Today, medical practitioners are analyzing big data using algorithms to improve patient care. Data mining helps identify treatments that are effective for particular conditions, identify patterns related to drug side effects, and a lot of other useful information that...
High-tech Document Management Systems for Museum Archiving
According to a recent CBC News report, the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa is part of an international movement to digitalize archived collections of plants and animals. In the pilot program, over 1 million specimens (of the total of 3 million) were entered into...
Importance of Data Mining in Fleet Management
Data mining is becoming increasingly important in managing truck fleets. Predictive modeling techniques and data analysis often helps fleet managers manage their data better. For instance, proper data analysis and predictive modeling techniques can be used to...
Data Mining Techniques Used to Study Impact of Immigration on the US Economy
Mining data relating to patents helped researchers determine that immigrants were not stealing the thunder from ethnic Americans. For decades, immigrants have played a vital role in the U.S. labor force and economy at large. Most arrive on H1-B visas that US firms use...
Back Office Outsourcing is Advantageous
As a businessman, have you ever felt the need to spend more time on strategy? Research has found that managing routine day-to-day activities can take up as much as half of a business executive's time - valuable time that would have been better spent on planning and...
How to Prevent Common Data Entry Mistakes
Data entry mistakes can have serious consequences. A report in Bucks County Courier Times told of how a criminal suspect was mistakenly released in Maryland a few months ago due to data entry issues. The spokesperson made it clear that the Department of Public Safety...
Data Mining – Crunching Customer Data for Higher ROI as reported by CNN
Data mining or data discovery is a concept that businesses use to acquire and analyze specific information about their market – the relationship between behaviors and variables - and use it to their best advantage. Mining is successfully applied in sectors such as...
State of Alaska Digitizing State Paper Documents for Easier Access for the Public
Alaska state archivist Dean Dawson is managing a four year project aimed at the digitization of the state’s vital records. The state has partnered with Family Search (historically known as the Genealogical Society of Utah), a non-profit organization backed monetarily...
Newer Digital Pen Technology Improve Handwriting to Text Conversions
A pen and piece of paper are what most people reach for to scribble calculations or take notes at a meeting, lecture, seminar or conference. But paper notes have their limitations – you could misplace or lose them or even leave them behind. Smart entrepreneurs have...
Paperless HR Departments Need to Focus on Security and Accessibility
Electronic document management systems can streamline workflow in any business office. A properly indexed database would allow easy retrieval and tracking of files. Let’s look at human resource (HR) departments. Though a paperless Human Resource (HR) department is an...