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Data Analytics – Understand the world around you through “Data”

by BusinessDigitalTechnology

I think from the title, you might have the idea about what we are going to read about. Exactly, we are going to read about Data Analytics. 

What is Data Analytics? It is the process of gathering all the raw data and analyzing it to determine the pattern and making decisions. However, knowing just this is not enough to understand the whole concept. So, let us dive into the entire concept of Data Analytics.

Concept of Data Analytics: Data Analytics is a wide term as any type of information can be used in Data Analytics, it helps determine the taste and trends of the market. Analyzed information can be used to help make better decisions and growth of business. 

For example: 

  1. Manufacturing Company gathers machine run time and down time. Through that information, they can analyze and determine the hours of workload so the machine works at its full capacity.
  2. Marketing companies use Data Analytic to figure out the demand, supply, taste, trends, and season of the market and then help accordingly to introduce products and services in the market.
  3. Gaming companies use data analytics to determine the need to make changes in game. Such as, to reward schedules for players who play for a particular time which keeps them active in the game.

How to Analyze Data? What is the process?

  1. Determine the data requirement according to the group, such as, by age, by education, by experience, etc.
  2. Collect data through different sources such as, online, agency, existing surveys, or personnel questionnaires.
  3. After collecting data, organize it accurately to analyze it.
  4. Then clean up before data analytics. This process helps ensure there is no error or duplicate data. After cleaning up, it is then used to analyze Data.

 Types of Data Analytics:

  1. Descriptive Analytics: This type, describes the data in the particular period and helps compare it to the past. For e.g. – Comparison of sales between last month and present month.
  2. Diagnostic Analytics: This type focuses on why something occurred. For e.g. – Did the winter season affect ice cream sales?
  3. Predictive Analytics: This type focuses on determining what will likely happen in future. For e.g. – How will an IPL match affect the environment of Covid lockdown?
  4. Prescriptive Analytics: This type suggests a course of action. For e.g. – this summer we should take this action and sales will increase by 15%.

What are the benefits of Data Analytics:

  1. Optimize and improve business performance.
  2. Helps reduce cost.
  3. Helps make better decisions.
  4. Helps analyze trends, taste, and demand of the market.

 Who uses Data Analytics?

Several sectors have adopted Data Analytics. But to name a few, almost every travel, marketing, accommodation, and almost every service industry uses Data Analytics. Manufacturing industries also use Data Analytics to grow business. Health care industries use it to determine the number of patients and revenue of the particular financial year to compare with previous years.

 We @Cloudploys provide accurate information for you to understand the concept. We @Cloudploys provide service of Data Analytics. Data Analytics is crucial for every business and helps grow and reduce cost. Now, it is on you to decide whether to acquire such effective technique or not. Stay tuned for more!

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Will Edge Computing take over Cloud Computing?

by BusinessDigitalTechnology

What is Edge Computing?

Edge Computing is a distributed network structure focused to bring computing and data storage closer to the source of data in order to reduce latency and bandwidth use.

For example: Facial recognition software in the iPhone. Edge computing is needed in facial recognition of iPhone as well as in CCTV cameras. If there was Cloud Computing in facial recognition, it would take a lot of time to unlock a mobile phone.

What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud Computing is the range of services delivered over the internet and services to store data on cloud instead of depending on HDD (Hard Disk Drives) or SSD (Solid State Drives).

Benefits of having Cloud Computing:

  • Flexible:  Cloud computing allows to start with small deployments on data storage and expand anytime according to the needs.
  • Maintenance: If a company has in-house data storage, they have to maintain it by themselves. Meanwhile, if a company has Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing service takes care of maintenance.
  • Cost Saving: When it comes to expansion, financial and operational costs are less.
  • Resource pooling: Multiple users can share the same space, access from any location and equal access to source at the same time.

 Edge Computing vs Cloud Computing:

With the increasing demand of real-time applications, cloud computing cannot be preferred as a choice of use. Real-time applications need fast information and cloud computing has more latency than Edge Computing. Cloud Computing processes information which causes delay in real-time application but has vast amounts of data storage space and gives access to users from any region. Today’s technology demands less latency and high speed to customers. Therefore, one cannot afford Cloud Computing in every need.

Although Cloud Computing has benefits, Edge Computing holds more advantage:

  1. Less Latency/Fast Processing: Edge Computing has less latency in comparison to Cloud Computing.  Cloud computing takes raw information and exchanges processed information. This process of exchange takes time, which is not acceptable in Real-time application.
  2.     Low Connectivity cost and Better security: Edge computing allows organization to filter data at the storage which helps in transferring confidential and sensitive information through less devices and builds better security. Low connectivity cost due to less movement. Thus, it eliminates the cost of required storage equipment.
  3.     Better Data Management:  According to reports, connected devices have reached around 20 Billion. Edge Computing keeps better data management, as it is preferred for real-time application.

