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The most Fascinating Startups at Web Summit: To use or abuse the data, that is the question
“The Olympics of Tech,” Web Summit, took place 1-4 November in Lisbon, Portugal. Despite Europe being in the middle of a pandemic, the world’s premier tech conference gathered 42,751 attendees. At a time of great uncertainty for many industries and, indeed, the world itself, “the grand conclave of the tech

Unstructured Data Will Be Key to Analytics in 2022
For decades, managing data essentially meant collecting, storing, and occasionally accessing it. That has all changed in recent years, as businesses look for the critical information they can pull from the massive amounts of data generated, accessed, and stored in myriad locations, from corporate data centers to the cloud and

5 Big Data Disruptions Coming in 2022
Big data has already transformed how many industries operate. Now that the pandemic has accelerated digital transformation around the globe, the field has grown faster than most could have predicted. This unprecedented growth will undoubtedly bring considerable disruption in 2022. Big data will disrupt industries further as new challenges and

How artificial intelligence can fight Long COVID
Clinicians pivoted their AI efforts to engage in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. How can it help those with persistent symptoms – the so-called “long COVID”? The emergence in March 2020 of the COVID-19 virus as a pandemic had a profound effect on the demand for health services that

AI will soon oversee its own data management
AI thrives on data. The more data it can access, and the more accurate and contextual that data is, the better the results will be. The problem is that the data volumes currently being generated by the global digital footprint are so vast that it would take literally millions, if not

In conversation: Facebook, data sovereignty, and why GDPR is flawed
In recent weeks, the topic of data privacy, data security, data sovereignty, and how social media platforms harvest and use our information has reared its head again. The most recent Facebook whistleblower, who divulged how the platform knows it is responsible for helping to create divisions through its algorithm, which

Google releases TF-GNN for creating graph neural networks in TensorFlow
Google today released TensorFlow Graph Neural Networks (TF-GNN) in alpha, a library designed to make it easier to work with graph-structured data using TensorFlow, its machine learning framework. Used in production at Google for spam and anomaly detection, traffic estimation, and YouTube content labeling, Google says that TF-GNN is designed to “encourage

How Social Media Data Drives Market Trend Analysis
Market trend analysis is an indispensable tool for companies these days. Social media gives analysts access to data that might otherwise be tough to collect. Rapidly changing business conditions require deep insight, and a market trend analysis report is a critical tool. Aside from future-proofing businesses, trend analysis reports also

Dirty Data is Sabotaging Your EMR Efforts
While Electronic Medical Records (EMR) have been touted for decades as the golden ticket to exceptional patient care, research, and collaboration, the systems that support EMR have fallen short in delivering on that promise. The problem lies not so much in the systems themselves but in the quality of data

What Is Data Accuracy? (And How to Improve It)
The world has come to rely on data. Data-driven analytics fuel marketing strategies, supply chain operations, and more, and often to impressive results. However, without careful attention to data accuracy, these analytics can steer businesses in the wrong direction. Just as data analytics can be detrimental if not executed properly,