By Kevin Dodds Recently, I had the honor of delivering a guest lecture at The Information School at The University of Texas in Austin, which is proudly my alma mater. The class was Human Computation & Crowdsourcing, taught by Dr. ... Read more
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by Selene Arrazolo Last week Information Evolution paid a visit to the University of Texas at Austin School of Information (UT iSchool). As an alumna of the UT iSchool, I was excited and proud to be back on campus with ... Read more
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by Shyamali Ghosh Most open data — data that’s free to use, reuse, and redistribute — is public information that governments publish as a key part of “transparency” initiatives. It can be a boon to information services already skilled in ... Read more
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Heat maps—data represented graphically with individual values represented by colors—are an increasingly popular way to quickly convey a lot of information. To demonstrate this, we at IEI recently used a set of data on private investments made in the U.S. ... Read more
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Information services are just that: services. Even if you call your customers subscribers and deliver your product to them by mail, in the end you’re performing a service on a regular basis in exchange for regular payments. You’ve crossed the ... Read more
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The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) INFO Local: Austin chapter is excited to join Boston, London, San Francisco, and others in offering informative networking events to their thriving technology, media, publishing, and information service communities. Information Evolution’s own Matt ... Read more
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by Shyamali Ghosh Here are a few of my favorite moments from the DataContent 2013 conference, which was, as always, a unique opportunity to learn more about what’s going on in our industry. Marketing Subscription Data Services bootcamp—Russell Perkins and ... Read more
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One of the corollaries to the big data meme is that the world is woefully short of data science professionals. This observation requires some context, however, because the definition of what a data scientist _is_ is a matter of some ... Read more
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Back in 1986 I was fortunate to be exposed to a network of publishing professionals eager to share their knowledge with their fellow colleagues via what was then called The Newsletter Association. A few decades later this same group (now ... Read more
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Data publishers love structure. Very granular fielded data allows their customers to locate very specific things — for example, all investment banks in Boston that invested in green energy start-ups — instantly. Fielded data allows quick apples-to-apples comparisons, lets you ... Read more
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