Data Science in Business

Even for some in the business, it feels like artificial intelligence (AI) functions and machine learning tasks happen behind the scenes in a magical sort of way. Intellectually, we know that data professionals are engaging in data science, but their roles are often missed when it comes to contributing to business functions such as analytics.…

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Automated Indexing Case Study by Access Innovations

Using a rules based approach to insure fast flexibility, Margie Hlava from Access Innovations will outline several case studies in the application of semantic enrichment and metadata suggestions. This is a part of ISKO’s Knowledge Organization Education (KO-ED) Theoretical Perspectives on Thursday, February 18th at 6:30pm via Zoom. Don’t wait, register today for this free event. Margie…

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Bias in Deep Learning Systems

As the industry’s ability to collect digital data increases, a new wave of machine-based learning and deep learning technologies are offering the promise of helping improve systems and outcomes. Yet, as exciting as these new machine learning capabilities are, there are significant considerations that we need to keep in mind when planning, implementing, and deploying…

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What Does Your Data Tell You?

Data has stories to tell. Those stories, when told right, have the potential to yield significant benefits in informational analysis. This interesting topic came to us from Tech Republic in their article, “Why plot-driven data storytelling is important and how to create it.” It is important to learn how to get the stories out of…

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Open Source Expects Growth

Open source is a term used to describe computer programs with their source code available for everyone to study. The open source software development model allows others to not only study the code but also improve it by testing, bug reporting and submitting patches. This interesting topic came to us from EIN News in their…

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2021 and AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning were hot topics in 2020 as emerging technologies increasingly found their way into every part of our lives at home and at work. CRN brought this news to our attention in their article, “Five emerging AI and machine learning trends to watch in 2021.” Revenue generated by AI hardware,…

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Speech Technology Evolves

Speech technology has continued to develop and progress over the years. Its value and application has been highlighted during the pandemic in many applications. KM World brought this news to our attention in their article, “Using speech technology to make real-time decisions at KMWorld Connect 2020.” Jans Aasman CEO, Franz Inc., discussed some of the…

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Controlled Vocabularies and Taxonomies

When we talk, we speak in natural language. This language is raw, rich, sometimes messy, but real. When we organize our information and label it however, there is so much richness, variance, and confusion in terminology that we often need to impose some order to facilitate agreement between the concepts within the site and the…

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Data Science Career Pipeline

Data science continues to evolve as one of the most promising and in-demand career paths for skilled professionals. Machine Learning Times brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “How Can We Fix the Data Science Talent Shortage?.” Data science enables better decision making. It allows users to define goals and identify opportunities…

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Taxonomies in a DAM System

A solid digital asset management (DAM) system is designed to make finding your digital files easily. This happens with a taxonomy, built to organize and index content. This interesting topic came to us from MarTech in their article, “Getting off on the right foot with DAM.“ Taxonomy is the data structure on which a DAM…

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