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Machine Learning Used to Optimize Data
Bloomberg is harnessing the power of an emerging technology to develop new products and services. This interesting news came to us from Diginomica in their article, “How Bloomberg uses machine learning to create a competitive advantage.” Using machine-learning technology to utilize its vast data sets of financial information to its utmost, their results are new and…
Read MoreManaging Data in All Sizes
Managing data can be a challenge for any size of organization. At the rate that data is generated these days, it will only become a larger problem. Inside Big Data brought this topic to our attention in their article, “Overwhelmed by Data? Here’s How to Get Control of It.” In 2017 there were nearly 9 billion…
Read MoreThe Relationship of IoT and Blockchain
The Internet of Things (IoT) is creating new opportunities and providing a competitive advantage for businesses in both current and new markets. Recent computer industry developments set the stage for demonstrations of how blockchain can help to turn IoT networks into trusted environments. Information Week brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “Using Blockchain…
Read MoreFacebook Cleans House
Facebook has reported that they removed hundreds of Russia-initiated accounts, which it judged to be involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior on its platforms, including some linked to state-owned news agency Sputnik. Reuters brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “Facebook blocks accounts linked to Russian state-owned Sputnik.” This comes after much outrage and…
Read MoreTaxonomy Educational Opportunities at SLA 2019
The Special Libraries Association (SLA) Taxonomy Division is pleased to present several educational sessions at the SLA 2019 Annual Conference in Cleveland, Ohio this summer. Addressing taxonomies from many different angles, workshop titles like Big Data and Controlled Vocabularies, Ensuring Semantic Interoperability and Creating Interoperable Taxonomies, Keeping Your Taxonomy Fresh and Relevant, Taxonomy Governance IRL, and Taxonomy Tools and…
Read MoreLearning of a Different Style
There has been a revolution of technologies. Emerging technologies like deep learning and machine learning have resulted in tools capable of advancements never before seen. Forbes brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Why Machine Learning Needs Semantics Not Just Statistics.” Machine learning is a method of data analysis that automates analytical model…
Read MoreOpen and Freely Available
Open data is the idea that some data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. The philosophy behind open data has been long established, but the term itself is fairly new and gaining popularity with the rise of the Internet. This…
Read MoreThe Next Level for AI
IBM Research has built an artificial intelligence (AI) system that has the capability of analyzing 300 million articles, papers or records on a given topic and construct a persuasive speech about it – in 10 minutes. To put that in perspective, it would take a human—reading twenty-four hours a day—about 2,000 years to get through…
Read MoreSharing the Knowledge
The construction of knowledge databases, knowledge process assistance, resources sharing, and data sharing all provide an information space for knowledge workers to more easily explore new ideas. This interesting information came to us from ZAPDF in their article, “The Research of Knowledge Organization based on Linked Data under Information Space.” Information space is the set of concepts and…
Read MoreOpen Access Win
A new national open access agreement has been announced with the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ) and the Austrian Science Fund. Through this national agreement, some seventeen Austrian institutions will cover the article processing charges of manuscripts published by eligible corresponding or funded authors in MDPI journals as long as central funds are available. This interesting…
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