by Matt Manning The term “crowdsourcing” is not aging well. Maybe it was a bit too folksy to begin with or, more probably, its slow evolution caused it to seem passé before it ever even hit its stride. Whatever the ... Read more
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by Matt Manning In 2015 we saw strong incremental progress on several technical fronts that should make 2016 an interesting year for those of us in the data trenches. The volume of data is ballooning across the board. Unstructured data ... Read more
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posted by Shyamali Ghosh on December 31, 2015
by Matt Manning We started IEI in 2007 with a simple premise: To help the folks running online information services make sure their data were never out of date so their clients always had a great user experience. After almost ... Read more
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posted by Shyamali Ghosh on July 24, 2015
by Matt Manning It’s been 20 years since Internet search was “born,” and searching the Web is still pretty much the same as it was in 1995. Dubious sources of information are not weighted to be “worse” than accurate sources. ... Read more
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posted by Shyamali Ghosh on July 6, 2015
by Matt Manning For all the talk about the value of accurate data, few of us are making the effort to calculate the true and total cost of keeping data up-to-date and making it ever richer. Real-time updates, data overlays, ... Read more
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posted by Shyamali Ghosh on May 26, 2015
by Matt Manning What happens when you have more metadata for a database record than there are fields of data in the original record itself? If you’re like almost every other company in the world you don’t have to imagine ... Read more
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posted by Shyamali Ghosh on May 14, 2015
by Kevin Dodds We manage a lot of data at IEI and, more often than not, I find that the key to cleaning up and improving the data we get lies in where the data came from in the first ... Read more
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posted by Shyamali Ghosh on June 30, 2014
IEI runs monitoring campaigns against data feeds to identify personnel updates, product launches, and other events that are “triggers” for updates to one of our customer’s databases using Enlyton, a new enterprise search tool that uses mathematical indexing to match ... Read more
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posted by Shyamali Ghosh on May 14, 2014
Those of us in the information business are usually too busy working with our customers and refining our business models and production processes to think about the basic question of “What is information?” but let’s stop for a moment to ... Read more
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posted by Shyamali Ghosh on April 18, 2013
The idea that you, as an individual person or as a company, should be able to control information about yourself on the Internet has been around since the commercialization of the Web, but it does seem to be gaining more ... Read more
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posted by Shyamali Ghosh on October 8, 2012