Debate Over Online Articles
The scientific community is part of a conflict that centers around copyright infringement and online piracy. This isn’t a new problem, but has been lifted higher in everyone’s awareness after Alexandra Elbaykyan, a graduate student based in Russia, set up Sci-Hub—an online database of 50 million stolen scholarly journal articles. The Innovation Files brought this interesting…
Read MoreLibraries of Old and New
The ancient Library of Alexandria was a working resource for scholars. The ancient image of a library as a place for scholars to collaborate, eat, read, and think continues even in the digital form. MIT News brought this interesting news to us in their article, “The once and future library.” Libraries have long been places where…
Read MoreLearning Opportunity Available
Having difficulty managing your data? It accumulates faster than most can decide what to do with it. This free webinar addresses these problems and offers some solution ideas. Sponsored by Alteryx, it’s titled, “Analyzing Billions of Data Rows with Alteryx, Amazon Redshift, and Tableau” and offered on May 3 at 2:00 p.m. EST. Hear from Adrian…
Read MoreWhite Papers Offer Guidance
DATAVERSITY brought us the news of some new white papers being released. One of those is titled “Overcoming the Reality Gap of Big Data.” For those facing the challenges of storage and access for big data, data warehousing as a service brings scalability and flexibility to deliver data to all users and systems that need…
Read MoreUnderstanding Unstructured Data
Text Analytics World is scheduled for June 21-22, 2016 in Chicago. They recently announced one of the keynote speakers, so if you haven’t registered yet, this might convince you. Boris Evelson is the Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester and serves in the Application Development & Delivery role. As a leading expert in business intelligence (BI), he…
Read MoreDynamic Duo
When you suspect your system has been compromised, the work has only just begun. You start the process of sifting through all of the data to find abnormalities and that takes a lot of time and effort. This is when artificial intelligence (AI) shines. This interesting information came to our attention at “MIT is Teaching AI…
Read MoreInside the Name
Tax day has come and gone to our personal relief, at least for most of us. Paperwork is the one thing that could easily drive me to living off the grid and hiding away from civilized society. This may have also been what prompted one author to ask “How does nature file its taxas?” National Geographic brought this…
Read MoreThinking Outside the Words
With necessity being the mother of invention, this particular blogger/developer created a tool to serve the purpose of a thesaurus construction application. You may know it as www.thesauri.co.uk. Further developments more recently attempted to bring it into line with the International Standard (BS ISO 25964-1). There are challenges and the journey isn’t complete but there are lessons…
Read MoreEvery Day Semantic Technology
Artificial intelligence (AI) is headline news almost every day. New advancements are made more personal with the advantages of semantic understanding and natural language technology. IT ProPortal brought this information to our attention in their article, “How semantic technology is making sense of our big data.” One of the latest is AlphaGo – a computer program developed by…
Read MoreCommas, Hyphens, and Rules – Oh my!
Word nerds might unite or divide around this topic, but the Associated Press (AP) Stylebook is always good for a hearty conversation. The Baltimore Sun brought this topic to us in their article, “A challenge to the AP Stylebook editors.” Whether it is the serial comma issue or the apostrophe debate, writers and editors are…
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