Posts by Melody Smith
Navigating the Digital Age
We are in the middle of the digital Information Age. So how does that impact career choices for the incoming generations and even those who are considering a second career? With great amounts of data comes a great need for data analysts. This interesting news came to us from Umass Lowell in their article, “In…
Read MoreThe World of Emerging Technologies
The world of business is rapidly changing with new challenges daily presenting themselves for organizations to overcome. Companies face evolving stakeholder needs, uncertain economic conditions, increased regulations, and other unforeseen circumstances, such as a global pandemic. Companies adopting emerging technologies, however, such as artificial intelligence (AI), hope to benefit from the competitive advantages provided by…
Read MoreTaxonomy of AI in Healthcare
It isn’t new news that emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are being used in healthcare. The news is how it continues to advance and find new applications in all aspects of patient care. This interesting information came to us from the American Medical Association in their article, “How do AI, VR help doctors deliver…
Read MoreAI Performance
Global executives are deploying and scaling artificial intelligence (AI) at a rate higher than ever before. In fact, 94% of business leaders agree that AI is critical to success over the next five years. Some organizations, however, are seeing a delay in benefits from AI. Computer Weekly brought this interesting information to us in their…
Read MoreThe ChatGPT Buzz
ChatGPT is a natural language processing tool driven by artificial intelligence (AI) technology that allows you to have human-like conversations and more with a chatbot. The language model can answer questions and assist with tasks such as composing emails, essays, and code. Harvard Business Review brought this topic to our attention in their article, “Generative AI Won’t Revolutionize Search…
Read MoreDay-to-Day AI
Regardless of how much data artificial intelligence (AI) has made available, there will always be unforeseeable situations in real-world deployments. Unfortunately, socially-situated learning remains an open challenge for AI because they must learn how to interact with people to seek out the information that they lack. This interesting information came from The Proceedings of the…
Read MoreTaxonomies in the Environment
Sustainability or green taxonomies developed by governments, international bodies, and non-governmental organizations can help improve the consistency in identifying what, exactly, makes an investment sustainable. This interesting information came to us from Eye on ESG in their article, “Leveraging Taxonomies: How Asset Managers Are Using New Sustainability Classification Systems – Part I.” Investors have increasingly…
Read MoreExtracting Value from Data
All organizations need to plan how they use data so that it is handled consistently throughout the business to support business outcomes. This means that organizations that successfully do this consider the who, what, how, when, where, and why of data to not only ensure security and compliance but to extract value from all the…
Read MoreCareers and Data Analytics
It shouldn’t be surprising that the number of data analytics jobs in the power industry in North America was up almost 4% in the same quarter last year. This interesting information came to us from Power Technology in their article, “North America is seeing a hiring boom in power industry data analytics roles.” Simply put,…
Read MoreBig Data and Analytics
The concept of big data has been around for years, and most organizations now understand that, if they capture all the data that streams into their businesses, they can apply analytics and get significant value from it. This is particularly true when using sophisticated techniques like artificial intelligence. CIO brought this interesting information to our attention in their…
Read More