Posts Tagged ‘Analytics’
Keeping the Eye on the Prize
It is pretty simple. Companies think information management is about automating knowledge worker processes, predictive analytics or big data, but they are wrong. CMS Wire brought this news to us in their article, “Stop Complicating Information Management.” It comes down to helping users find their data and removing anything that makes that process difficult. Even though this…
Read MoreVoila! It’s Magic
A combination of advancements in cognitive computing, graph databases, visualizations, and data discovery have resulted in an amazing reduction in the delivery time of analytics results. Visual querying uses interactive visualizations that enable users to look at and select the relevant data for questions, which allows the underlying systems to write the code necessary to perform…
Read MoreThe Future with Machine Learning
Machine learning is a form of artificial intelligence (AI) which allows computers to learn by way of observation and experience, rather than just programming. It may sound a little science fiction-like, but machine learning uses computer programs that are capable of growth and change as they process new data. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to us…
Read MorePublishing Gets a Depressing Report Card
Industry reports indicate that publishers’ revenues were down in January 2016 as compared to January 2015. The Association of American Publishers (AAP) brought this interesting information to us in their release, “Publishers Sales Down at the Start of 2016, eBooks Decline.” There were double-digit declines in childrens/YA books and adult books, paperback books grew slightly, and…
Read MoreRelating to Your Data
The challenges continue to accumulate in data governance. This is in part due to the variety of data that gets captured and analyzed, and also due to the pressure to maintain complicated relationships among various data elements. Inside Big Data brought this interesting news to us in their article, “Metadata Governance in the World of Big…
Read MoreThe Many Faces of Data
Big data is not always smart data and smart data isn’t necessarily big data. This isn’t a riddle, it is a conundrum. This interesting information came to our attention in DATAVERSITY’s article, “Smart Data Plus Deep Reasoning Equals Business Value from Data Analysis.” Coherent Knowledge helps businesses that want to make more effective use of the…
Read MoreTapping Data Lakes
Semantic computing continues to evolve and especially in the healthcare industry as big data analytics leaders looks to move beyond the basics of population health management, predictive analytics, and risk stratification. Health IT Analytics brought this information to us in their article, “Montefiore Semantic Data Lake Tackles Predictive Analytics.” In contrast to the traditional relational database, this…
Read MoreTracking the Data
Late in 2014, Scholarly Kitchen shared with us a project with Ithaka S+R to research Amazon’s book sales to academic libraries. Some early results are in and they can be viewed on the Ithaka Web site. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Update on a Library Research Project.” The project began at the…
Read MoreRegistration Open for Data Strategy and Analytics Forum
Plan now to attend the Enterprise DATAVERSITY – Data Strategy and Analytics Forum on September 19-22, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois. This year’s educational program is about putting the business first. It focuses on strategy by using enterprise analytics. It’s more than just big data, it is also about agile analytics, data science, and organizational roles and…
Read MoreLearning Opportunities from AAP
There are several webinars and educational opportunities in the works over the next couple weeks with enough variety to find something of interest to you. The Publishing & Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Journals Committee of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) will be featuring guest speaker Cassidy Sugimoto from Indiana University Bloomington to talk about altmetrics in a webinar being offered…
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