Posts Tagged ‘ training ’

Go Guerrill-R on Your Data

May 31, 2011
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Go Guerrill-R on Your Data

The Guerrilla Data Analysis Techniques training course (GDAT) will be held during the week of August 8-12 this year. As usual, the focus will be on applying R to your performance and capacity planning data, as well as how to use the PDQ-R modeling too...

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May 2011 Guerrilla Classes: Light Bulb Moments

May 23, 2011
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May 2011 Guerrilla Classes: Light Bulb Moments

It's impossible to know what will constitute a light bulb moment for someone else. In the recent Guerrilla classes (GBoot and GCaP), we seemed to be having many more than our usual quota of such moments. So much so, that I decided to keep a list. The f...

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Emulating Internet Traffic in Load Tests

May 15, 2010
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Emulating Internet Traffic in Load Tests

One of the recurring questions in the GCaP class last week was: How can we make web-application load tests more representative of real Internet traffic? The sticking point is that conventional load-test simulators like LoadRunner, JMeter, and httperf, ...

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August Guerrilla Class: Using R for Performance Analysis

June 29, 2009
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August Guerrilla Class: Using R for Performance Analysis

Registrations are still open for the Guerrilla Data Analysis Techniques (GDAT) class being held August 10-14, 2009. The focus will be on using R and the new release of PDQ-R for performance analysis and capacity planning.All Guerrilla classes are hel...

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Review of R in NYT and GDAT

January 8, 2009
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Review of R in NYT and GDAT

GDAT instructor, Jim Holtman, pointed me at this review of R in yesterday's New York Times. It definitely puts SAS on the defensive.Update: Another piece in the tech section of NYT.If you want to know how to apply R to performance data, sign up for th...

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