Predictive Analytics in Healthcare

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that it is preparing to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can update and improve themselves as they gorge on more training data. The Predictive Analytics Times brought this subject to our attention in their article, “The FDA Wants To Regulate Machine Learning in Health Care.” It…

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Digital Curriculum

Digital technology is commonplace in education these days, beginning earlier than you can imagine. Kindergartners are being introduced to technological learning aids through the use of tablets and laptops. Of course, they were introduced to it first by their parents using their mobile phones as babysitters. This interesting topic came to us from Inside Higher Education in…

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What Does the Data Say?

Data and the proliferation of data is a hot topic these days. It wasn’t that long ago that information professionals were concerned that data would flood an organization and overwhelm those making strategic decisions. In some cases, maybe it has? This interesting topic came to us from The Holmes Report in their article, “Is The Promise Of…

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FDA is Using Technology for Food Safety

Emerging technologies are the new toys for the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA). They have announced plans to pilot artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies. In addition, they are exploring how to utilize blockchain internally and industry-wide. Computer World brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “FDA to pilot A.I., consider…

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Research and Emerging Technologies

Despite the many benefits reported on the use of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, the adoption of machine-learning techniques has some researchers worried. This interesting topic came to us from Government CIO Journal in their article, “Machine Learning is Creating a Crisis in Science.” AI, while powering a lot of scientific…

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Two Sides to the Coin

Data science has changed vastly over the past decade. Now it is revolutionizing the data world and providing a foundation for computers to solve problems in a timely manner. This interesting information came to us from CIO in their article, “The 12 dark secrets of data science.” Smart algorithms are enriching our personal lives and the…

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Natural Language Process Services Business Intelligence

Technology continues to evolve. Entrepreneurs and vendors continue to explore new options and features to enhance business processes and lives. CIO brought this information to us in their article, “Tableau adds natural language interface, streamlines data prep.” Enterprises seeking to further democratize analytics through self-service business intelligence tools will be happy to hear that vendors are working…

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Big, Bigger, Biggest Data

Big data used to bring awe to the reader and the users. However, with the deluge of digital information growing at such a pace the term no longer seems adequate. Maybe we should call it gigantic data instead? Gigabit brought this topic to us in their article, “Three barriers to effective data analytics.” Many companies have…

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Establishing a Good Foundation

Change is underway on how the industry acquires, shares and gains insights from scientific data in a vendor and platform independent data format, and common vocabulary and language that can capture the needed information for true exploration of scientific data. PR Web brought this news to our attention in their article, “A Major Milestone in Digital…

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