Posts Tagged ‘Data’
Learning Opportunity Available
Having difficulty managing your data? It accumulates faster than most can decide what to do with it. This free webinar addresses these problems and offers some solution ideas. Sponsored by Alteryx, it’s titled, “Analyzing Billions of Data Rows with Alteryx, Amazon Redshift, and Tableau” and offered on May 3 at 2:00 p.m. EST. Hear from Adrian…
Read MoreWhite Papers Offer Guidance
DATAVERSITY brought us the news of some new white papers being released. One of those is titled “Overcoming the Reality Gap of Big Data.” For those facing the challenges of storage and access for big data, data warehousing as a service brings scalability and flexibility to deliver data to all users and systems that need…
Read MoreUnderstanding Unstructured Data
Text Analytics World is scheduled for June 21-22, 2016 in Chicago. They recently announced one of the keynote speakers, so if you haven’t registered yet, this might convince you. Boris Evelson is the Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester and serves in the Application Development & Delivery role. As a leading expert in business intelligence (BI), he…
Read MoreHealth Analytics Gain New Partner
IBM Watson Health has completed the acquisition of Truven Health Analytics. As the provider of cloud-based healthcare data, analytics and insights, Truven brings more than 8,500 clients to the Watson Health portfolio. In a recent announcement, “IBM Watson Health Closes Acquisition of Truven Health Analytics.” IBM and Truven data scientists will begin the process of using Watson Health’s…
Read MoreJoining the Game
Machine Zone is known as a top-ranked mobile game company, but now it has launched a platform that lets other companies license its cloud technology that will enable many millions of people to communicate and interact in real time. This interesting information came to us from Venture Beat in their article, “Machine Zone launches cloud platform to process…
Read MoreHolding Your Data Hostage
A series of ransomware attacks directed at hospitals in the United States is not only making many nervous but also highlighting the vulnerability of private health records. Hackers prey on healthcare facilities with the ability to pay and the need to protect their data. Enterprise Tech brought this news to our attention in their article, “Hospital…
Read MoreArchiving History in the Making
It is always exciting (at least to me) to find interesting and unique uses of technology and digital archiving. This item certainly fits that definition. The Ukrainian Weekly brought this interesting story to our attention in their article, “Spiritual heritage documentation project identifies nearly 600 endangered churches.” In Edmonton, Alberta, the Sanctuary: the Spiritual Heritage Documentation Project has documented…
Read MoreThe Fight Over Data
Data is in the news again and now it is in the middle of a tug-o-war. Wired brought this news to us in their article, “The Apple-FBI Battle Is Over, But the New Crypto Wars Have Just Begun.” Apple and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have been in a standoff for weeks over the…
Read MoreMetadata’s Role
The word “metadata” has been spoken so many times in news reports over the past few years that it is surely now part of the collective public consciousness. But how well does the average American understand what metadata is and how it is used? This interesting question came to us from EdSurge in their article, “Making Sense of…
Read MoreEducational Opportunity on Dealing with Big Data
Sometimes great learning opportunities pass us by because it didn’t fit with our schedule to attend a seminar or even a webinar. This time you can attend anytime it is convenient for you. This free recorded webcast titled, “Data Transformation, Processing & Analytics” addresses the variety of data processing systems, and industry experts share their…
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