Inhouse Skillbuilding

Data scientists can be an expensive ticket for individual organizations to keep on staff. As an alternative, many organizations direct resources to improve their existing staff’s analytics skills. This includes predictive analytics. This interesting topic was brought to us by the Harvard Business Review in their article, “3 Common Mistakes That Can Derail Your Team’s Predictive…

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Safety in Numbers

There is much discussion in the news about the safety of your personal data. Do you know how safe your data might be? Do you know all the locations that hold your data? Don’t worry, few people do. Protecting your personal data has never been more important. In a post-Cambridge Analytica world, the followup question is whether…

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Cognitive Computing Increasing in Demand

The market of healthcare cognitive computing is anticipated to grow significantly in the coming years. Many factors are contributed for this growth, including the increasing number of chronic diseases and the technical advancements in the healthcare industry. This topic came to us from Market Watch in their article, “Healthcare Cognitive Computing Market to Represent a…

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Addressing Language Ambiguity

Making sense of text information is becoming a key asset for businesses. The ability to automate repetitive, cognitive tasks is crucial to improving efficiency and as a result, profitability. Analytics Insight brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “A Pioneering Natural Language Understanding Platform Processing Intelligent Text.” Natural language processing (NLP) is a branch…

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Educational Opportunity from ALPSP

The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) is offering an online webinar educational opportunity titled, “Driving Usage, Demonstrating Value.” It is scheduled for December 5, 2018 at 10:30-12am EST. Driving and measuring usage of subscriptions is critical both to publishers and librarians in demonstrating the value of scholarly resources to readers and researchers…

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Uncommon Sense

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a division of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies. To put this into perspective, this 60-year-old agency proposed and prototyped the precursor to the world wide web. This interesting information came to us from Venture Beat in their article, “DARPA wants to build ‘contextual’…

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AI Then and Now

Necessity is the mother of invention. Well, maybe. This interesting topic came to us from Analytics India in their article, “Rugged Information Architecture Is Key To AI Growth In Enterprises.” Regardless of the incentive, every invention has taken time to perfect itself. The first telephone wasn’t perfect, neither were the automobile or x-ray machine. Artificial…

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Taxonomy of Sorts

If you have been a reader of TaxoDiary for any amount of time, you know that I like finding odd and unique taxonomies. I find it comforting to know that taxonomies exist in all parts of our lives, not just information science or biology. NPR brought this heartwarming taxonomy to us in their article, “Tag Yourself (I’m A Maggie):…

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