Frontiers

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

By Suzanna Burgelman, Frontiers science writer. Image: Citizen scientist image from www.bigcompostexperiment.org.uk. In a UK-wide study, researchers found that 60% of home-compostable plastics do not fully disintegrate in home compost bins, and inevitably end up in our soil. The study also found that citizens are confused about the labels of compostable and biodegradable plastics, leading to incorrect plastic waste disposal.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Big data technology has changed the future of marketing in a multitude of ways. A growing number of organizations are leveraging big data to get higher ROIs from their organic and paid marketing campaigns. As a result, companies around the world spent over $52 billion on data-driven marketing solutions in 2021. The Fintech sector is among those most reliant on data-driven marketing.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

BY KIM BELLARD. It’s a lot more fun to write about exciting new technologies, or companies in other industries that healthcare could learn from, than to pick on healthcare for its many, well-known shortcomings, but there was an article in JAMA Forum last week that I had to note and perhaps expand on: A New Category of “Never Events” – Ending Harmful Hospital Policies , by Dave A.

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The New Social Worker

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

COVID-19 caused a steep decline in all adoptions. However, prior to the pandemic, important demographic changes were already occurring across public and private adoptions. These changes have important implications for social workers.

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Health IT Buzz

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

ONC launched the Strengthening the Technical Advancement and Readiness of Public Health Agencies via Health Information Exchange (STAR HIE) Program in 2020 using funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). The program was expanded in 2021 to increase support for efforts to improve vaccination data sharing between jurisdictional Immunization Information Systems (IIS) and HIEs.

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University of Minnesota CIDRAP

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Remdesivir, steroids tied to better COVID hospital outcomes Jim Wappes Tue, 11/22/2022 - 16:31 Body The antiviral drug remdesivir and corticosteroids were linked to better outcomes in COVID-19 patients admitted directly to a hospital ward in the Netherlands, suggests a real-world study published today in Open Forum Infectious Diseases. The nationwide study, led by University of Amsterdam researchers, involved 5,643 COVID-19 patients admitted to 11 hospitals during four pandemic waves, from Feb 2

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Proper marketing and sales prospects play a huge role in improving the success rate of your business. The strategy can either be offline or digital. However, digital marketing has become the major focus of marketers across all industries, mainly due to how customers interact and engage with modern businesses. Seeing an opportunity and knowing how and when to take advantage of it defines the majority of where today’s marketers stand.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

BY KIM BELLARD. Gosh, so much going on. Elizabeth Holmes was finally sentenced. FTX collapsed. Big Tech is laying off workers at unprecedented rates, except TikTok, which should, indeed, be cautionary. Elon Musk’s master plan for Twitter remains opaque to most of us. Americans remain contentedly unworried about the looming COVID wave. With all that to choose from, I want to talk about space debris.

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The New Social Worker

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

On this World Kindness Day, acknowledge that disenfranchised grief exists in the social work profession. Self-kindness can effectively combat professional challenges and prevent burnout for social workers.

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Lara Hogan's Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

My most-used tool these days is definitely this list of 20 great open questions. There are so many things it’s useful for. If you haven’t leveraged the list yet, here are some easy ways to start using these questions! Deliver effective feedback Transform a feedback conversation from a one-way feedback dump into a collaborative problem-solving session with one of these coaching questions.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Data analytics is unquestionably one of the most disruptive technologies impacting the manufacturing sector. Manufacturers are projected to spend nearly $10 billion on analytics by the end of the year. Data analytics can solve many of the biggest challenges that manufacturers face. One of the most significant benefits of leveraging analytics in manufacturing is with marketing optimization and automation.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Artificial intelligence is playing an important role in modern creative professions. There are a lot of reasons a growing number of companies are turning to AI technology. One poll showed that 61% of companies found that AI and machine learning were their best data investments. One of the industries that is evolving by adopting new AI tools in web design.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Artificial intelligence has upended the digital marketing profession. A growing number of marketers are using AI to optimize and automate marketing campaigns in fantastic ways. Jason Hall, Founder and CEO of FiveChannels described some of the phenomenal benefits of leveraging AI in digital marketing in a post in Forbes. Hall states that AI hasn’t removed the need for human input in marketing, but it has helped remove a lot of the monotonous tasks that humans used to participate in.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

AI technology has been invaluable to the financial industry. The amount of money that fintech companies are spending on AI is projected to grow by 16.5% a year from 2022 and 2030. AI is changing the alternative financial sector as well. For example, many bitcoin investors are finding creative ways to use AI to improve their trading strategies. In fact, AI has played a key role in the growth of bitcoin popularity.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The Internet of Things (IoT) has changed our lives in extraordinary ways. A number of new IoT devices have made it easier to manage smart homes and have improved or lives. According to Dell Technologies, there will be over 41.6 billion IoT devices online by 2025 , as more people discover their benefits. More homeowners and businesses are looking for IoT devices to invest in.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Machine learning technology has transformed countless fields in recent years. One of the professions affected the most by advances in machine learning is mobile app development. The market for mobile artificial intelligence is projected to be worth nearly $9.7 billion within the next five years , since machine learning helps developers create powerful new apps.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

