Source: meritalk.com The geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) industry and workforce is undergoing a seismic shift driven by artificial intelligence (AI), with 91 percent of stakeholders believing AI has the potential to greatly improve GEOINT productivity, capacity, and capability. That potential impact, however, appears to be racing ahead of on-the-ground planning as just 33 percent of GEOINT Read More
Category: Data Mining
Data Mining
Source: computerweekly.com Civil liberties campaigning group Privacy International is questioning the role of Silicon Valley data mining company Palantir in the NHS’s data analysis programme. NHSX and NHS England Improvement reported at the end of March that they had engaged Palantir alongside Microsoft, Google and London-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm Faculty to build a “data platform” to Read More
Source: pymnts.com “While it may feel counterintuitive to look backward in order to move forward in the face of significant economic events,” Payrix Chief Risk and Compliance Officer Billi Jo Wright told PYMNTS, “applying the proper data mining, data analytics tools and action plans to your business’ wealth of transactional data may provide a roadmap through adverse Read More
Source: saratogian.com TROY, N.Y. — A researcher from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is suggesting that the coronavirus will peak in the Capital Region in the second half of May or early June. Malik Magdon-Ismail tailored a robust machine learning model that can predict pandemic impact even in smaller cities, with 75% of the population in the Capital Region in Read More
Source: threatpost.com Zoom has nixed a feature that came under fire for “undisclosed data mining” of users’ names and email addresses, used to match them with their LinkedIn profiles. The feature, the LinkedIn Sales Navigator, is a LinkedIn service used for sales prospecting. When users enter a web conference meeting, the tool automatically sent their Read More
Source: searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com Data scientists are now part of the gig culture movement, but should you hire a freelancer instead of a full-time data scientist? If you lack data science talent or your existing data science team needs expertise it lacks, such as computer vision or natural language processing, perhaps you should consider a contract hire. Read More
Source: thestar.com While we focus on vaccines, anti-virals and respirators in the fight against COVID-19, there’s another type of technology that gets less attention, but may be even more important in lessening the impact of the pandemic—information technology. Given that we’ve been hearing more and more about the importance of widespread testing, we’re probably less surprised at this Read More
Source: cloutnews.com The Chinese strategy of mass surveillance has, may be, achieved one of the greatest tangible results of the COVID-19 threat so far. Singapore, Israel and China, though pressing the delicate button of the data protection regulation, have implemented strategies of controlled and monitored containment through advanced digital systems, such as drones and data Read More
Source: geospatialworld.net We are witnessing the impact of evolving technology on multiple levels: data collection, analysis, storage, output representation. The cutting-edge collection techniques can gather much more data than ever before at the fastest rates possible. Not just the same data we once obtained, but data sets that now include new metrics such as color, intensity, even temperature. LIDAR data, for Read More
Source: whitehouse.gov Today, researchers and leaders from the Allen Institute for AI, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Microsoft, and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health released the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) of scholarly literature about COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and the Coronavirus group. Requested Read More
Source: meritalk.com The director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and government scientists from countries around the world are calling for publishers to make COVID-19-related research available to the public including in formats where they can apply artificial intelligence (AI) to the task of analyzing the data. Along with OSTP Read More
Source: thepostmillennial.com Every day there seems to be another news story about how large tech companies such as Facebook, Google, TikTok and Amazon handle your data for their personal gain. In many cases, without your knowledge. This information isn’t just your search history. It goes far-far deeper. For example, a Financial Times investigation has found that multiple healthcare Read More
Source: business2community.com Creating a digital transformation roadmap is not a wise idea without assessing the current state of business processes. A typical business process mapping for any enterprise would start with analyzing the current business process, shadowing users during the task, and questioning them about the same. Some enterprises may also extend to a visual Read More
Source: sonomanews.com The Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Alliance (SVVGA) announced at its annual State of the Alliance meeting last month that it will launch a partnership with an online data-mining platform that allows wineries to better understand their own numbers by comparison with their peers. Founded by John Keleher, the Community Benchmark platform uses Read More
