Source: shine.cn Chinese biomedical data is mostly stored in centers hosted by foreign countries and therefore could be at risk from hacking, a deputy to the National People’s Congress from Shanghai has warned. Li Lin, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and a researcher at the CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Read More
Tag: data mining
Source: newstatesman.com In May 2003, the venture capitalist Peter Thiel and four co-founders launched the data-mining company Palantir. Named after an all-seeing crystal ball in JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, and initially partially funded by the CIA, the company has secured a series of contentious but lucrative public sector contracts in the US, Read More
Source: nationalheraldindia.com The reforms in the Indian space sector announced by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will bring space technology from research and development labs to the commercial arena, said a senior space industry official on Monday. According to him, the reforms proposed are only the beginning and technology should come out of labs to Read More
Source: guardian.co.tt As T&T moves to recover from COVID-19 it is imperative a parallel economy is created using IT as its backbone to foster different types of initiatives, including the creation of new jobs. CEO of the T&T Coalition of Services Industries (TTCSI) Vashti Guyadeen also advised that data intelligence is the cornerstone of this Read More
Source: In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, consumers and businesses are relying more on online services than ever before. The UAE has lifted its ban on certain VoIP apps to enable students to attend online classes and help residents work remotely from their homes. Be it official, academic or for entertainment, an unprecedented number Read More
Source: thefastmode.com One hundred years ago, a flu pandemic swept across the world, claiming more than 50 million lives between 1918 and 1920. Now we again face the reality of a viral pandemic, and we find ourselves struggling to track the rapid transmission and replication in hopes of getting ahead of the curve. Are we Read More
Source: techxplore.com Over the past few years, articles and blog posts have started to ask some version of the same question: “Why are all websites starting to look the same?” These posts usually point out some common design elements, from large images with superimposed text, to hamburger menus, which are those three horizontal lines that, when clicked, reveal a list of Read More
Sojurce: governmentciomedia.com The National Library of Medicine is leveraging its database resources and artificial intelligence capabilities to rapidly provide COVID-19 literature and resources to researchers and scientists as the world races to understand and respond to the pandemic. The White House in March tapped NLM, under the National Institutes of Health, to join a public-private Read More
Source: techwireasia.com Google, like most of the other technology heavyweights, has been contributing towards efforts to manage the impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus on individuals, governments, and organizations. Besides making some of its technology freely available and collaborating with the likes of Apple and Amazon to help the US government track the spread of the virus, Google Cloud AI– Read More
Source: bbntimes.com Industries across the globe are using applications of data mining to gain insights from a huge volume of data and improve the efficiency and accuracy of their businesses. Data mining is an interdisciplinary field of computer science and statistics that can find patterns in large data sets. Its overall goal is to extract Read More
Source: ptc.com Predictive analytics and data mining are often used interchangeably, but they address very different parts of the same process We’ll explain how each technique works, why you need them, and how they work together. Predictive Analytics Explained Predictive analytics prepare you for what’s on the horizon. While total accuracy is impossible, the best Read More
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com An Artificial Intelligence (AI) firm with connections to the 2016 Vote Leave campaign has been awarded seven government contracts in the last 18 months. According to the Guardian, Faculty, which traded under the name Advanced Skills Initiative during the 2016 referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union, has won seven contracts totaling around £280,000 Read More
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
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: advanced-television.com Qligent has announced Foresight, its second-generation, cloud-based service that uses AI, Machine Learning, and Big Data to mitigate content distribution issues. Designed to help broadcasters, MVPDs, and OTT service providers understand and correlate factors that contribute to higher audience engagement, Foresight provides real-time 24/7 data analytics based on system performance and user behaviour. 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: 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: analyticsinsight.net The internet has evolved over the past few decades. Big data was a major concern for many organizations in 2019. An IDG survey found that each company manages 163,000 gigabytes of information. More than 5- percent of businesses use big data analytics. Its practitioners gain knowledge in conferences and different industry events. The 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: 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