AI technology has radically changed the future of many industries and is changing the way companies do business forever. Most of the discussions on the benefits of AI focus on helping traditional businesses boost their bottom line. In our capitalist economy, this is not surprising. However, AI also offers many benefits for nonprofits. Dr. Lobna Karoui of the Forbes Nonprofit Council wrote an article on the many excellent benefits of AI.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Big data technology is becoming a more pressing issue for companies around the world. However, many companies don’t understand enough about data to utilize it effectively. A recent survey found that a stunning 47% of companies have only a limited data strategy. One of the biggest reasons that companies don’t have better data strategies is that employees aren’t educated about the merits of big data.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

All employees suffer when the tech and their teams aren’t working at their best capacity. The entire office suffers even more when skilled people leave the company. The lack of the right resources, technology, and, most importantly, communication channels could bring unwarranted stress to the organization. The biggest challenge of today is retaining employees.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Inflation and an impending recession are two huge challenges facing the restaurant industry today. But could artificial intelligence be the solution to both of these problems? Let’s take a look at how AI could help restaurants survive and even thrive in spite of these challenges. Many factors are contributing to inflation, including the rising cost of labor and the cost of food.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The demand for AI and data science professionals is growing all over the world. Many data scientists are pursuing careers in Europe and Asian, which means that they have to be aware of the opportunities and requirements abroad. Italy is one of the most promising countries for people seeking careers in data science. Italian employers spent $78.3 billion on big data last year.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

AI technology is clearly changing our world for the better. One survey found that 86% of CEOs believe AI is essential to their offices. Around two-thirds of consumers believe that AI will improve safety with cars. The global market for AI is over $328 billion and that figure is growing 20% a year. However, it can only keep growing if companies invest in it and hire the best programmers.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally altered the marketing landscape , and in many ways for the better. While live streaming and video marketing have long been a part of a marketers toolkit, the prolonged lockdowns, social distancing, and travel bans over the course of the pandemic helped thrust it into the limelight, resulting in widespread adoption and since making it indispensable for business. .

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Data has unquestionably had a huge impact on our lives. It is becoming more prolific as well, as 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are generated every day. Data is everything in today’s tech-driven world. Every company collects data , analyzes it, and makes its marketing and sales strategies based on the data’s results to attract more customers and increase sales and profits.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Last September, various news outlets picked up the story of an AI-generated painting taking first place at the Colorado State Fair’s art contest. To create the winning piece, the contestant entered some text into Midjourney, an online app that creates images based on text input. The result is a piece called ‘Théâtre D’opéra Spatial,’ one of the first AI-generated images to win an art contest.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Cloud technology is becoming more essential for modern organizations with each passing day. A report by Gartner shows that cloud technology has transformed modern business in previously unimaginable ways. The report indicated that 75% of organizations using the cloud have a “cloud first” policy, which is a much higher figure than previous versions of the report indicated.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Data analytics technology has had a profound effect on the nature of customer engagement. Analytics is especially important for companies trying to optimize their online presence. Website optimization is absolutely vital for any brand striving to do business online. According to Northern Arizona University, 88% of customers will leave a website due to a poor user experience.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Cloud technology has driven a number of changes in the financial sector. Alternative financial systems such as cryptocurrency trading have also changed as a result of cloud technology. We have talked about the benefits of using the cloud to trade bitcoins in developing economies like Algeria. However, it can be even more useful for trading newer currencies.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Cloud technology is transforming the future of business. A growing number of companies are finding new ways to leverage the cloud to improve their operations. Gartner conducted a survey of nearly 270 tech company leaders, which showed that cloud technology was the biggest investment for innovation in 2021. The number of companies migrating to the cloud will continue to grow.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Big data and AI technology has led to some major breakthroughs in online video technology. Irwin Lazar, president and principle analyst at Metrigy Research, writes that AI has opened a ton of new doors for video streaming technology. AI technology can help improve the user experience and capture information during meetings more easily. “AI initiatives are coming from endpoint vendors, meeting software vendors and startups offering unique capabilities on their own or in partnership with mee

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Video editing has changed significantly over the years. During the first half of the 20th Century, people had to splice film manually, which could create all kinds of problems. Machine learning technology is one of the new technologies that has drastically changed the state of video editing. This technology uses deep neural networks to automate the process.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

We have talked extensively about the benefits of data centers in the past. We mentioned that they are valuable for ecommerce businesses and many other sectors. However, many companies still don’t know how to choose them. Many organizations are increasing their Big Data footprint and looking to data centers to help them grow. Global companies are projected to spend over $274 billion on big data this year and data cetners have played a role in this trend.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It’s hard to overestimate the value that data insights have come to represent to today’s businesses. Investments in analytics tech have risen commensurately, with some 73 percent of respondents telling IDC that they expect to spend more on data-focused software than any other category in 2023. While emphasizing data analytics has become the standard for the business community as a whole, smaller teams are often the exception.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

AI technology is driving some tremendous changes in digital technology. Many of the developments brought on by AI have been beneficial. However, some of the changes created by AI have been harmful. One of the biggest examples of problems caused by AI is the growing threat of cybersecurity threats. A growing number of hackers are finding innovative ways to weaponize AI technology to commit cybercrime.

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