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Looking Deeper at Predictive Analytics
Predictive modeling and predictive analytics are terms used, often interchangeably, in big data. Predictive modeling uses regression models and statistics to predict the probability of outcomes and it can be applied to any unknown event. Predictive modeling is often used in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). The model is chosen using detection theory to…
Read MoreData Safety Across Generations
Safety took on an entirely new level of importance in 2020. Even in the world of technology, safety of data is different with so many people working from home or remote locations. Organizations have had to think outside the normal working conditions to ensure their information, resources and data are safe. But how safe is…
Read MoreKeeping It Real
When we talk, we speak in natural language. This language may be raw, rich, and sometimes messy, but it is real. When we organize our information and label it, however, there is so much richness, variance, and confusion in terminology that we often need to impose some order to facilitate agreement between the concepts within…
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. Announces the Launch of Data Harmony Crescendo
Access Innovations, Inc., provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce the launch of Data Harmony Crescendo, the cloud deployment of Data Harmony. Crescendo is a Platform as a Service (PaaS), now available alongside the company’s Software as a Service (SaaS) offering. Crescendo can accommodate the amount of data processing that is increasing…
Read MoreData Governance Deconstructed
There is a lot of discussion happening about data governance. But what is it? Data governance is the overall management of the availability, usability, integrity and security of data used in an enterprise. A sound data governance program includes a governing body or council, a defined set of procedures and a plan to execute those procedures. In order…
Read MoreTaxonomies are the Foundation to Findability
Let’s start with the basics. Taxonomy is the organization of content into categories or topics and audiences to define content types. Taxonomies exist in every industry from science to information management to healthcare. Taxonomies provide consistency in terms and categories to enable findability in content. Findability is the ease with which information can be found. It means that users can easily find…
Read MoreThe Power of Semantic Search
Semantic search refers to the ability of search engines to consider the intent and contextual meaning of search phrases when serving content to users on the web. At one time, search engines could only analyze the exact phrasing of a search term when matching results with a search query. Now, search algorithms are more sophisticated…
Read MoreProject ECHO Taxonomy Project Completed
Access Innovations, Inc., provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce the completion of a taxonomy project with Project ECHO, a healthcare telementoring initiative based at the University of New Mexico. As the ECHO Digital platform grows to serve new geographies and new domains of knowledge, a key challenge they must overcome is…
Read MoreOntology and Data
The idea of an ontology is that it represents complex relationships among the objects or concepts themselves. So the intent of an ontology is to provide a way to connect objects. In computer science and information science, an ontology encompasses a representation, formal naming and definition of the categories, properties and relations between the concepts, data and entities that substantiate one,…
Read MoreData Governance Career Path
Done correctly, data governance can transform the way an organization manages and capitalizes on its data. However, because it spans a variety of people, processes, policies, and technologies data governance can be a daunting effort. The term data governance can have a variety of definitions. But once you start exploring, every explanation of the term…
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