2017 Fall Seminar: New Directions in Society & Nonprofit Publishing

The Society for Scholarly Publishing is offering a fall seminar on New Directions in Society & Nonprofit Publishing. Mark your calendars for October 4, 2017 at 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. The event is also offered in virtual meeting format. Society-based and other non-profit publishers face unique challenges in an ever-changing information landscape. How do…

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Who is the Scientist?

To be successful in business, every organization must find a way to accurately forecast and predict the future of its market, not to mention its internal operations. DATAVERSITY brought this news to us in their article, “Do Citizen Data Scientists Mark the Death of Data Scientists?” Having a better understanding of customers’ buying behavior is not…

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Telling a Story with Data

When people hear the term “storytelling,” they think of Winnie the Pooh or maybe Brahm’s Fairy Tales. However, a story can be told in various forms and mediums, like photos and even data. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to us in their article, “How to Tell a Great Story with Data.” The approach is simple. Get…

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Analyzing Content

OpenText has recently launched an artificial intelligence platform that combines big data and human language analytics to help companies better understand the needs of customers. The Record brought this news to us in their article, “OpenText makes big move into artificial intelligence.” The platform is called OpenText Magellan and it was designed to analyze words and text,…

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Analytics and Business Intelligence

Descriptive analytics is the conventional form of business intelligence and data analysis. It seeks to provide a depiction or summary view of facts and figures in an understandable format. DATAVERSITY brought this topic to our attention in their article, “Fundamentals of Descriptive Analytics.” Descriptive analytics uses two primary techniques, data aggregation and data mining, to report…

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Libraries and Journals are Main Focus

Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has partnered with EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) to broaden the availability of SAGE’s journals portfolio to North American public, corporate, medical, and other special libraries. This interesting news came from Knowledge Speak in their article, “SAGE Publishing and EBSCO extend partnership to expand distribution of SAGE’s journals portfolio.” EBSCO will begin selling SAGE’s…

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Going to the Future with AI

Social, cloud, analytics and mobile technologies have been the cool kids for the past few years. Some are predicting that artificial intelligence (AI) is the emerging tech trend with the biggest potential. Computer Weekly brought this news to our attention in their article, “AI tipped as top tech trend of next decade.” The key AI technologies…

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Analyzing Text

The ability to examine and analyze text for insights can make a huge difference in solving business problems. From simple questions to complex application requirements, determining what content really contains and how it can benefit the business is a critical skill in today’s business environment. This interesting information came to us from KM World in their article,…

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Taxonomy in Technology

Technology is almost always a good investment for government agencies, especially if they are looking to justify information technology (IT) modernization. This interesting information came to us from GCN in their article, “How to talk about IT modernization.” A four-stage taxonomy has been developed to help stakeholders understand the full scope of digital transformation efforts. The…

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