating history of the hospital with stories about actual patients, including "eyebrow-raising accounts", as well as, "a miraculous true-life story that we share," according to an interview on MLive. Plus, tour participants get to see parts of the buildings not normally open to the public, such as the underground steam tunnels. How cool is that?
90-minute tours can be booked ahead of time for $35 a person. You must be 18 or older with a valid photo ID. Tours are nice and small at a maximum of 15 people.
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Your swimming pool water chemistry must be met for your chlorine to work properly.
It's the most widely used and one of the more cost effective ways for disinfecting.
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In the hot summer months your sanitizer can degrade rapidly. The sun will wreak havoc on your pool and for this reason any adjustments should be done in late afternoon or early evening hours.
This allows enough time for it to go work immediately and start sanitizing your pool. It should be either broadcast (Calcium Hypochorite) or poured (Sodium Hypochlorite/ liquid) evenly, starting in the deep end and kept at 2 - 4ppm.
If you have an outdoor pool and you're using it up like crazy I would then encourage you to check your cyanuric acid (pool stabilizer) level. Too little, below 20ppm, and your pool chlorine will hit bottom. Too too much cyanuric acid, above 70 - 80ppm, and it can't do the job.
One of the best ways to add cyanuric acid to you pool is with chlorine tablets. You can also use granular chlorine like sodium dichlor or trichlor. The range for CYA is 30 - 50ppm.
If you have one of the many kinds of small swimming pools or kiddie pools, just a tiny bit is needed to keep them sanitized.
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Once upon a time, in a village far from Wall Street's bustle, a visitor arrived. Mr. Market, as he called himself, had made a small fortune trading momentum stocks on the Nasdaq. He'd made so much, in fact, that he'd decided to call it quits and retire from the trading game to live out his days in leisure in the country (or so he thought).
And so he moved to the village. And bought himself a cottage. And raised geese in his back yard. As the days passed by, however, Mr. Market found himself strangely unhappy. The cottage, you see, lacked high-speed broadband Internet access. And the geese made a terrific racket whensoever Mr. Market exited his cottage, honking angrily and nipping at Mr. Market's heels. All this troubled Mr. Market mightily, to be sure. But most of all, Mr. Market missed the excitement of his trading. He fancied himself a savvy businessman, you see, having discovered Travelzoo
Now in that village, there also lived a tradesman, Joe Fool by name. Mr. Fool owned a diamond shop, which had been the family business for many generations. Tiffany
The meeting
Late one evening (Feb. 11, as it happed), as Mr. Market strolled the paths and alleys of the village, he happened upon Mr. Fool's humble establishment. He noticed a line of customers stretching from store door and down the street, all the way to the village promenade, and he thought to himself, "Savvy businessman that I am, I have discovered a capital business here. Clearly this will make for an excellent investment. I shall meet with the proprietor and make him an offer to purchase half of his business."
And so he did. Pushing past the line of customers, frantic to purchase presents to gift their sweethearts on the coming morn, Mr. Market met with Mr. Fool and said to him, "Kind sir, I wish to buy an interest in your business and I am prepared to offer $1 million for a 50% share. What say you?"
Now Mr. Fool knew right well that $1 million was a price that no Fool in his family would ever tender for the diamond shop. Why, the store did barely $20,000 in profits on an average year! He tried to tell Mr. Market as much, but to no avail. And so, reluctantly, Mr. Fool shook hands with Mr. Market and the deal was done.
The next day
The next day (Feb. 12), Mr. Market paid a visit to his new partners and smiled in satisfaction as the stream of customers continued to flow in -- each gentleman more eager than the next to make a purchase. Why, as the day turned into eventide, and as the sales actually increased, Mr. Market turned to Mr. Fool and inquired, "Dear partner, I've mis-underestimated the profitability of our business. Clearly this diamond shop is a gold mine. Will you accept another $1 million in exchange for another 25% interest in our venture?"
Mr. Fool shook his head in pity. But knowing that argument was futile, he agreed. And so ended the second day, with Mr. Market in possession of 75% of the diamond shop, and Mr. Fool in possession of 25% -- and $2 million.
The crash
On day three of the gentlemen's partnership, Mr. Market awoke bright and early. He donned his finest suit. Dusted off his bowler and grabbed his ivory-handled cane. He rushed out the door and, cane swinging wildly, shooed away his geese left and right and rushed down the street to the diamond shop. And stopped.
