Making Better Use of Data

Pre-processing and indexing data in one operation with the new add-on for Splunk creates new performance and ergonomic value for users. This interesting information came to us from EIN News in their article, “New Splunk Add-On Streamlines Data Preparation, Indexing, and Visualization.” Splunk is an indexing and visualization platform and with this new add-on by Innovative…

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AI Working With Social Media

I am not sure this qualifies as a huge accomplishment in the world of science and technology, but thanks to a new app called Dango, machines are starting to get pretty good at memeing. Motherboard brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “AI Is Learning to Meme.” Teaching machines how to naturally communicate with…

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Information Architect Position Available

To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, 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…

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Providing Enterprise Solutions

Workfront provides cloud-based enterprise work management solutions and with their recently released edition of Workfront DAM, marketers, IT professionals, and other enterprise teams now have the ability to request work and locate once-undiscoverable assets with more speed and ease, the goal being to eliminate hours of wasted time. This interesting information came to us from IT Business…

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Search Technology Continues to Evolve

Google’s RankBrain is a machine learning system that, along with other algorithm factors, helps to determine what the best results will be for a specific query set. RankBrain was recently released and is causing quite the chatter. Search Engine Land brought this news to us in their article, “How RankBrain Changes Entity Search.” RankBrain appears to be related to…

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Standards Across the Board

We know the value of standards. In the world of ecological data, there is a lack of consensus on standardization of metadata, which obstructs studies. This interesting information came from 7th Space Interactive in their article, “Standardizing metadata and taxonomic identification in metabarcoding studies.” There is a need for the development and application of standards. Clear, consistent…

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Partnering with the Best

Big data has promised interesting opportunities for quite some time now. As the volume and variety of data continues to grow, organisations have started implementing new storage strategies. This interesting information came to our attention from IT Pro Portal in their article, “Crunching big data: Making sense of massive data sets.” Today’s intelligent systems rely on…

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The Strategy Around Data

The Enterprise DATAVERSITY: Data Strategy and Analytics Forum is scheduled for September 19-22, 2016 in Chicago. If you haven’t already registered, there is a savings of $300 if you do so by July 8th. This is a unique opportunity to elevate your professional skills, learn more about the latest analytics tools, and get inspired by the some…

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Tapping Data Lakes

Semantic computing continues to evolve and especially in the healthcare industry as big data analytics leaders looks to move beyond the basics of population health management, predictive analytics, and risk stratification. Health IT Analytics brought this information to us in their article, “Montefiore Semantic Data Lake Tackles Predictive Analytics.” In contrast to the traditional relational database, this…

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