Posts by Melody Smith
Big Data Analytics – The Popular Kid
Big data analytics is becoming more and more common. Quantivo now offers big-data analytics to corporations of all sizes using a cloud-based architecture. This patented technology will enable customers to harness information that has been buried in big data at a fraction of the cost of using other methods.
Read MoreSciVerse Chosen by Researchers
Netherlands publisher Elsevier has announced that the European Research Council (ERC) has selected the SciVerse Scopus database to assist in the tracking and awarding of funding opportunities for researchers throughout the world.
Read MoreThe DSM-5 Draft: Half-Baked Meatloaf?
For a short time in the 1990s, I helped a small company develop proposals for providing mental health services. My desk housed two standard references: the Chicago Manual of Style, and the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV) of the American Psychological Association (APA). The DSM is essentially a classification system, like a taxonomy, providing a structured list of the psychiatric diagnoses used by mental health practitioners.
Read MoreEnhanced Semantic Technology
Sprylogics International has announced the leveraging and enhancement on their existing patent pending technology base to build mobile search solutions that interpret what people are saying online and on their mobile phones.
Read MoreThe Valuable Data of Healthcare
Apixio has announced that it has provided funds for research to the Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR) at Stanford University for developing data driven methods to improve health care outcomes. Funds will support research to investigate and understand the impact of utilizing large scale clinical data in enhancing quality and improving health care enterprise. BusinessWire brought this news to our attention in their article, “Stanford University and Apixio Interpret Big Data for Healthcare.”
Read MoreThe Social Network
When someone mentions social networks, Facebook has to pop in your mind. Jonathan LeBlanc’s book, “Programming Social Applications”, would lead one to assume (yes, I know the dangers lurking there) that this would include Facebook. One would be wrong.
Read MoreLooking to the Clouds for Findability
Digitizing documents continues to be a rising trend. With physical space for storage shrinking, organizations are looking to the clouds for storage, and thus need to make their data digital. This is not an easy endeavor, considering the volume of paper any office produces. But it doesn’t have to be totally overwhelming.
Read MoreGovernment Addresses Data Management
The federal government is not much different from other organizations as they are trying for even more efficiency and essentially, more productivity out of its IT investments as well. This is a challenge in any organization, but when you consider the size of government agencies, the volume of data they create and store, and the existing systems that have to conform – it almost seems impossible. This is a perfect opportunity for data virtualization.
Read MoreCollective Intelligence
Big data continues to be a challenge for many. A large EU-funded project has filed for several patents for this sole reason. WeKnowIt is designed to convert large amounts of user-generated content into ‘a new, collective intelligence’.
Read MoreGoing Beyond SharePoint Taxonomies
Since the launch of SharePoint 2010, there are new options for taxonomies. This new version has a more evolved taxonomy management framework, a relatively robust tagging interface, and some functions to leverage the taxonomies in search and navigation.
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