The Other Intelligence

Is Data Mining Like Porn?

Do you define data mining like you define pornography? You know it when you see it?

Jeff Jonas explores all the definitions for data mining, and finds that the government has about as much accuracy in its definition.

"Smart Librarians"

Jeff Jonas reports on a new technology called Smart Librarians:

“Semantically Reconciled and Relationship Aware Directories” is a type of Card Catalog which provides an even higher degree of enterprise context by allowing users to locate additional Documents, for example, those related by intimate association (e.g., while Billy the Kid is also known William Antrim, it may also be important to understand there was a real William Antrim, who happened to be Billy the Kid’s step father).  The NORA (Non-Obvious Relationship Awareness) technology I invented in the early 90’s (now owned by IBM) is an example of this type of directory.  This technology leverages such context for the real-time discovery of highly actionable alerts … in an effort to help focus an organization’s finite investigatory resources (e.g., like the surveillance team charged with protecting a casino’s assets).

Smart Librarians are responsible for the creation and management of high-context Card Catalogs.  I would also like to point out that the Librarian will typically be the first (and the computationally least expensive) to notice when new observations (e.g., Documents) are of enough relevance to be published to a consumer (i.e., user).