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Improving Search Results
Search has always been important, especially when findability is comprehensive and accurate. How has the pandemic changed search for retailers, when so many turned to online to meet every day needs? Venture Beat brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Algolia: Only 26% of retailers use AI-optimized search.” A recent survey revealed…
Read MoreThe Simultaneous Growth of Data and Cybercrime
Data is all around us and unfortunately, so are hacker attacks. Everything that we do digitally not only results in incessant new data but also exposes our digital footprints to prying eyes. This interesting and important information came to us from Security Magazine in their article, “Unstructured data growth increases risk of ransomware and data…
Read MoreMachine Learning Used in Diagnostic Measures
Researchers from the UK recently developed a real-time machine learning framework that uses dynamic patient contact networks to predict hospital-onset COVID-19 infections at the patient level. This information came to us from News-Medical in their article, “Machine learning predicts hospital-onset COVID-19 infections using patient contact networks.” Accurate and real-time disease prediction is vital for the…
Read MoreImproving Data Skills
Data skills are now essential for almost every role in every organization. Companies need more people with the ability to interpret data, to draw insights and to ask the right questions in the first place. Organizations that promote data literacy can achieve net gains in data quality, collaborative communication, innovation and work process efficiencies. Enterprise…
Read MoreFinding the Data
Machine learning applications have the potential to transform business strategy in a significant way. They are showing up in obvious and not so obvious platforms and applications, including healthcare. Information Age brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “How to sharpen machine learning with smarter management of edge cases.” The key to…
Read MoreUnderstanding Who You Are Chatting With
Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are right on the front lines of AI and human intelligence. Different kinds of AI bots are built to do different kinds of things, and that can get confusing and sometimes frustrating. How can businesses employ the best part of AI bots and leave behind the customer-frustrating side? This interesting topic…
Read MorePredictive Analytics Uses Big Data to Look Forward With Critical Sight
The term big data is no longer new. This data that contains greater variety, arriving in increasing volumes and with more velocity has for years now been in the daily conversations in business. IoT World Today brought this interesting topic to us in their article, “Transforming Data with Predictive Analytics.” With big data comes predictive…
Read MoreSearch Priorities
If a core component of your content strategy consists of identifying keywords and incorporating those throughout the content on your website, then your content is likely not going to reach the search engine page ranking you need to produce the results you want. Search engines have now prioritized semantic search in their algorithms and are…
Read MoreUpdate on Information Standards and Standardization Efforts
The 84th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) is scheduled for October 30 – November 2, 2021. ASIS&T is offering the annual meeting in a hybrid format to allow attendance and presentations both virtually and in person. The theme for the event this year is Information: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Justice, and…
Read MoreAI, Healthcare and Research
Medical researchers continue to become more and more interested in artificial intelligence‘s (AI) potential to improve healthcare. Becker’s Health IT brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “4 recent studies exploring AI in healthcare.” There have been a variety of AI applications as healthcare becomes more and more digital. Many have involved…
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