Access Insights
Access Innovations, Inc. Works with ASCE to Launch New Civil Engineering Database
Access Innovations, Inc. is pleased to announce the completion of the Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). ASCE contracted Access Innovations in 2014 to begin transforming their corpus of civil engineering records from their existing relational database into an XML database. To do this, Access Innovations ingested nearly 250,000…
Read MoreTaxonomy of Leprechauns: A Non-Authoritative Guide
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Leprechaun_ill_artlibre_jnl.png As befits any imaginary subject, there is no authoritative taxonomy of Leprechauns; like dragons, affordable housing in San Francisco, and happy SharePoint users–they do not, in fact, exist. This inconvenience does not, however, preclude speculation on the topic; there is (unsurprisingly) no shortage of information about Leprechauns on the Web and, indeed, in several…
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. Releases Data Harmony® Version 3.11
Access Innovations, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of Version 3.11 of its Data Harmony Suite of software tools. The Data Harmony Suite provides content management solutions to improve information organization by systematically applying a taxonomy or thesaurus in total integration, with patented content extraction methods. MAIstro™, the award-winning flagship software module of the…
Read MoreHilariously Weird ICD-10 Codes
ICD-10 codes are used for medical billing purposes all over the world. If you limp into a healthcare facility with a broken ankle, there’s a code for that. If you catch the flu, there’s a code for that, too. Most of these codes are pretty standard fare for the medical field, and cover a wide…
Read MoreMark Your Calendars Now
With February falling past the half point, April is not that far away. So make your plans now for the 20th annual Enterprise Data World (EDW) Conference . This conference is recognized as the most comprehensive educational conference on data management in the world. The event is scheduled for Sunday, April 17, 2016 – Friday, April 22, 2016…
Read MoreData Harmony Users Group in the Rear View Mirror
The 12th annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) has come and gone. Twenty-five attendees joined the Access Innovations staff last week to hear case studies presented by users and presentations by Access Innovations and Data Harmony staff. The agenda was well planned with diverse approaches to managing data and being responsive to the unique needs…
Read MoreTurning the Bad Into Good
Cindy Acton from Cargill shared with the attendees of Data Harmony Users Group (#DHUG2016) how her organization uses Data Harmony to help their research and development team index and access technical reports. Cargill’s thesaurus contains over 9,000 terms and about 500 top level terms into a streamlined tool used by their researchers to find the…
Read MoreTaxonomies That Work
Ian Matzen from America’s Test Kitchen – home of the well known television show and foodie paradise – spoke to the Data Harmony Users Group (#DHUG2016) about their experience working with Access Innovations on consultation and refinement of their thesaurus. America’s Test Kitchen is a real 2,500 square foot test kitchen located just outside of Boston that…
Read MoreThe Sky is Falling
Day two of Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) was kicked off with Dr. Moriba Jah from the University of Arizona and Director, Space Object Behavioral Sciences at the Air Force Research Laboratory. Dr. Jah started the session by talking trash. As an astrodynamicist with expertise in quantifying, assessing, and predicting the behavior of objects in…
Read MoreVisualizing Your Data
Data visualization is the presentation of data in a pictorial or graphical format. It enables decision makers to see analytics presented visually, so they can grasp difficult concepts or identify new patterns. Visualizing complex data can be a challenge but also offers unique opportunities to direct perception without drowning in spreadsheets, numbers and queries. At…
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