Quality Data Gives Insight

What is the role customer experience has in driving digital transformation projects? Most focus is on technology, but when it comes to the information that is derived from data – the story it tells about customer relations is priceless. ZD Net brought this information to our attention in their article, “CIOs juggling digital transformation pace, bad…

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Benefits of Predictive Analytics

Artificial intelligence (AI) has excited many a business leader. The idea of predictive analytics helping to drive their organization’s efficiency and future is alluring. There are certainly benefits of an end-to-end data engineering approach to achieving clean data, but there are also challenges.  Information Age brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “The…

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Voice Recognition and Emerging Technologies

Speech recognition is an emerging technology that still stumps some people. Speech or voice recognition is the ability of a machine or program to receive and interpret dictation or to understand and carry out spoken commands. Is there a place for voice recognition in advertising? This interesting topic came to us from Media Post in their article,…

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Digital and Data Quality

In this digital age in which we are living, we are drowning in an ocean of data. Organizations have a large number of data entities and data elements, as well as a large volume of data corresponding to the same. Challenges arise as they continue to amass more and more data with each passing day. With…

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Looking at Technology in 2020

As the first quarter of 2020 comes to a close, it is interesting to look back at what the predictions concerning the technology movement were and if there are any indications or affirmations as of yet. Tech Republic brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “Big data predictions: 8 analytics trends in…

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Training for New Data Scientists

Both Aporta and the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) recognize the need to solve global challenges through rigorous and systemic analysis of large and complex datasets and they are offering a path to educate and empower students to do so. MIT News brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “Creating…

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Searching with AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have the potential to measurably improve the accuracy of web search results. This isn’t really breaking news, but new applications are being implemented. Recently Bing’s image search engine was equipped with a number of techniques that better handle searches for pictures with specific context or attributes. Venture Beat brought this interesting…

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Cyberattacks and AI

Cyberattacks have proven to be one of the biggest threats to security worldwide. Surveys by international research companies and relevant specialists all warn of the same dire predictions – cyberattacks will increase and the more we progress technologically, the more sophisticated these attacks will become. This interesting information came to us from Daily Sabah in their…

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Using Taxonomies to Classify Carbon Emissions

European heads of state and the European Parliament have reached an agreement that codifies the criteria for permitted carbon emissions of investment portfolios, known as the taxonomy, for universal use by investors across the Continent. The classification system will be adapted in two European fund management frameworks. This very interesting news came to us from Pensions…

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