Posts Tagged ‘Technology’
Predicting Behavior
We have all experienced it. You are browsing a retail website but you don’t purchase anything. Later, the same day or after a week, you are on Facebook or another non-retail website and the ads that pop up in your feed or on the side are the exact items you were pondering to purchase. No,…
Read MoreWhat’s Ahead for 2017?
It is not really possible to say what will happen for everyone everywhere, but we can predict within our own spheres of influence. Semantic Cross Searching as a Service Employees are the most valuable assets in any organization. The 1994 Chen study determined that 24% of employee time was spent looking for information. In 2016…
Read MoreHealth IT Content Strategies Gets Some Help
HIMSS Media recently launched the Media Lab to deliver content strategies for healthcare technology audiences. The Media Lab applies a scientific approach to better align clients’ content needs with distinct, data-supported Health IT buyer personas. This interesting information came to us from My San Antonio in their article, “HIMSS Media Lab is Launched to Lift Audience…
Read MoreSmarter Machines
I know, with a title like that the inner sci-fi geek in you just went, “whaaat?” Granted, artificial intelligence (AI) devices may be best known from futuristic novels or or blockbuster movies, but there are some really cool things happening with those technologies today. Government Technology brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Tech Giants…
Read MoreYear In Review
It’s that time of year where we look back on the previous year sometimes with joy and laughter, other times with sorrow and angst. Then we follow it up with starting over, a renewal in the new year, with new excitement, hopes and dreams. Here are some of the top 2016 lists gathered from across…
Read MoreLearn More About Data Visualization
An educational opportunity in the form of a webinar is available for January 24th at 12:00 p.m. (EST). The webinar is brought to you by the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) and is titled, “Achieving Better Visual Communication: Best Practices in Data Visualization.” The webinar is being facilitated by Teresa Larsen, PhD, President and…
Read MoreLearning from the Data
Obtaining valuable insights faster from large, diverse data sets seems to be the primary goal in business. Unfortunately, the current options don’t work all that well — the data warehouse and conventional data lake, as well as Hadoop-based point solutions, all have their challenges. This interesting information came to us from the Smart Data Collective in…
Read MoreBig Data Challenges
Big data and analytics are being used to find patterns and trends, and to predict the results of certain activities. This interesting information came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “The Future of Big Data: Smart Data Innovations and Challenges.” Data analytics and data science techniques are becoming a common approach to processing big data.…
Read MoreManaging Data in an Everchanging Environment
Data is becoming increasingly valuable, regardless of the industry. Information Management brought this news to us in their article, “Getting Started With a Data Governance Program.” Interestingly, data has always been valuable, but we are just learning new ways of realizing that value. It doesn’t help that executives are getting antsy and feel like they need…
Read MoreDigital Has Its Place
The demise of print is starting to sound like Chicken Little and “the sky is falling.” As early as the 1990s, the CEO of a major professional publisher announced that “print is dead”, though he publicly recanted that statement several years later. Despite the advances in digital technology and e-products, print sales have remained the prize…
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