A Failure to Communicate

Natural language processing (NLP) is a term we hear frequently. However, natural language understanding (NLU) is often confused with NLP. Interestingly, they both make search more intelligent and ensure people can search and find what they want. The Search Engine Journal brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “How NLP & NLU…

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Virtual Reality Benefits

Forward thinking companies are leveraging virtual experiences to do more than entertain. They are customizing products, training new users and enhancing the quality of lives. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “Start-up Stories: Mindscape Commons — or, How VR is Helping Develop Medical Students’ Communication Skills.” Virtual reality…

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AI in the Operating Room

Artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare can enhance preventive care and quality of life, produce more accurate diagnoses and treatment plans and lead to better patient outcomes overall. It can also predict and track the spread of infectious diseases by analyzing data from a government, healthcare and other sources. Fierce Healthcare brought this interesting information to our…

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Taking Your Data for a Good Bath

We all know that solid data guides the best business decisions. This is true regardless of your industry. However, while we often talk about the good data can do for your business, it’s important to talk about bad data too. When you have bad or dirty data, and you use it to help make important business decisions,…

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Maintaining Findability with Data Deluges

When the amount of new data generated surpasses the limit of institutions to manage it, and makes it difficult for analysts to analyze it and researchers to deduce any useful conclusions from it, this is known as a data deluge. This interesting topic came to us from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) in…

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A Career Driven by Data

Employment and the lack of available employees is a common topic these days. The national unemployment rate in the United States is currently at 3.5%. For the tech market, it is at 1.7%. This interesting topic came to us from CNBC in their article, “Why data analytics is the hottest skill recruiters are looking for.“…

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Changing the Data Culture

Data visualization is translating information into a visual context, such as a map or graph, to make data easier for the human brain to understand and pull insights from. The main goal is to make it easier to identify patterns, trends and outliers in large data sets. CIO brought this interesting information to us in their…

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3D Printing and AI

From reducing costs to increasing efficiency to spurring innovation, many people are excited about the impact that 3D printing will have on the future of manufacturing. Scientists and engineers are constantly developing new materials with unique properties that can be used for 3D printing. Science Daily brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Using artificial…

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Keeping the Data Secure and Still Findable

Data is a critical enterprise asset that underpins operations, drives decision-making, makes personalized end-to-end service delivery possible, unlocks competitive advantage and so much more. Unfortunately, all this data represents a rich prize for cyber criminals looking to steal, hijack or hold data to ransom. This interesting news came to us from Benzinga in their article,…

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Using a Taxonomy to Explain AI

MIT researchers are striving to improve the interpretability of features so decision makers will be more comfortable using the outputs of machine learning models. They have developed a taxonomy to help developers craft features that will be easier for their target audience to understand. This interesting information came to us from Science Daily in their…

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