Posts Tagged ‘Access Insights’
The Rest of the Story
Last week we discussed the valuable information and story that data, specifically DNA data, can reveal. I shared our experience with canine DNA and what story our dogs’ DNA told us. We did the canine experiments several years ago and valued the information provided to us by the company about breed specific diseases, behaviors, etc.…
Read MoreData Harmony Users Group Starts This Week
Access Innovations, Inc. is pleased to host the 13th annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting this week in Albuquerque. DHUG brings together current and prospective users of the Data Harmony software to present case studies, network, and share ideas. DHUG also includes a software features update and release of the updated software follows shortly after…
Read MoreA Little Fuzzy
When I bought my first and only rice cooker a decade ago, many of the higher rated models bragged about fuzzy logic technology. Fuzzy rice? I like fluffy rice, but not so sure about fuzzy. Even though I didn’t really understand it at the time of purchase, the reviews sold me that this genius intuitive…
Read MoreAccess Innovations Speaking at the 2018 iA Summit
Access Innovations will be bringing a little fun and a lot of technical expertise to the 2018 iA Summit, which is scheduled for March 21-25, 2018 in Chicago, IL. Bob Kasenchak, our Director of Business Development, will be giving a presentation entitled “Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich? and Other Taxonomy Questions“. Bob will bring…
Read More2018 Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) Keynote Announced
The 13th annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting is just around the corner. The keynote speaker for Wednesday, February 7th is Martin Klein, Scientist in the Research Library at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. His presentation is titled, “Towards Web-Centric Repository Interoperability.” In this talk Martin will outline the Signposting concept for repositories – a standards-based …
Read MoreClassifying the Un-classifiable
Traditional classifications of animals, medicine, diseases, and other vastly dense topics can feel like reciting pi – infinite data with infinite possibilities. While there may be limits in a particular software, like SharePoint, to how many terms and levels can be in a taxonomy, the reality is there are subjects that are quite possibly endless.…
Read MoreData Scientists and Business Analysts
Artificial intelligence (AI) and its “cousin” technology, machine learning, find themselves being utilized in a variety of circumstances and organizations. Though they cannot completely replace the human brain, scientists are still working to train them to think and feel like humans in more and more lifelike ways. Machine learning has especially become the “teacher’s pet”…
Read MoreGhost of Taxonomies Present
Much they saw, and far they went, and many homes they visited, but always with a happy end. The Spirit stood beside sick beds, and they were cheerful; on foreign lands, and they were close at home; by struggling men, and they were patient in their greater hope; by poverty, and it was rich. (From…
Read MoreAnalyzing Relationships
Latent semantic indexing (LSI) is a natural language processing technique that analyzes relationships between a set of documents and the terms they contain. The result? Search engines can identify related terms for keywords by researching through billions of pages and use these findings to evaluate whether a web page offers truly comprehensive content related to a…
Read MoreDonner, Blitzen and Who?
The festive legend says that Santa Claus’s reindeer pull a sleigh through the night sky to help Santa Claus deliver gifts to children on Christmas Eve. The names of the eight reindeer are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen. The enduring popularity of the Christmas song “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” has led to Rudolph joining the list, bringing the number of Santa Claus’s reindeer up to nine. But…
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