Verse 12: Elon wants cocaine!?

Police in Switzerland were quite surprised to discover that a recent shipment to a Nespresso factory in Switzerland contained not just coffee—but also 500 kilos of cocaine. Coming just a short time after serial Twitter troll Elon Musk joked “Next I'm buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in”, it made us wonder if Nespresso is his next target?

 From your feedback we’ve made some updates to make Verse meet your needs, so please keep sharing, liking and commenting or send us a DM with your views to help us continue to grow the Verse community. Thanks again! 

~ Dave. 

INTERESTING READS

Meta has built a massive new language AI—and it’s giving it away for free. The company said it would open up access to its Open Pretrained Transformer (OPT-175B), the first time that such a language model has been made available to any researcher.

Hotpot.ai uses AI to colorize black-and-white photos. The outcome is a sophisticated prediction about the colors of the people and objects in a picture.

Synthetic data can help create less biased data sets—but it’s no silver bullet. A majority of AI training data could be synthetic in two years, Gartner predicts.

COMPANY NEWS

GNS Healthcare and Arvinas Enter into Neuroscience Drug Discovery Collaboration, to better understand the biology of the underlying disease, how it progresses, and how potential drugs might perform at the individual patient level.

Rivery.io raises $16M Series A to expand SaaS DataOps platform. Launched in 2019, the company has grown rapidly and added hundreds of customers like Bayer, American Cancer Society, and WalkMe.

Cyral has raised a total of $41.1M in funding over 4 rounds. Cyral delivers enterprise data security and governance across all data services such as S3, Snowflake, Kafka, and more.       

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MOVERS AND SHAKERS

🔼 CENTOGENE’s Chief Data Officer Bettina Goerner named as one of CDO Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40!

🔽 Apple’s Director of Machine Learning, Ian Goodfellow, has resigned in protest at the company forcing staff back to the office three days a week.

THE FUTURE OF DATA LICENSING

Share and Share Alike: A New Era for Data 

We came across this excellent article yesterday and thought I'd share. What struck us most was that the use for external data is skyrocketing because of the combination of massive data growth and the development of technology and platforms to more easily disseminate such data.

Case in point for ALL of us: during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, fiercely competitive global pharmaceutical firms explored ways to share preclinical research data via data-sharing platforms. COVID-19 vaccine administrators, meanwhile, used centralized state-operated platforms to share daily micro-level vaccination and testing data with public health care agencies.

DATA CURATORS

🤔 To make AI fair, here’s what we must learn to do. Developers of artificial intelligence must learn to collaborate with social scientists and the people affected by its applications.

📈 Copyright Clearance Center Brings Ringgold In-House to Grow its Data Pipeline. The scholarly communications market is growing more connected, with machines now participating in the exchange of information.

📡 ConTech.Live announces the launch of the ConTech Scholarly API Series. The aim of the series is to discuss explore and learn about services that extract, combine, compare, and certify critical information.

... and finally, this Science Quiz 🧪 from quizly.co – 🤔How well can you do?

Verse 11: It’s Elon Musk’s World …. and we just live in it.

Hot on the heels of serial Twitter troll Elon Musk’s $44bn deal to buy Twitter, the wisecracking Tesla and SpaceX founder said 'Next I'm buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in'. It’s a far cry from 70’s entrepreneur Victor Kiam’s buyout of Remington. His catchphrase, "I liked it so much, I bought the company", also made him a household name. Unlike Kiam, Musk agreed to pay Twitter a $1bn 'breakup' fee if he pulls the plug on the take-over deal. The tech giant agrees the same, if they opt for a better offer. Could it be a ‘close shave’?

We’ve been getting some great feedback and made some updates to make Verse meet your needs, so please keep sharing, liking and commenting or send us a DM with your views to help us continue to grow the Verse community. Thanks again! 

~ Dave. 

INTERESTING READS

Tough questions, few answers: The FDA wrestles with its approach to AI in medicine. Senior staffer Amir Khan faced sharp questions this week from MIT scientists hungry for clear answers on the agency’s plans to regulate AI in health care — including why it regulates AI algorithms drawing on medical imaging, but largely steers clear of those that use other types of clinical data, like health records.

Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms. Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling.

The cost of AI colon cancer screening. As AI-enabled screening tests are deployed more widely, one fear is that their availability will lead to overscreening, overdiagnosis, and overtreatment. A simulation-based study of AI-based colorectal cancer screenings in The Lancet Digital Health put that concern to the test. It found that compared to screening without AI, the systems reduced both colorectal cancer mortality and costs.

