The Challenges With AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to fill the headlines each and every day. New advances, new applications and new ways for AI to change and improve our lives. This all powerful technology with seemingly endless possibilities actually does have some restrictions and limitations. DATAVERSITY brought this news to our attention in their article, “Seven Things Artificial…
Read More1776 Was A Leap Year
The United States will celebrate its Independence Day – July 4th – this week. Fireworks, parades, cookouts, music–the typical content of a 4th of July celebration. It’s a time when many people relax, have fun, and wave the American flag. But who stops to think about what the 4th of July means? Sure, we learned in middle school…
Read MoreEDW Conference Call for Presentations
Enterprise Data World is looking for presenters at the March 17-22, 2019 23rd Annual Enterprise Data World Conference (EDW) in Boston. You can share your skills and knowledge with over 1,000 attending data professionals from around the world. The EDW conference is recognized as the most comprehensive educational conference on data management in the world. Join hundreds of data professionals from around the…
Read MoreLondon Seminar Focuses on Collaboration
A new educational opportunity is available from the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) titled, “The Power of Partnership and Collaboration in the Publishing Industry.” It is being held in London, UK on July 12, 2018. This all day seminar will explore real examples of the strategic partnerships and innovative collaborations being forged…
Read MoreAccessing Metadata for Peer Review Content
Flexible registering of peer review content and associated discussions of published content is on many academic professionals wish list. To meet this request, Crossref has extended its infrastructure to not only support the registration of this content, but also the easy retrieval, use and reuse of it, through its public API. This interesting information came to…
Read MoreWebinar Addresses Data Technologies and Knowledge Lakes
An interesting learning opportunity from Gigaom in their webinar, “Combining Data Technologies to Create Knowledge Lakes, scheduled for July 10, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. (CDT). The number of innovative products and technologies in the analytics world is massive and continues to grow. Unfortunately, so is the effort and expertise required to use them together effectively. There is…
Read MoreWatson Technology and Financial Risks
IBM’s Watson is taking on the financial world to improve risk management. Forbes brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “IBM’s Watson Takes On Risk And Regulation In Finance.” This new initiative has several components beginning with the financial risks that are associated with portfolios. The next piece is about operational risks, which includes…
Read MoreIndexing the Past
Officials of one small town are looking for some professional help to preserve records. These aren’t just your ordinary county clerk records; some of these date back to the 1700s before town government was formally established. Newsday brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Historical documents a treasure trove for Town of…
Read MoreGaining 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…
Read MoreRelationships: 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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