Text Radar Tracks Content Intelligence

September 8, 2012

TextRadar, a new online information service tracking content intelligence, ran a story which highlighted a benefit of predictive analytics. Inappropriately implemented, predictive methods can generate misleading or incorrect outputs. “Predictive Analytics Saves American Lives in Afghanistan War Zone” said:

Predictive analytics is at work even in Afghanistan helping to detect where and how combat will happen. Utilizing large amounts of data through emails published by Wikileaks, a secure and anonymous source that provides information via an electronic drop box, researchers have developed a model that can proactively alert troops to location and intensity of upcoming combat.

In October 2012 ISS Conference, Stephen E Arnold will be exploring some of the characteristics of next generation analytics systems. Among the systems he will snapshot are Digital Reasoning and Smartlogic. Systems which operate in automatic mode may be susceptible to shaped content which skews outputs for certain queries.

For more information about Mr. Arnold’s research into this important topic, contact seaky2000 at yahoo dot com.

Donald Anderson, September 8, 2012

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.