COMPANY NEWS

Pentagon's AI efforts get a Lyft. The Defense Department has named a Silicon Valley veteran to fast-track the development of artificial intelligence capabilities. Craig Martell, who heads machine learning at San Francisco-based ride-hailing company Lyft Inc., was named as the military’s first chief digital and artificial intelligence office.

Versium Releases Open Source Development Tools to Optimize Marketing Campaigns. Versium’s open-source tools help developers and data scientists understand and manipulate files to clean up dirty data and optimize marketing campaigns.

VIANAI Systems Introduces First Human-Centered AI Platform for the Enterprise. The Vian H+AI Platform brings a human-centric approach, combined with advanced AI techniques to address and remove barriers that currently prevent widespread AI adoption into production environments.

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MOVERS AND SHAKERS

CLARA Analytics hires Ram Rangaraj as new CTO

CUJO AI Announces Remko Vos as New CEO

LogDNA Appoints Rob Fry as CTO

THE FUTURE OF DATA LICENSING

There are about 5 billion* video views on YouTube daily. Every minute, over 100 hours* of video are uploaded. We have just added to that with a series of 8 ‘bite size’ video shorts taken from Outsell’s Futurescapes series. Hop on over to our channel to see David Myers and David Worlock discuss the challenges and opportunities around STEM data licensing for AI and ML purposes.

*https://www.thefactsite.com/youtube-facts/

DATA CURATORS

Time to recognize authorship of open data. The open data revolution won’t happen unless the research system values the sharing of data as much as authorship on papers.

Biocompare, a Division of CompareNetworks, Acquires SEQanswers. SEQanswers is a natural addition to Biocompare’s portfolio of products servicing NGS users. It has recently launched a content hub called Future Lab: Trends in Next Gen Sequencing.

ACS Publications commits its entire hybrid journal portfolio to become transformative journals. This development represents a major step in ACS’ long-standing commitment to open science. 

... and finally, this Element Symbols Quiz from quizly.co – How well can you do?

Verse 10: Post-LBF 2022

While the celebrity gossip columns are full of the Peltz - Beckham nuptials, we were also busy at London Book Fair 2022 nurturing partnerships of our own with data creators. It was great to see everyone (in person) and we’ll have more news as soon as the ink is dry! If you missed us at LBF 2022, don’t worry, our door is always open, email me (dave@dladata.com) to see how partnering with DLA can effectively license your STEM data for AI.

From our stats (don’t you just love heat maps?) we can see you find Verse to be informative and relevant. So, please keep sharing it with your friends & colleagues in the ‘data Verse’. We’re really excited to see our community growing!

~ Dave.

INTERESTING READS

GE Healthcare Developing a Digital Health Platform to Help Providers Accelerate Digital Transformation. The company announced its intention to bring to market a digital health platform to be called Edison Digital Health Platform.

Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory Partners with Microsoft to Explore AI-driven Legal Workflows. An initial prototype was developed in Germany by an international co-creation team from both companies.

Comet Reveals Machine Learning Survey Results. Hundreds of enterprise ML team leaders were asked about their experiences and the factors that affected their teams’ ability to deliver the level of business value their organizations expected from ML initiatives.

COMPANY NEWS

Aidoc Delivers the Most Comprehensive Neuroscience Package for AI-driven Coordination with New FDA 510(k) Clearance for Brain Aneurysm. The solution delivers a care coordination workflow that is tailored to radiologists, neuroendovascular surgeons and neurologists, who need to treat multiple and different types of patients.

DrugBank: A Future of Medicine Startup Boasting 12M+ Users Secures Successful Raise to Solve the World's Exponentially-Growing Biomedical Data Problem. DrugBank began as a research project to provide high-quality, structured datasets to academic researchers. Commercial interest surged and, recognizing the potential of AI and machine learning in data-driven medicine.

Three-Way Merger Combines Focus on Physician and Patient Engagement with Industry-Leading Technology Platform to Create the Nation's Premier, Value Based Kidney Care Provider. The new company is valued at $2.4 billion and will operate under InterWell Health brand, with over $6 billion of medical costs under management, responsibility for over 100,000 covered lives, and a total addressable market of $170 billion.

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MOVERS AND SHAKERS

Industry Disruptor and Market Creator Bobby Napiltonia Joins Okera as President.

Scott Hallworth Joins HP as Chief Data & Analytics Officer.

Abu Dhabi Digital Authority (ADDA) Appoints Althea Davis as Chief Data Officer.

Ashwin Rao Joins Wayfair as Chief Science Officer.

