Sharing Data

We were taught in kindergarten about the benefits of sharing. The same principles apply with data. This interesting topic came to us from EOS in their article, “Sharing Data Helps Puerto Ricans Rebound After Hurricane Maria.” Sharing data enables many wonderful things. Better treatment for patients when data is shared across providers, encourages more connection…

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Future Data Scientists

With technology and automation evolving, the role of a data scientist is increasing in numbers and need. This information came to us from Tech Target in their article, “A future data scientist needs business, deep learning skills.” The future data scientist role may look different, with a heavier focus on business operations and oversight, not just…

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Strategic Tools

Emerging technologies are quickly changing the previous concerns over privacy and other negative consequences. They are finally being recognized as the strategic tools of business they were always intended to be. Information Week brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Lead with Purpose: Data, Analytics Cultural Challenges.” When it comes to data analytics…

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Methods to Manage Big Data

Businesses today are struggling to analyze and extract full value from the wealth of data being generated. Customer Think brought this information to our attention in their article, “The rise of the ‘citizen data scientist’ – how humanized machine learning is augmenting human intelligence.” Even with spreadsheets full of data, they are overwhelmed with data and…

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Managing the Growing Data

Data analytics is the pursuit of extracting meaning from raw data using specialized computer systems. These systems can transform, organize, and model the data to draw conclusions and identify patterns. This interesting information came to us from the Harvard Business Review in their article, “How Third-Party Information Can Enhance Data Analytics.” Companies have to master data…

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The Growth of Data

Data is definitely expanding exponentially, but it might not be the critical situation many predict. This interesting topic came to us from Gigabit in their article, “Can your customer data platform facilitate the right decisions?” Data is very important because it enables organizations to learn more about their customers and offer them better service. So more…

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Senior Item Taxonomy Analyst Opportunity

To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, semantic technology, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving.…

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Predictive Analytics in Healthcare

Predictive analytics is becoming more common in the technological vernacular. Even so, not everyone understands just what it is. Predictive analytics is the use of data, statistical algorithms and machine learning techniques to identify the likelihood of future outcomes based on historical data. CIO brought this news to us in their article, “7 projects primed for predictive analytics.”…

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Social Transportation

Technology has enabled many things in our current reality few would have guessed. One of those are the ride sharing electric scooters that just seem to appear on the downtown corner, in a driveway or dumped in a park. Their sheer existence and the technology around renting one pushes the boundaries on social technology. Forbes brought…

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Names Are Important

In the 18th century, Carl Linnaeus published a system for classifying living things, which has been developed into the modern classification system. People have always given names to things that they see, but Linnaeus was the first scientist to develop a hierarchal naming structure that conveyed information both about what the species was and also its closest relatives. Today…

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