Natural Language Processing Interprets Data

Making data findable and usable is no easy task. Searching, finding and and analyzing data patterns from the varied data sources requires advanced technology. This interesting information came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Identify Data Patterns with Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.” Organizations that are armed with the latest technologies like natural language…

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Analyzing Relationships

Latent semantic indexing (LSI) is a natural language processing technique that analyzes relationships between a set of documents and the terms they contain. The result? Search engines can identify related terms for keywords by researching through billions of pages and use these findings to evaluate whether a web page offers truly comprehensive content related to a…

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Net Neutrality and Its Importance to Academia

The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has voted to repeal net neutrality rules enacted in 2015 to stop Internet service providers (ISPs) from blocking and tightening control on content. So what does this mean for academics in the digital world? This topic came to us from EdSurge in their article, “Will Net Neutrality Reversal Hurt Digital Learning? As Vote…

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Classifications of Those Rejected

You already know my fascination with odd taxonomies and classifications. Remember the deeper dive into Tom Cruise movies? Or how about the post identifying traits of hipsters? And let’s not forget the one on coffee… mmm coffee. So when I see an article titled, “A taxonomy of the jilted“, you know I can’t just scroll…

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A Semantic Analysis of Constitutions

Using big data analytics techniques, researchers at Dartmouth College have created a taxonomy of the world’s constitutions. This analysis is discussed in the EurekAlert! article “Big data creates family tree of constitutions.”  EurekAlert! is a service of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The Dartmouth study applied subject indexing to the documents in order to define constitutional topics, and…

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AI Everywhere

The typical pattern we see in technological advancement is an increase in performance, cost reduction, and increased public access after a new technology hits the market.  Not so with health care, it seems.  The increase in technology in the healthcare arena tends to add extra layers to an already-complicated system, which translates to increased costs…

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Managing Unstructured Data

Organizations rely on digitized unstructured data for insights in terms of business decisions. In this world of information overload, around 80% of data collected is unstructured, assembled from emails, social media feeds and user devices. CIO Review brought this information to our attention in their article, “Analyzing Unstructured Data.” Analyzing unstructured data can be challenging. If…

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Integrating Data

Big data disruption has resulted in the need to rapidly integrate and exchange data of all types among disparate systems, applications and infrastructure. This requires a new approach. KM World brought this news to our attention in their article, “Disrupting the data landscape again with linked open data.” As the focus shifts from internal, proprietary…

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