Machine Learning Might Get a New Buddy

Scientists working with quantum computing are especially excited with the idea of integrating the quantum world with machine learning. Despite all their achievements, machine learning algorithms and traditional CPUs don’t play well. This might change that situation. This interesting topic came to us from Singularity Hub in their article, “Finally, Proof That Quantum Computing Can Boost…

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Saving The World With Data

Data and technology are used for many things related to business and things not so obviously related to business, including social impact. Data is being used to contribute to solving climate change issues, what their impacts are on the population, and the challenges that come with them. This interesting information came from Clean Technica in their…

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Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting Embraces the Global Perspective

The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) 41st Annual Meeting will be held at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina in San Diego, CA on May 29–31, 2019. The theme for this year’s meeting has been announced and it feels very appropriate considering the current environment the world and academia is experiencing – Shaping the New Status Quo: Global…

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Big Data to Smart Data

More and more data processing tools and next-generation technologies are being developed as various benefits are being realized. In the process, data analytics is also getting more popular. This interesting information came to our attention from Analytics Insight in their release, “Augmented Analytics to Recast Big Data to Smart Data for Improved Insights.” To continue thriving…

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Holy Horrible Thesaurus

There’s a lot you can say about Access Innovations, but if one thing’s for certain, it’s that we’ve built a lot of controlled vocabularies over the last forty years. We’ve seen even more, in all shapes and sizes, some good and some not so good. We’d like to think that every organization would be mindful…

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NKOS Workshop Call for Presentations

The Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) is planning a knowledge organization workshop at the Korean National Library on September 25, 2019 as part of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2019 (DCMI-2019) in Seoul, South Korea. Complete details outlining the requirements for presentation proposals for the NKOS workshop can be found here and the proposal submission…

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Careers in the Cloud

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services over the Internet, a.k.a. the cloud. This method offers faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale. So it should be no surprise that more and more functions are being done in the clouds. As a result more careers are being impacted and even created by cloud…

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Augmented Analytics Set to Change Things

Augmented analytics, an approach that automates insights using machine learning and natural-language generation, is likely the next wave of change in the data and analytics market. Augmented analytics automates data insights and provides clearer information, which is not possible with traditional analysis tools. This next-generation technology will drive the smart data market. Smart Cities World…

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Building It Right From the Start

We are overflowing with data, but is it useful data? That is a question posed recently at IBM’s Think Gov Conference. In today’s information revolution, federal agencies collect and disseminate heaps of data by the hour, or maybe by the minute. Is it helpful? Nextgov brought this topic to us in their article, “Agencies Can Do Better…

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Data Warehouse and Machine Learning

A logical data warehouse is an architectural layer that sits atop the usual data warehouse store of persistent data. The logical layer provides several mechanisms for viewing data in the warehouse store and elsewhere across an enterprise without relocating and transforming data ahead of view time. Information Management brought this interesting information to our attention in…

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