Indexing the Past

Officials of one small town are looking for some professional help to preserve records. These aren’t just your ordinary county clerk records; some of these date back to the 1700s before town government was formally established. Newsday brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Historical documents a treasure trove for Town of…

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Learning Opportunity Tomorrow

Start your week out right and plan to join the webinar, “Noise to Signal: The Biggest Problem in Data“, tomorrow, June 26th at 2:00 p.m. EST. The ability to produce, ingest and store data has grown exponentially, but not enough. With the onset of self-service analytics, anyone can create a report and an insight. There…

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Using the Data

Organizations are always looking for ways to use data to gain an understanding of customers as individuals and use those insights to build long-term retail relationships. This starts with semantically enriching the data. This interesting topic came to our attention from CMS Wire in their article, “Enhance Your Customer Experiences With Semantic Data Enrichment.” But first, what is…

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Big Media Merger Leaves Many Winners

AT&T closed its merger with Time Warner this past week. They completed the $85 billion deal ahead of its June 20 deadline. So what does this mean? Who is the big winner in this mess? The Washington Post brought us this news in their article, “It’s official: AT&T-Time Warner is a done deal.” AT&T is mostly…

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Machine Learning Working to Improve Data Quality

Data quality has always been important and that continues to be fact. However, because business data requires thorough cleansing and preparation to be used as input to any analytics or business intelligence system, it might be even more important than ever. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “The Impact of Data…

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Semantic Technology and Climate Control

Helsinki climate experts presented an action plan to render the city carbon neutral by 2035 and they used semantic technology as part of their model. Markets Insider brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Helsinki Compiles Building Energy Data into Semantic 3D City ModelEnergy and Climate Atlas is a tool to reach climate…

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Deep Learning in Customer Service

What is deep learning? The terms artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and deep learning are used often and sadly, often interchangeably. But they are not the same things. One way to understand the difference and their relationship to one another is to visualize them as concentric circles with AI — the idea that came first — the largest,…

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