Melody Smith

About Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

Data Value and Data Quality

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Data is the lifeblood of industry. After all, data is intrinsic to every advanced manufacturing operation. Better decision-making and process improvements can’t be accomplished […]

AI and Its Many Facets

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is more than one thing. It is futuristic, helpful, life-changing and overused – all at the same time. This interesting information […]

Managing Knowledge

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Knowledge graphs have emerged as a compelling abstraction for organizing the world’s structured knowledge, and as a way to integrate information extracted from multiple […]

Compliance with Fragmented Data

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Data fragmentation refers to the dispersion of an organization’s data assets. The more data you have from different sources and stored in different spaces, the […]

Insight from Analytics

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Many industries use big data to learn about their customers and tailor their products or services accordingly. In health care, big data sources include […]

Bias in Technology

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Technology can make a decision faster. That doesn’t make it fair. Algorithmic discrimination or bias is a new term, but not a new problem. […]

Emerging Technologies and Climate Change

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As climate change intensifies the devastation from storms, wildfires and droughts, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital tools are increasingly being seen as a way […]

Technologies in Cybersecurity

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Machine learning can examine terabytes of historical data and apply parameters to its decisions in fractions of seconds. This is one significant way it sets […]

Managing Data Through Transitions

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Organizations often undergo changes due to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and system upgrades. These transitions can create silos containing inconsistent and redundant data. […]

Applications of Predictive Analytics

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Predictive analytics uses historical data to predict future events. Typically, the data is used to build a mathematical model that captures important trends. That […]