Posts by Melody Smith
Digital in a Crisis
Digital transformation is the integration of digital technology into all areas of a business, fundamentally changing how you operate and deliver value to customers. But it is more than that. It’s also a cultural change that requires organizations to continually challenge the status quo, experiment and get comfortable with failure. Healio brought this topic to our…
Read MoreProtecting the Libraries
Cybersecurity refers to the activities, practices and technology that keep computers, networks, programs and data secure and protected from harmful activities such as unauthorized access, modification or damage. When it comes to academic libraries, security experts can help fend off hackers. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Guest Post…
Read MoreBusiness Strategy Based on Data
A recent survey of healthcare executives revealed their lack of trust when it comes to data. This is especially ironic given they are fundamental to making clinical and business decisions. Fierce Healthcare brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “Most healthcare executives don’t trust their organization’s data, survey finds.” Having confidence that…
Read MoreUsing Technology Responsibly
The National Humanities Center is partnering with faculty from 15 colleges and universities to create and implement curricula for developing responsible artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Campus Technology brought this topic to our attention in their article, “Google-Supported Effort to Help Develop Courses in Responsible AI.” Understanding AI is hard because it is not one thing, and the…
Read MoreUsing AI To Gather Data
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing everything. Businesses, homes, medicine and security. The impact made by advances in machine intelligence, neural network technology, natural language processing and AI cannot be ignored. Venture Beat brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “The data that will change the world is scattered all around us.” The…
Read MoreEmerging Technologies in Healthcare
Artificial intelligence (AI) and the machine learning models are changing many industries. In healthcare, they can be trained to use health data and predict a patient’s risk of being hospitalized with COVID-19. This interesting information came to us from Becker’s Health IT in their article, “AI models can predict patients’ healthcare utilization amid COVID-19.” A…
Read MoreData Career Avenues
Data analytics and data science are frequent terms across all industries these days. For those looking for long-term career potential, big data and data science jobs have long been a safe bet. This trend is likely to continue as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning become highly integrated into our daily lives and economy. The Tech…
Read MoreThe Evolution of Search
Search is not simple. Not sure it ever was, but in these days of semantic enrichment, machine-assisted indexing, natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI), it has never been more complicated and simultaneously, never more effective. Boolean search is a structured search process that allows the user to insert words or phrases such as and,…
Read MoreThe Complexity of AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) gets a lot of air time these days, but few people fully understand what it is and how it achieves the results it does. CIO Insight brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Is Machine Learning the Same as Predictive Analytics?“ AI isn’t a single technology. Instead, it’s an…
Read MoreSearch, AI and COVID-19
Artificial intelligence (AI) is on the front lines of so much these days. From helping in the global fight against COVID-19 to improving manufacturing, AI is rapidly changing the world as we know it. This interesting topic came to us from Coda in their article, “From mythology to machine learning, a history of artificial intelligence.” Not everyone…
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