Posts by Melody Smith
Learning Opportunity Addresses Data for Analytics
DATAVERSITY is offering an educational opportunity to start your new year off right. The webinar is titled, “Data Prep – A Key Ingredient for Cloud-based Analytics”, scheduled for January 5, 2016 at 2:00 pm EST and best of all – is free. Data for analytics comes in many forms, from many sources. This data holds…
Read MoreComprehensive Search
Google search has made it possible to look for information not just based on text, but also including websites, images, videos, books, locations, etc., using the same Google search engine. Not everyone may find this information useful, but for those who work with images, graphics, and copyright infringements, it is a huge help. We found…
Read MorePeace of Mind
The end of the year brings with it resolutions and regrets. On a personal level, many of both of those include fitness. What about your digital fitness? Any resolutions there? This interesting information came to us from Beta News in their article, “New Year’s resolutions for those in IT.” Some resolutions may include the cloud. It seems…
Read MoreIntelligent Technology
Remember when you could type metadata into a search field and not get results that included NSA? Linux Gizmos brought this information to our attention in their article, “Google releases Cloud Vision API with demo for Pi-based robot.” Recently Google released a preview of its Cloud Vision API for tasks like identifying objects and faces,…
Read MoreMetadata Being Used in the War on Terror
Marco Rubio was recently quoted as saying “Metadata alone is not going to solve all the problems, but it is an important piece of a bigger puzzle that allows you to disrupt potential terrorist plots.” CNN Politics brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Rubio defends vote against banning people on watch lists from buying…
Read MoreMaking Connections
Altmetric recently released a new functionality enabling users to search the entire Altmetric database, which contains attention data for over 4 million research outputs. This can be done by using an ORCID identification. Knowledge Speak brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Altmetric adds ORCID search functionality.” Now researchers, publishers, librarians and others can find…
Read MoreBeing Open
Over the years, open access has evolved beyond a core of faculty and librarian activists and achieved acceptance across many libraries and publishers alike. It wasn’t always easy and still encounters small hurdles, but many publishers have open access models of their own, and academic libraries are building offices of scholarly communication. This interesting topic came…
Read MoreDigital in 2016
As we near the end of another year, predictions are beginning for what 2016 holds for us in the technology realm. Forbes magazine brought this interesting information to us in their article, “6 Predictions About The Future Of Digital Transformation.” One hot topic is digital strategy. According to Forrester, only 27% of today’s businesses have a…
Read MoreNew and Old Search
Search is not new. Finding the data you seek is not a new challenge. How this happens and the tools used to accomplish it, has changed. Business 2 Community brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Brave New World: The Future of Search.” It’s important to understand the evolution that has happened in search…
Read MoreMachine Learning and Data
Data storage is not a new subject. Granted before today’s massive data issues, organizations primarily stored their data in relational databases and mostly onsite. The late 1980’s brought about different options and most of those were offsite. DATAVERSITY brought this information to us in their article, “Machine Learning is Democratizing Big Data.” Machine learning is now changing…
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