Gaining Value from Data

Big data is no longer new news. It is has made it to the mainstream and businesses are reporting tangible results. But has the full potential of big data been reached? DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Big Data, Make Room for Precision Data.” A recent survey of executives in various industries reported…

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Relationships: The Good, the Bad, and the Analyzed?

Relationships can be challenging at best. Relationships with family, friends and people in general contain facets and dynamics that are evolving and often contentious. When it comes to data content, relationships are just as important and just as volatile. Latent semantic indexing (LSI) is a natural language processing technique that analyzes relationships between a set of documents and…

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Learning Opportunity Tomorrow

Start your week out right and plan to join the webinar, “Noise to Signal: The Biggest Problem in Data“, tomorrow, June 26th at 2:00 p.m. EST. The ability to produce, ingest and store data has grown exponentially, but not enough. With the onset of self-service analytics, anyone can create a report and an insight. There…

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IoT Technology Partnership

In the world of mergers and collaborations, the recent partnership between Ontology, a high-performance public blockchain project and Chains of Things (COT) is interesting at the very least. It is the first time Ontology has partnered with another technology company, for one. Under the partnership, Ontology and COT will together build a platform incorporating COT’s…

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VP of Semantic Technology Needed

To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, semantic technology, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving.…

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Machine and Deep Learning Increase Adoption

Recently Google released its next generation of on-device computer vision networks – MobileNewtV2. Google is claiming a substantially faster process for the same accuracy across the entire latency spectrum. HPC Wire brought this news to our attention in their article, “Google Releases Improved Neural Networks for Vision Recognition.” Various Google-developed machine learning and deep learning tools…

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Using the Data

Organizations are always looking for ways to use data to gain an understanding of customers as individuals and use those insights to build long-term retail relationships. This starts with semantically enriching the data. This interesting topic came to our attention from CMS Wire in their article, “Enhance Your Customer Experiences With Semantic Data Enrichment.” But first, what is…

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Big Media Merger Leaves Many Winners

AT&T closed its merger with Time Warner this past week. They completed the $85 billion deal ahead of its June 20 deadline. So what does this mean? Who is the big winner in this mess? The Washington Post brought us this news in their article, “It’s official: AT&T-Time Warner is a done deal.” AT&T is mostly…

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Records Management Challenges

It is the general feeling that things are fairer, easier and more democratic in Canada. And while that might be the case in some circumstances, it is not a broad sweep fact. Accessing public records in Canada has the same challenges as the United States and other bureaucratic processes. The Star out of Canada brought this…

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Machine Learning Working to Improve Data Quality

Data quality has always been important and that continues to be fact. However, because business data requires thorough cleansing and preparation to be used as input to any analytics or business intelligence system, it might be even more important than ever. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “The Impact of Data…

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