Taxonomy Under Attack
Taxonomy is the science of naming, describing and classifying. Typically you think of taxonomies when it comes to organisms such as plants, animals and […]
Data Science, Self-Serve Style
Self-Service Business Intelligence (SSBI) is new to the business community. The data science community is concerned that professional business users, however educated, may misunderstand […]
Precision Medicine Based on Ontologies
Ontologies are systematic descriptions of knowledge that allow for integration and analysis of lots of data. In other words, big data. This interesting topic came […]
Big Answers for Big Data
Big data is a common term, but hasn’t been for that long. The growth of data, in all its forms, during the last five […]
The Importance of Data Governance
Data governance has never been more important. In fact, Panoply recently announced a new data governance functionality called “Teams” that is designed for proper access […]
Bringing Meaning to Life
We use the word semantic a lot around here. In software, semantic technology encodes meanings separately from data and content files, and separately from application code. This […]
The Relationship of the Internet of Things and Big Data
The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way we interact with things, i.e. objects, appliances, etc. As a result, there is massive amounts […]
Get Smart
A technology revolution began at the turn of the century and we’re still riding it. The proliferation of the smartphone and the internet has […]
Mapping the Connections
Semantic maps can visually display a word or phrase and a set of related words or concepts. They can be an alternative to random mapping, principal components […]