Digging Around in DNA

By admin | January 4, 2021

With the pandemic this year, many holiday gifts were less object-driven and more (safe) experiential. A trend over the last few years that continues to grow is giving people insights into their history, chemistry and ancestry. Nothing tells a story like your DNA, and with widespread DNA testing shedding light on the ancestry of millions…

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Goodbye 2020

By admin | December 28, 2020

At the end of 2019, many projections were shared about the technology trends that would come in 2020. No one expected that video conferencing would be the one in greatest demand. 2020 has brought never imagined challenges in all facets of our lives. Health, education, work and technology have all faced the highest level of…

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Christmas Carols Classified

By admin | December 21, 2020

Some people can’t wait for Halloween to be gone so they can put up their Christmas tree, hang the outdoor lights and start listening to White Christmas, Jingle Bell Rock and the many other seasonal tunes for this holiday season. There are others who abhor anything holiday-related. They do not decorate, only buy gifts begrudgingly…

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Common Denominators

By admin | December 14, 2020

Latent semantic indexing (LSI) is a natural language processing technique that analyzes relationships between a set of documents and the terms they contain. The result? Search engines can identify related terms for keywords by researching through billions of pages and use these findings to evaluate whether a web page offers truly comprehensive content related to a…

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Data Safety Concerns

By admin | December 7, 2020

Safety has taken 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…

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Searching for Semantics

By admin | November 30, 2020

Semantic enrichment gives data more meaning, making it more easily discoverable by both users and search engines. Semantic search is changing many things, but especially the way digital marketing is or at least should be performed. Add to that, the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing technologies are revolutionizing the way a search engine retrieves information. …

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Organizing Your Dessert Menus with a Taxonomy

By admin | November 23, 2020

Thanksgiving in the United States is Thursday, November 26th. When someone says Thanksgiving food, most people think turkey. But not everyone. Cue the Dessert Taxonomy Pies, cakes and cobblers, oh my. Beyond classification, I could see this as a strategy plan for meal preparation or to-do list. Let’s assign a category to a week and…

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The Power of Data Governance

By admin | November 16, 2020

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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Preserving History

By admin | November 2, 2020

There are millions of historical documents that make up our heritage and that have been locked away behind bureaucratic structures and in largely inaccessible storage formats. Preservation is important, but access is as well. New digital technology is finally providing an easy, efficient and publicly accessible way to store and share this history. When it…

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