Posts Tagged ‘Analytics’
New Acquisition, Greater Access
Elsevier has announced their acquisition of Plum Analytics from EBSCO Information Services. What does this mean for users? PR Newswire brought this interesting tidbit to our attention in their article, “Elsevier Acquires Leading ‘Altmetrics’ Provider Plum Analytics.” The acquisition will enable Elsevier to significantly expand access to Plum Analytics’ altmetrics to more researchers and more institutions. Plum…
Read MoreThe Opportunity That is Social Media
According to a recent survey, 39% of all businesses participating said they do not do any form of social media tracking or monitoring in their organization. Considering how prevalent social media is these days, and not just for personal use, this number is surprising. This interesting information came to us from Open PR in their article,…
Read MorePredicting Behavior
We have all experienced it. You are browsing a retail website but you don’t purchase anything. Later, the same day or after a week, you are on Facebook or another non-retail website and the ads that pop up in your feed or on the side are the exact items you were pondering to purchase. No,…
Read MoreUnlocking Data with Graph Databases
Ontotext has released GraphDB 8 – the latest version of their semantic graph database. It features a new data transformation functionality that makes it easier to leverage legacy data, establish interlinked enterprise master data and ultimately build a 360-degree data view. Yahoo Finance brought this news to us in their article, “GraphDB 8 Builds 360-degree Enterprise Data…
Read MoreEarly Bird Pricing Ends Friday
This year’s Association of American Publishers Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) conference is scheduled for February 1-3, 2017 in Washington D.C. The focus this year is “Adding Value in the Age of Open” and is loaded with great opportunities to learn, share and network. The early bird registration has been extended until Friday, January 6th.…
Read MoreGraph Analytics Event
Mark your calendars and add this conference to your “must attend” list for 2017. At Graphorum you will learn how property and semantic graphs work individually and together to save you money and time. Graphorum is the perfect place to connect with chief scientists, software engineers, data scientists, data architects, and technology strategists. This conference…
Read MoreSearch Games
When I was a kid I used to love playing Mad Libs. My friends and I would work tirelessly to come up with the funniest nonsensical stories. While not quite as cognitive as Mad Libs, but still entertaining, are the various games going around social media involving predictive text. One game is a weird version…
Read MoreBig Data Challenges
Big data and analytics are being used to find patterns and trends, and to predict the results of certain activities. This interesting information came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “The Future of Big Data: Smart Data Innovations and Challenges.” Data analytics and data science techniques are becoming a common approach to processing big data.…
Read MoreNew Webinar Series Address Analytics
DATAVERSITY will be hosting a monthly webinar series in 2017 called Data Insights & Analytics. The free webinars will be facilitated by Kelle O’Neal and John Ladley and held on the first Thursday of every month at 2:00 p.m. (EST) beginning January 5, 2017. Each of the webinars will provide educational resources and insights into the strategy,…
Read MoreNFAIS Webinar Addresses Impact
The next webinar in the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) Webinar series is December 1, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. (EST). This webinar is titled, “Measuring Scholarly Impact: Can One Size Fit All?” With more than two million research articles published annually in authoritative, respected scholarly journals, it can be a challenge to discern which articles to…
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