THE FUTURE OF DATA LICENSING

In pursuit of data immortality. Data from smaller studies can often remain siloed in the laboratories that generated them, fading from memory as project members leave. For the scientific community, that’s a tragedy of wasted effort, lost collaborative opportunities and irreproducibility. The good news is that more sophisticated data-management solutions are emerging. The FAIR Principles, which aim to ensure that scientific data should be ‘findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable’, have been adopted to inspire fundamental changes to how data are managed and shared.

DATA CURATORS

Time to recognize authorship of open data. The open data revolution won’t happen unless the research system values the sharing of data as much as authorship on papers.

Springer Nature and Figshare have launched a free pilot to better support authors in making their data openly available. Authors will now be able to easily opt into data sharing, via Figshare, as part of one integrated submission process.

World’s Largest Computing Society Makes Thousands of Research Articles Freely Available; Opens First 50 Years Backfile. ACM takes major step in Its transition to become a fully open access publisher.

... and finally, this Science “True or False” Quiz from quizly.co – How well can you do?

Verse 3: The first Verse of 2022.

Welcome to our first Verse of 2022! Complete with some of the latest or relevant happenings in the world of STEM data, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

As we fine-tune Verse, we’d love to hear from you. Please share your comments with us about how we can make sure we find the right voice for the community. Thanks again and Happy New Year to all! ~ Dave.

Interesting Reads

Future of Analytics: Business Leaders’ Top Analytics Priorities in 2022 and Beyond.

Robots to restore Pompeii frescoes. Scientists from the Italian Institute of Technology are developing an AI-powered robot designed to restore frescoes damaged in Pompeii nearly 2,000 years ago when Mt. Vesuvius erupted.

What if Sci-Hub wins its court battle? Sci-Hub is defending its operations in court for the first time — and the outcome could disrupt academic publishers’ business models.

Mind-controlled robots now one step closer.

Kyligence Identifies Big Data, Cloud, AI and Data Analytics Predictions for 2022.

Company News

Redica Systems Announces US$30 Million Series B Led by Savant Growth to Bring New Analytics and Compliance Platform to FDA-Regulated Life Sciences Companies.

Big Tech is headed for its biggest year yet, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook are headed toward annual sales of $1.4 trillion.

Leading Edge AI Chipmaker Hailo Partners with NXP to Launch High-Performance, Scalable, AI Solutions for the Automotive Industry.

EVERSANA Announces Real-World Data Agreement with Janssen to Augment Development of Chronic Disease Care Therapies.

WellnessLiving Launches Artificial Intelligence (AI) Client Churn Risk Predictor with 87% Accuracy Rate.

Movers and Shakers

GreyOrange Selects Deborah Surrette as Chief Commercial Officer.

Tristan Spaulding Appointed as The New Head of Product at Acceldata.

Vectra Appoints Ex-Admiral CISO Steve Cottrell as EMEA CTO.

Working from Home

Where We Work, a guide to designing the perfect home office

An inspirational book showcasing the most inventive, practical, beautiful and inspiring home offices around the world, Where We Work (Lannoo Publishers) features designs from around the globe on how to turn home offices into more than just a place to work. Discover desk ideas for tiny spaces and even suggestions for designing ‘healthy’ office spaces for those of you that squeeze in core workouts between Zoom meetings.

... and finally, this Random Knowledge Quiz from quizly.co – How well can you do?

Verse 7: The Future of Data Licensing issue.

As we put this edition of Verse together our inboxes and push notifications are full of breaking and updating news around the major political instability that is unfolding, and we thank journalists and news agencies for their reports. We are going to mute this news for a moment to focus on data.

This issue comes complete with some of the latest happenings in the world of STEM data, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Don’t forget, as always we’d love to hear from you, so send me a DM or post a comment to let us know how we can make Verse better. Thanks again!

~ Dave.

Interesting Reads

Bridging the chasm between AI and clinical implementation. AI companies have been quick to commercialize their tools for health care, but health systems have been slower to embrace them — and that’s likely because they can’t always see the data it’s trained on or the source code.

Data scientists highlight roadblocks to transformation. Digital transformation has accelerated significantly in the last two years, but the extra demands on data scientists have revealed significant barriers to effective working and high levels of job dissatisfaction in some areas.

Scientists make high energy physics data more FAIR. In a new study, researchers have laid out a set of new practices to guide the curation of high energy physics datasets that makes them more FAIR.

‘AI Hub’ introduced - Next step in the UK’s AI Strategy. The new AI Standard Hub will create practical tools for businesses, bring the UK’s AI community together through a new online platform, and develop educational materials to help organizations develop and benefit from global standards.