"Why, where are all the customers?" wondered Mr. Market aloud. "Mr. Fool must be opening up late this morning," he mused. But on entering the shop, he saw that this was not so. The doors were unlocked. The lamps were all lit. And nary a buyer in sight.
"Alas!" exclaimed Mr. Market to Mr. Fool. "Our business is doomed! The customers have forsaken us and all have run off to buy their presents on Overstock
Mr. Fool tried to comfort his partner, assuring him that while business was always good in the days leading up to St. Valentine's Day, the day after was almost always a slow one. But Mr. Market would not be consoled. "No, sir," he declared. "I want out. This business is doomed. We're naught but a diamond-hawking Kmart
Clucking in disapproval, but already aware of both his partner's mood swings and his stubbornness, Mr. Fool agreed. And so ended the third day, with Mr. Fool again a sole proprietor, but now a wealthy one, with $1 million in the bank. And Mr. Market? He was out of business and back tending his geese, $1 million poorer and not one cent wiser.
The moral
Every story has a moral, and this one is no different. Like it or not, as individual investors, we're all partners in business with Mr. Market. And we know he's a moody chap. While we certainly don't advocate trading stocks daily, the fact remains that some days Mr. Market's going to look at a perfectly ordinary business and think it extraordinary. If you've done your homework beforehand and know the business' true worth, you just might want to take him up on his offer and pocket the profit.
Other days, Mr. Market will look at the very same business and call it a dog. He won't be swayed by talk of strong free cash flow or low enterprise value. He won't give a hoot what the price-to-book value ratio might be. He'll just want out. On those days, too, you'll be well rewarded for having done your homework ahead of time. You'll be reclining on your Barcalounger, cash in hand, happy to take the shares off Mr. Market's hands at a discount.
We're well aware of Mr. Market's moodiness at Motley Fool Hidden Gems. It's a prime reason why we advocate a "dollar-cost averaging" approach to investing. We encourage our members to research their investments thoroughly and buy them steadily over time. Investors who stick with this approach will find that when Mr. Market is in a foul mood, they get more shares for their money. Conversely, when Mr. Market waxes enthusiastic, bidding up shares to insane valuations, a disciplined investor will buy fewer of them and consequently suffer less when Mr. Market's mood later turns ornery.
Is all this fair to Mr. Market? Fair or not, it really doesn't matter. The old gent has been this way for over a century now. He's set in his ways and not about to change just because doing so might keep him from losing some money. So we might as well indulge him. And if that means we get to keep on collecting 22% annualized profits to Mr. Market's mere 6% returns, well, we'll just have to live with that.
If you're ready to meet and do business with Mr. Market, Hidden Gems can show you how. Every month we pick two small companies boasting strong profits, cheap valuations, and a team of crackerjack Foolish analysts watching their every move. Join now for a free one-month trial and we guarantee that, when Mr. Market wants to trade these stocks, you'll know whether he's offering you the right price.
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At work we have a network of wired Windows XP computers.
Is it possible to wireless-enable one of our laptop (Windows XP Pro) and use that wireless connection to establish a Remote Desktop Connection onto a wired PC on the network in order to check email, access files and print (if performance was adequate it would also be helpful to run our accounting software).
This would enable a few staff who come into the office just a few times a week to sit at any desk with a wireless laptop without needing to have a network cable available.
What hardware would I need to purchase (presumably a wireless dongle for the laptop and a wireless router ?
How easy would it be to set up ? (I ask because I know most people use wireless just for internet sharing).


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Domino's Introduces Pizza Wedding Registry
In my recent cover story on Domino's for the February issue of Franchise Times, I spent a lot of time asking the company's management about what comes next, especially when they've already done so many cool things, such as the Zero Click App. Just weeks after that issue printed, the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based pizza giant has outdone itself with a pizza wedding registry. Seriously.
According to the press release, "Wedding bells are ringing at Domino's Pizza" with a pizza registry going live today at dominosweddingregistry.com. While I realize many brands do things to get attention from the press—Arby's serving venison anyone?—I'm not sure what's the motivation behind this one, but it's pretty darn funny and definitely not fake news.
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"Valentine's Day is right around the corner, so we wanted to give recently engaged couples that are passionate about pizza the chance to register for something they both truly love as much as their partner," said Jenny Fouracre, Domino's spokesperson. "Choosing wedding gifts can be a daunting process, especially if couples can't agree on what to register for. Our registry aims to bring couples together over their shared love of pizza."