Source: Today, with the tremendous growth of data, businesses need an effective team of data scientists to get the real and actionable value of their data. Without the expertise of how to convert cutting-edge technology into significant insights, big data is nothing. Most data scientists have advanced knowledge and training in statistics, math, and computer Read More
Source: analyticsinsight.net The widespread shortage of talented security operations and threat intelligence resources in security operations centers (SOCs) leaves numerous companies open to the increased danger of a security incident. That is on the grounds that they can’t adequately explore all discovered, possibly vindictive practices in their environment in an intensive and repeatable way. While Read More
Source: itproportal.com Research shows that 40 per cent of companies claiming to use artificial intelligence (AI) lack tangible evidence of its application. Without true understanding or legitimate practice the web of confusion in this field grows more and more complex, thanks to a range of buzzwords in the mix including machine learning, data mining, and Read More
Source: phoneswiki.com At the moment, it is difficult to say whether Epic would follow the same plan for Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 2 as it has done earlier. The first season for Fortnite Chapter 2 was longer than usual and made some changes to the game. The second season arrived only a few days ago, and news Read More
Source: telanganatoday.com Hyderabad: Businesses are driven by data, process and people and there is a demand to undertake digital transformation. Market data reveals organizations around the world spent close to $1.2 trillion in 2019 on various digital transformation initiatives, and this is expected to grow at about 20 per cent per year for the next Read More
Source: guardian.ng With the world fast-evolving, and nations gradually becoming less oil dependent, experts have canvassed the importance of data mining for business and economic growth in Nigeria. Data mining is a process used to extract usable data from a larger set of any raw data for information sharing, among others. Speaking in Lagos, at Read More
Source: aithority.com Gartner has recognized SAS as a Leader in its 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. The report evaluated SAS for its completeness of vision and ability to execute. This is the seventh consecutive year for SAS to be recognized as a Leader in this Magic Quadrant. “Machine learning, and more broadly Read More
Source: gigabitmagazine.com Artificial intelligence (AI) relies on big data and machine learning for myriad applications, from autonomous vehicles to algorithmic trading and from clinical decision support systems to data mining. The availability of large amounts of data is essential to the development of AI. But the scandal over the use of personal and social data Read More
Source: ksusentinel.com Kennesaw State Professor of computer science Dr. Dan Lo and his team of students created a program last semester to data mine Chinese social media sites in partnership with the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China. Lo said the program retrieves and deciphers posts on popular Chinese social media outlets like Weibo and WeChat. Lo’s team Read More
Source: fastcompany.com A recent study showing that data entry is one of the most redundant and hated workplace tasks raises questions about why, in the age of artificial intelligence, data mining, and smart technologies, this task is still being done manually. Is there any way it could be less despised? My ongoing fieldwork in a data-driven startup, referred to Read More
Source: analyticsindiamag.com Aspirants and professional data science today swear by the popular and trending buzzwords. They use their energy in taking up numerous projects and eventually get exhausted. Rather than padding their resumes, aspiring data scientists should work on specific projects that have not been done yet. However, since most of the MOOCs have projects Read More
Source: mybusiness.com.au Company chief executive Andrew Penn announced on Tuesday that having recognised the importance of cash flow to business, Telstra will pay invoices from 85 per cent of its suppliers within 20 days before the end of this year. “This will mean small and medium businesses across the country will have cash in their Read More
Source: pharmacytechnologyreport.com To better study the outcomes and costs of caring for cancer patients and emphasize value, oncologists at Hackensack Meridian Health’s John Theurer Cancer Center, in New Jersey, teamed with data scientists and engineers eight years ago to create their own analytics program to mine patients’ electronic health records for real-world data. Since then, Read More
Source: dqindia.com A recent study showing that data entry is one the most redundant and hated workplace tasks raises questions about why, in the age of artificial intelligence, data mining and smart technologies, this task is still being done manually. Is there any way it could be less despised? My ongoing fieldwork in a data-driven startup, referred to as Read More
Source: businessamlive.com There is a new saying: “data is the new oil”. It serves as a lubricant in many industries. To have more data is life for companies. As such, companies mine data in order to generate new information. David Hand, the British statistician, summarises data mining as “discovery of interesting, unexpected or valuable structures Read More
Source: enterprisetalk.com Researchers will now be able to uncover new connections and make new discoveries using ProQuest’s TDM Studio service, a pioneering end-to-end solution for text and data mining. TDM Studio puts the power of text and data mining directly into the researcher’s hands, from their initial idea to their final output. With this new solution, creating Read More