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Open Data: The Opportunity Project’s Goal to Improve Urban Communitites

By Dick Weisinger

Last month the Obama administration announced what they called The Opportunity Project, a plan to grow the collaboration between the public and private sectors.  The website for the project self-describes itself as being “about all of us working together to increase opportunity…

Enterprise Search: Incorporating Machine Learning and Predictive Algorithms to Gain Relevance

By Dick Weisinger

Search for documents and data within the enterprise has been tough.  A survey by SearchYourCloud found that people would spend between five and 25 minutes everytime they needed to look for a document. Much of the problem has been that…

Content Management: Marketers Swamped with Management of Ever Growing Content

By Dick Weisinger

The amount of digital content is growing in all industries, and it’s no exception for marketing.  A recent report by Accenture Interactive found that 92 percent of marketing groups say that the amount of content that they manage has increased…

Big Data: Don’t Bother Rolling Out Big Data Tools Unless Your Application Really Warrants It

By Dick Weisinger

When to use Hadoop?  It really depends on your application.  And, as we will see, in some cases it doesn’t take big data sets for it to make sense to use Big Data. Many, and probably most, applications don’t really…

SuperComputing: Is Quantum Computing on the Horizon?

By Dick Weisinger

Bill Gates recently told Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) that he is excited about the prospects of quantum cloud computing. He said that “Microsoft and others are working on quantum computing. It isn’t clear when it will work or become mainstream. There…