Big Data and the Cloud

The big data world is under a shiny spotlight because of the flurry of activity with cloud access and Hadoop technology implementation. In an increasingly cloud-friendly business landscape, more and more global businesses are moving to the cloud.  DATAVERSITY brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Data Governance and Serverless Computing.” The…

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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 microorganisms of the world. On a global stage and in light of political and/or religious battles, museums are often the first thing to strike back against culture, and by association, taxonomies. This…

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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 or misinterpret the available data, leading to incorrect results. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Fundamentals of Self-Service Business Intelligence.” Experienced data scientists have a tremendous ability…

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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 to us from KTVZ from Oregon in their article, “OSU: Big data helping improve diagnoses, treatment.” When it comes to medical data, patients are now being more precisely diagnosed and treated,…

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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 years has been frantic and left many organizations without a game plan. Inside Big Data brought this topic to us in their article, “Are Data Lakes Just Dumping Grounds?” Finding a way…

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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 to information. This includes being able to control data permissions and provisions to avoid over-sharing of data. PR Newswire brought this interesting information to us in their release, “Panoply Announces New…

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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 of data being produced and that will impact the way big data is handled. DATAVERSITY brought this news to us in their article, “How Will the Internet of Things (IoT) Impact…

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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 galvanized this obsession with development and investment in technology trends. Such is the relentless pace of our pursuit of better and faster that innovations become outdated in a matter of weeks.…

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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 analysis, and latent semantic indexing methods. Inside Big Data brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Best of arXiv.org for AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning – August 2018.” The…

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