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Writing from PicNet's engineers on AI, software, cloud and the systems Australian organisations run on.
Naming Conventions in Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning
In this article I am going to discuss the importance of naming conventions in ML projects. What do I mean by naming conventions? I mainly mean using descriptive ways of labelling features in a data set. What is the…
Wireless Network Rollout for Retail Premises
In the past 9 months we have been involved in a project to roll out Wireless network infrastructure to a large retail chain. I thought I would share some of the technical aspects of the project to help anyone that may…
Project Management for a Wifi rollout
Successfully managing a project requires a finely tuned balance of technical knowledge, communication skills, and coordination abilities. Project management is just that - the ability to manage a team of individuals,…
Are you still using tapes for your company backups? They were common in the 90's
During the 1990's, tape was the best technology available for backing up and archiving computer data. But today there's a better technology - cloud storage. The cloud is a network of servers that lets companies store…
Are IT wages increasing or decreasing - who is to be believed?
Are IT wages increasing or decreasing - who is to be believed? The Australian Immigration Minister Brendan O'Connor has said that the "vacancies for local IT workers were decreasing and that real wages in the IT sector…
Offshoring is finally dead !
Offshoring is finally dead. ! Well, according to Gartner (Predict 2013) and my own experience by talking to business people returning from a bad offshoring experience; there are strong indications that offshoring is…