After creating and customizing their registry, couples can choose from a variety of featured gifts to enjoy before, during and after the wedding. For those who aren't sure what to serve at pre-wedding festivities like bachelorette parties, Domino's has it covered with "Cater the Bachelorette Party." Registrants also have the option to treat wedding guests to pizza at the end of the reception by adding "Dancing with My Slice" to their registry. After the newlyweds settle into their life together, they can enjoy a "Low-key Date Night" or take advantage of "An Excuse Not to Cook" with Domino's. All gifts will be delivered to the lucky recipients as Domino's eGift cards.
"We hear often from customers that Domino's was a part of their big day, from proposals to after-hours meals at their wedding," said Fouracre. "We wanted to make it easier for people to ask for and receive something that they'll really use."
Once registrants select their gifts, they can share their wish list with family and friends on social media or with a unique URL. Wedding guests can also search for a registry by using the names and wedding date of the soon-to-be newlyweds.
To celebrate the launch of Domino's Wedding Registry, wedding-inspired pins have been added to the official Domino's Pinterest page at www.pinterest.com/dominos.
Know a pizza-loving couple who isn't registered? You can still give them a gift! Find more information about Domino's wedding registry at dominosweddingregistry.com.


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Earlier today, the Texas Third Court of Appeals at Austin issued its highly anticipated decision in Graphic Packaging Corporation v. Hegar, et al., No. 03-13-00400-CV (Tex. App.―Austin, July 28, 2015). The decision affirms the trial court's ruling that the election under the Multistate Tax Compact to use a three-factor apportionment formula (the "Compact Election") is not available to taxpayers for Texas franchise tax purposes. Instead, taxpayers must apportion their taxable margin using the statutory single-factor apportionment formula based on receipts.
Because the trial court did not divulge the basis for its decision, this opinion marks the Texas courts' first effort to weigh in on the Compact Election litigation that has swept the nation over the last several years. Courts in other states have wrestled with the difficult question of whether the Multistate Tax Compact contractually binds states to provide the Compact Election. The Third Court of Appeals, however, did not reach this question; instead it resolved the case by conducting a statutory construction of the Compact Election's terms.
By its own terms, the Compact Election is available only for "income taxes." The Multistate Tax Compact defines an "income tax" as a tax imposed on or measured by net income including any tax imposed on or measured by an amount arrived at by deducting expenses from gross income, one or more forms of which expenses are not specifically and directly related to particular transactions. Tex. Tax Code § 141.001, art. II.4.
The Texas Court of Appeals analyzed the Multistate Tax Compact's definition of an "income tax" and concluded that the limited types of deductions available from total revenue under the Texas franchise tax do not produce net income. Accordingly, the Court held that "the franchise tax is not 'a tax imposed or measured by net income' and, therefore, ...it does not fall within [the Multistate Tax Compact's] definition of an 'income tax.'"
The taxpayer in Graphic Packaging will probably file a motion for rehearing or a motion for rehearing en banc. If it does not find relief through a rehearing, it may petition the Texas Supreme Court to review the Court of Appeals' decision. If it does, the Texas Supreme Court may take the case, given the national importance of the Compact Election litigation and the number of pending cases in the state. That said, the Texas Supreme Court would be more likely to take the case if the decision had turned on interstate compact law rather than a statutory construction of the Compact Election's terms.
It remains to be seen how the Texas Court of Appeals' decision will affect related questions regarding the Texas franchise tax's status as an income tax, including for purposes of:
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This cairn has almost moved into legendary status as to it's existence up here. I'm sure Rhiannon will be delighted to learn that it is alive and kicking and doing nicely. The last time I was here the hill was covered in gorse and various other jabby things. I just happened to be driving past looking for rock art at Auchentarph when I noticed the hill had been shaved of all obstacles due to the farmer at Lawfolds erecting a couple of turbines. Probably this is the best thing to have happened here. The hill has been reseeded with grass so the cairn should now be clearly visible in the future. Best to ask permission from the farmer at Lawfolds who asked loads of questions. Hopefully I supplied all the right answers!
The cairn itself looks about 13/14 meters wide and probably around 0.7 to 0.9 meters at it's highest. Remnants of kerb can now be clearly seen at three different areas. Only a small piece of damage has been done to the northern side but this doesn't look to bad. So in a time and place when wind turbines and their erection harm ancient monuments it's good to report that this has gone the other way and brought the cairn back to life. The farmer is certainly very proud of the cairn and should be congratulated for the care he has shown.
A few rocky outcrops revealed no cup marks. Pity, as my old friend Bennachie is in front to the south. As is usual, up here, The Law is surrounded by other circles, cairns, standing stones and hillforts.
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