Analytics Engineers and Semantic Modeling

Analytics engineers provide clean data sets to end users, modeling data in a way that empowers end users to answer their own questions. Analytics engineering as a career encompasses many fields, and is closer to software engineering than conventional data analytics since it involves writing programmatic scripts and generally maintaining data as a living set…

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Sharing Data Across Systems

The concept of interoperability is usually applied in healthcare where two electronic health record systems share data about a patient to provide comprehensive care and reduce the chance of medical errors. However, it isn’t limited to healthcare. EurekAlert! brought this news to us in their article, “How to make biomedical research data able to interact?“…

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Understanding AI

The pandemic has impacted almost everything, including the technological world. Organizations had started investing heavily in advanced analytics and next-generation technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing. Not all organizations were able to make the best out of their investment. Analytics Insight brought this to us in their article,…

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Finding the Data in the Clouds

It has taken many years for cloud computing technologies to evolve into the mainstream of global businesses. Even though the doubt about long-range sustainability of the cloud ecosystem has all but diminished, it remains to be seen how allied technologies like edge, serverless, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and big data can fulfill…

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Digital Transformation Beyond the Pandemic

It is no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation strategies. As the fight against the virus continues to shift the way people work, socialize and conduct business, new tools are being developed and older ones dusted off .Tech Republic brought this to our attention in their article, “Digital transformation or bust: Report highlights…

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Understanding Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a word thrown around quite a bit these days. And it is done in a way that assumes there is only one type or presentation of AI instead of the plethora of applications that AI may be or enhance. Maybe this is because AI is really still in its infancy? This…

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Explain Yourself

The field of artificial intelligence (AI) is a technology that is transforming every walk of life. It is a wide-ranging tool that enables people to rethink how we integrate information, analyze data and use the insights learned to improve decision making. What AI can’t do, at least on its own, is explain the thought processes…

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Embracing Digital Tools

Informatica released shared that it continues to move its data services into the cloud. The data governance and data catalog capabilities services will be part of Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC). Tech Target brought this topic to us in their article, “Informatica brings data governance and data catalog to cloud.” This comes in response to a demand in the industry…

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Finding Meaning in Data

According to CIO in their article, “Machine learning is demonstrating its mettle across industries“, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) were the most disruptive technologies in 2020. Disruptive can be defined as innovative or groundbreaking, or to prevent something from continuing or operating in a normal way. Machine learning and AI have the power to change…

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Reading the Data

In the world of retail, POS (point of sale) is king. Using data and the predictive analytics it can provide is key to a successful retail adventure. This interesting topic came to us in their article, “How Can POS Data Analytics Help in Optimizing Operations?“ Predictive analytics is a branch of advanced analytics that makes…

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