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In academia, the number of citations that an article receives is considered one of the most important measures of scientific impact and quality. The academic competition for grants and research positions places high value on such measures, in addition to the number of publications by any given researcher. Inside Higher Ed brought this interesting information to…
Read MoreChallenging Peer Review with Hoax Articles
Over the past year, three scholars have been engaged in a broad and massively secret academic project. Together, they submitted over a dozen papers to top academic journals in fields like gender studies, sexuality studies, race studies, and critical theory. While the majority of their submissions failed the peer review process and were ultimately rejected, a…
Read MoreFinding the Business Intelligence
Organizations rely on reports to understand information in their day-to-day operational and strategic decisions. Whether it is printed reports, virtual dashboards or score-cards, today’s data is sourced and distributed from disparate sources of data. DATAVERSITY brought this topic to us in their article, “Making the Best Use of Your Business Intelligence Solution.” In this disconnected…
Read MoreImage Synthesis Gets Help from AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies are reaching new levels of accomplishment each and every day, with no sign of plateauing in the near future. Venture Beat brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “DeepMind AI can generate convincing photos of burgers, dogs, and butterflies.” Now a system that can produce…
Read MoreCloud Computing Has New Partners
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are two technology terms and concepts that have altered the computer science and data analysis arenas. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Artificial Intelligence as a Game-Changer in the Public Cloud.” These technological approaches are at work in the business and at home. Cortana, Siri, Google’s…
Read MoreNew Product Marries Libraries and Machine Learning
San Francisco-based Fast.ai recently released version 1.0 of “fastai,” a set of code libraries designed to radically simplify writing machine learning tasks. ZD Net brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Fast.ai’s software could radically democratize AI.” Radical and library are not two words commonly seen together, but this new product, which is built…
Read MoreAccess Innovations Presenting at Text Analytics Forum 2018
Text analytics has the ability to add depth, meaning, and intelligence to any organization’s most under-utilized resource – text. The Text Analytics Forum invites all who deal with text to take a deep dive into this powerful set of techniques. The Forum has something for everyone. Through text analytics, enterprises can unlock a wealth of information…
Read MoreTaxonomy and Classification Analyst Opportunity
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, semantic technology, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving.…
Read MoreWorst Case Scenario
Ransomware is no longer just a trade term. It would be difficult to be unaware of the disaster and havoc ransomware can wreak upon an organization. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting and somewhat alarming topic to our attention in their article, “Ransomware’s Menace Goes Far Beyond Encryption.” We all have those nightmares. No, not the naked at…
Read MoreEveryone at the Table
Mark your calendars today to attend the FORCE2018 Conference in Montreal, Canada on October 11-12, 2018. The FORCE 2018 conference is a different kind of meeting. It’s where stakeholders come to the table for an open discussion, on an even playing field, to talk about changing the ways scholarly and scientific information is communicated, shared, and…
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