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Forecasting with Data
Everyone wants to know about the future – what to expect, how to act and most importantly, how to prepare. Prescriptive analytics involves finding the best course of action for a given situation. Similar to its cousins, descriptive analytics and predictive analytics that gathers historical facts and then encompasses a variety of statistical techniques that…
Read MoreTechnology and the Environment
Growing and relatively new concerns about climate change, pollution, and energy costs have prompted new focus on consumption and sustainability. In response to evolving concerns, a number of countries and large cities have focused on the development of smart cities and smart grids that uses technology to support an infrastructure managed by artificial intelligence (AI) and big data…
Read MoreOpen Process and Community
Open source or open access – it is all about sharing information. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to us in their article, “A Brief History of Open Source Data Technologies.” The near-simultaneous rise of interest in open source and open access has made these concepts ripe for confusion. Though open source and open access are two distinctly different things, their ultimate…
Read MoreFighting Back Against Ransomware
Cyber security against data breaches these days are top of the list of priorities for most organizations. Microsoft has recognized that and is offering some support in their recent update of Office 365. This interesting information came to us from The Hacker News in their article, “Microsoft Office 365 Gets Built-in Ransomware Protection and Enhanced…
Read MoreSmarter Technology
Remember when you were amazed at how fast a copy machine could reproduce your document in multiple copies including stapling and sorting them? However fast it was, it never seemed to be fast enough as became more acclimated to technology and the instant gratification it can offer. Nothing has really changed except for the tools…
Read MoreShining the Light on Peer Review
Peer review is a vital step in scientific publishing. Unfortunately it is often not formally taught. This interesting news came to us from EurekAlert! in their article, “PLOS announces new website for peer reviewers.” In support of its global peer reviewer community of more than 74,000 researchers, the Public Library of Science (PLOS) created the PLOS…
Read MoreAI in Healthcare
Healthcare information technology is benefiting from artificial intelligence (AI) advances. The adoption of AI in healthcare continues to increase and providing solutions for patients, providers, and the industry as a whole. DATAVERSITY brought this information to our attention in their article, “Artificial Intelligence and Data Management: AI Meets Healthcare Innovation.” The proliferation of the Internet of…
Read MoreWaste of Space
Do you know that the average organization doesn’t use half of its structured data in decision-making? Add to that shocking news, less than one percent of unstructured data is analyzed or used at all. There is a lot of data being ignored and not utilized. IT Web brought this interesting information to our attention in…
Read MoreLocal Government Data Security Revisited
Atlanta is still struggling to recover from a ransomware attack just over a week ago. The chaos has been referred to as a “hostage situation” and security experts say is a reminder of the vulnerabilities of government computer networks. This came to us from CFO in their article, “Atlanta Hack Highlights Ransomware Dangers.” The ransomware attack…
Read MoreTaxonomies in the Clouds
One challenge facing most organizations who are involved in cloud computing, and that number grows every day, is building systems that can identify and address the difference in data. This interesting information came to us from Silicon Angle in their article, “Businesses must develop a data taxonomy for edge-related systems.” Because the digital business systems are getting…
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