Posts Tagged ‘Data’
More Data Breaches Reported
Data breaches are all too common and for those whose lives and livelihoods are affected, they can be scary. We understand that there are nefarious characters out there; thieves who will do what they can to fraudulently steal information. But when their actions are compounded by cover-ups and falsehoods, who are the victims and who…
Read MoreData Everywhere
The world is dominated by data. In the last five years, the amount and types of data now available to us has exploded. Big data plays an important part in mining unstructured data to find the gems. DATAVERSITY discusses this in the article, “Four Phases to an Agile Data Governance Implementation.” As the world’s data needs and…
Read MoreThe Many Faces of Cyber Attacks
Cyber attacks come in all shapes and sizes. It can be as simple as an email that looks like it comes from your bank and includes an urgent link for you to click or a more obvious scam asking you to send money upfront to receive an unclaimed inheritance. It is important to take a…
Read MoreThe Most Valuable Asset
Data is a valuable commodity. It is important to focus on the technology of data as well as the governance. This interesting topic came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Data Governance vs. Data Architecture.” Data governance is a system of decision rights and accountabilities for information-related processes. It includes the processes and framework involved…
Read MoreNew Moniker for Data Information Leader
The term CDO has long referred to Chief Data Officer, but there are some industry professionals would like to see this changed to Chief Digital Officer. This interesting information came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Dawn of the Chief Digital Officer.” Lobbying for the change, Langley Eide, Chief Strategy Officer at Data Science and…
Read MoreAdding Quality to the Data
What do you call poor data hygiene? Bad BI? Machine learning is being used to clean up data management protocols. This interesting topic came to us from ZD Net in their article, “The great data science hope: Machine learning can cure your terrible data hygiene.” Maintaining good data hygiene is tough, especially when you are…
Read MoreLIFE Imagines Indexed
LIFE magazine is using machine learning to organize over 4 million images from the LIFE magazine archives into an interactive encyclopedia. LIFE magazine was published weekly between 1936 and 1972 and monthly from 1978 to 2000, safely making it the most popular photojournalism magazine in the United States. This iconic magazine was brought back to…
Read MoreSafeguarding the Data
The upsurge of digital transformation is creating a greater cyber threat for India. To safeguard its critical assets from perilous cyber attacks, India needs to robustly upgrade its cyber architecture. This interesting topic came to us from DNA India in their article, “Make allocation for cybersecurity.” 2017 brought a plethora of cyber attacks and data breaches. With…
Read MoreDigital or Retail: Selecting Books Have Changed
Bookstores’ footprints, business concepts and strategies have morphed over the past few decades in very drastic ways. Founder Jeff Bezos first launched Amazon as an online bookstore in 1995. The impact of an online bookstore providing not just discounts on the books, but speed and ease in having them show up at your door –…
Read MoreBehavioral Health Embraces AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used more and more in technology to clone human behaviors. It is also being utilized alongside analytics to make predictions. Consider AI the new crystal ball of technology. This interesting topic came to us from Medical Xpress in their article, “Prediction of psychotic onset with AI language analysis.” The IBM…
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