This Week in Graph and Entity Analytics

Yahoo, Cambridge Semantics, and Ravel Law are among the companies making news this week in the burgeoning field of graph and entity analytics. Wouldn't it be nice to automatically extract meaningful information from t Read more…

IBM Watson Targets ‘Self-Serve’ Analytics

In another attempt to extend its cognitive computing model beyond IT administrators to business users, IBM said it is expanding it Watson Analytics platform to include data discovery models along with natural language pr Read more…

Watson’s Take on the State of the Union

Every year, as the State of the Union address comes to a close, analysts, political correspondents and politicians alike come forward to offer unique take on the president’s speech. This year, however, one new voice is Read more…

Content Analytics Gets a Natural Language Boost

Natural language processing technology continues to be integrated with "data exploration" and content analytics as vendors seek to offer better tools designed to help enterprises tap into more data and leverage analytics Read more…

Fighting Sepsis with Real-Time Analytics

With many diseases, doctors have the benefit of a blood test that, more or less, definitively proves the presence of the disease. But for other conditions, such as sepsis--a bacterial infection state that kills millions of people each year--there is no single clear-cut test. But thanks to new big data techniques that can continuously monitor and analyze the interplay of more than 100 signs and potential symptoms of sepsis, hospitals are detecting the condition earlier, and saving both lives and money. Read more…