For example:  Google Maps. While the user is requesting data of traffic in their path, the data server looks out for the other connected devices in the user’s path. If other devices are not showing any movement, Edge computing sends information as traffic ahead to the user. 

Final Thoughts: We @Cloudploys provide you knowledge and information keeping your best interest in mind. Even though Edge Computing has more advantages over Cloud Computing, the best solution is not necessarily the more advantageous one but rather the more suitable one. Here is where our experts can guide you!

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Are tech companies hiding the truth of war crimes?

by BusinessDigitalTechnology

What are “War Crimes”? 

War Crimes is breaking an International Humanitarian Law and offense of war laws by committing crime against civilians such as torturing war prisoners, killing civilians in cold blood.

How do tech companies hide the truth of war crimes?

According to tech companies, they do not hide the “truth” of war crimes, rather they are protecting the policies regarding the content. For e.g. take one famous social media, obviously there will be children, weak heart condition people, emotional and mentally disturbed individuals who use social media. Now, if we were to say, someone posted highly disturbing or violent content on a social media platform, all those above mentioned people are going to see it, which will leave them with trauma. If content is less disturbing, with the proper context that content can be allowed to stay on the platform. If not, the company has to remove it from the platform. 

So what are the contents related to war crimes that go against policy?

  • Terrorist activity
  • Violent content
  • Offensive content
  • Adult content

War is messy and it is something that a person could never forget if they saw or experienced. War includes terrorist, offensive, violent and disturbing activities. Supposedly, there is a war going on between X and Y countries. X is very powerful in comparison to Y. Therefore, X declared a war on Y. Y country is in crisis and people are dying. 

Is it possible that there are no other crimes being committed by X country except the ones that are being forecasted on television? 

No of course not! Supposedly, there is Z Company, which is a platform for users to post small videos and photos. If someone posted a video of war crimes on the platform of Z Company. Z Company will remove it from the platform immediately. 

Now where is that deleted content stored? 

The answer is: In Z Company’s data storage. Every truth, every video, every photo of war crime is stored in that. Mystery solved!

Is it illegal for tech companies to hide the truth? If not, are they wrong to do it?

It is legal for tech companies to hide the truth. Honestly, they are not hiding anything. They are just following their policy and regulation. 

But are they wrong to do it? 

Partially, yes! Also, as explained earlier, allowing such disturbing and violent content is harmful to those users. Therefore, they are partially correct to remove such content.

Now after knowing a two sided perspective, it depends on you as an individual to decide if removing evidence of war crimes from websites is good or bad.

Stay tuned for more interesting articles from @Cloudploys. We spread the knowledge we gather because we believe that everyone has a right to know and learn! 

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Programming Languages

by with No Comment BusinessDigitalTechnology

There are quite a few programming languages in the tech world! But the most tricky part is to know how and where you use these different languages? 

In this article you will get a quick insight of a couple of different programming languages and what are the key characteristics of each:

PHP – a general purpose scripting language known for its accelerated learning curve. It is super beginner-friendly, and to top it all, it supports a large pool of all the websites out there, with a popular one being WordPress!

Python – a less beginner-friendly programming language as compared to PHP. But fairly popular with its usage in web-development. Also, it is widely used at university level and this is due to its compatibility with mathematical algorithms & machine learning.

Rust / Elixir – a fancy and impressive one to add to your programming language skills. This is a considerably new programming language and one of those ones that emerges every day but takes the entire community by surprise. Rust/Elixir’s original approach to solving problems is quite appealing to a lot of potential users, primarily because of their simplicity & effectiveness.

JavaScript + CSS + HTML – a blessing in the world of front-end development. Massively popular in the developers world, with an expanding community dedicated to improving the front end space, along with a large number of potential newbies joining each day.

So if you are not really into a programming language, then it is not the end of the world! 

The programming world offers a variety of other subjects as well for you to consider like “Databases” & “Big Data Analysis”, and in fact both these subjects are dearly important in the IT community. 

These languages need some matter to develop on and this is where these other subjects come in place. All this data has to be analyzed, manipulated and computed in order for anyone to have something concrete to develop further on or even use the programming languages to derive results. 

Another thing to consider is the type of data, agenda of its usage and the ultimate output that plays a big role in deciding the most efficient languages to use when conducting the analysis. This discretion comes with time & experience, so even if you lack it then it does not deprive you of reaping it’s benefits just reach out to us because @CloudPloys we have it all!