Social Data
Demographic data provided by the Census Bureau is critical for social scientists and economists. However, it is not known for its ease of use. […]
May 2017
The Librarian Pioneers
In this era of digital libraries, machine assisted indexing and technological advancements that seem to evolve on a daily basis, it is more than […]
Linguistic Challenges in Foreign Languages
Linguistic traps can be embarrassing and horrific, depending on the guffaw. It could result in more than embarrassment over using the wrong verb when […]
Thieves Are Knocking at the Door
Theft is on the rise. A few months ago Yahoo revealed they had been hacked in 2014 and over 500 million accounts were the victims […]
Protecting Your Passwords
When life embraced the Internet a few decades ago, passwords were a necessary evil. We chose our pet’s name or birth date or some […]
Machine Learning and Security
Machine learning contributes to many other technologies, e.g. fraud detection, search engines, etc. By automatically discovering patterns that lead to insights and creating predictive models that […]
Finding Credibility
In November I wrote an article about deciphering fact from fiction but I didn’t cover the whole fake news craze. Perhaps in my naivety […]
PLOS Looking for Associate Editors
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, digital archiving, etc., we are sharing with our readers any career […]
AI 24/7
What does artificial intelligence (AI) have to do with content management? CMS Wire brought this news to us in their article, “12 Ways AI Has or […]
Going Deep on Social
Facebook has released what they are calling a deep-learning-based text understanding engine that is designed to leverage neural network architectures. The ultimate goal is to […]