AI Is Biased. Here's How Scientists Are Trying to Fix It. Researchers are revising the ImageNet data set. But algorithmic anti-bias training is harder than it seems.

Company News

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, Enters into Option Agreement with Quris on its BioAI Platform for Clinical Safety Prediction. Quris hopes it will lead to new ways to find novel drugs that safely meet patients’ needs in the years ahead

Arcion Labs raises $13M in Series A round of funding. Arcion is the only cloud-native, real-time data mobility platform, delivering high-performance, high-volume pipelines. Headquartered in San Mateo, California Arcion Labs was founded by Rajkumar Sen and Miryana Joksovic.

Darktrace Acquires Cybersprint. The acquisition of Cybersprint is aligned with Darktrace's vision of delivering a 'Continuous Cyber AI Loop' and complements its Self-Learning technology and inside-out view.

Salesken Raises US$22 Million Funding From Microsoft And Sequoia, To Expand In US Market. Sales conversation AI startup will use the funds to accelerate expansion in the North American market and further develop and scale its proprietary deep-tech product.

Movers and Shakers

'Data Warrior' Kent Graziano Joins DataOps Advisory Board.

Marpai Health, Appoints Lutz Finger as President, Product and Development

Cogitativo, Announced Kaushik Raha as SVP of Data Science and Data Management Operations

The Future of Data Licensing

Check out this video where David Myers and David Worlock had a chance to discuss the challenges and opportunities around data licensing for Outsell’s Futurescapes series.

Data Curators

The Future of Data. FAIR and its implementation. A conversation between David Worlock (Outsell) and Professor Barend Mons (Leiden University and GO FAIR)

HESA and Jisc confirm merger exploration. The proposed merger will provide significant benefits to UK higher education, combining the expertise of both organizations to create a resilient, joint capability for delivering the sector’s data and digital needs.

Springer Nature continues to lead drive for OA transition across Europe. The publisher continues to demonstrate its commitment to driving forward sustainable open research for all, across all economies.

Expanded Access to Paywalled Content: A Hidden Benefit of Transformative Agreements. Are transformative agreements expanding access and readership for content that is paywalled?

... and finally, this ‘If You Are Good At Science’ Quiz from quizly.co – How well can you do?

Verse 8: Data and Decanting.

We love press and getting our message out, so hot on the heels of the Outsell’s Futurescapes series featured in the last issue of Verse, we bring you an interview on DLA from the recent issue of Research Information: Data and decanting. Check it out!

For those of you that still love to read the print we hear you can pick up a copy at this year’s London Book Fair (April 4-7). Speaking of LBF, if you are attending we hear Dave is attending too. So why not email him dave@dladata.com for a London meet and see how partnering with the Data Licensing Alliance can help (he may autograph the issue for you?).

We’ve been getting some great feedback and made some updates to make Verse meet your needs, so please keep sharing, liking and commenting or send us a DM with your views to help us grow the Verse community. Thanks again!

~ Marcus (on behalf of Dave).

Interesting Reads

The Ethical AI Startup Ecosystem. A deep dive into the startups devoted to detecting and mitigating bias within the data science lifecycle — and four predictions for the future.

Google aiming to unpick protein ‘dark matter’ with AI. Google has announced the development of a technique that uses AI and machine learning to reliably predict the function of proteins, helping us decrease the size of the ‘dark matter' in the protein universe.

Digital health's role in the next pandemic. For all of digital health’s gains during the pandemic, technology has largely failed to make a dent in the path of the coronavirus. A global digital health summit in 2020 resulted in the Riyadh Declaration on Digital Health — a list of nine guiding principles to deploy technology against current and future pandemics.

Digital health's role in the next pandemic. For all of digital health’s gains during the pandemic, technology has largely failed to make a dent in the path of the coronavirus.

Data Science Platform Market worth US$322.9 Billion by 2026. The Market has been segmented by two components: platform and services. The deployment of Data Science Platform has witnessed an increase in adoption, as serves a variety of purposes, such as ML modeling and predictive analytics.

How Artificial Intelligence Will Revolutionize Perimeter Intrusion Detection Market. Detection systems are witnessing increasing demand from various verticals such as electric utilities, logistics, and industrial & commercial facilities due to the pressing need to secure critical infrastructure along with other sites.

Company News

Zeta Surgical Raises US$5.2M in Seed Financing to Enhance Surgical Navigation with Robotics and Mixed Reality. They will use the funds to finalize the development of their neurosurgical navigation platform, Zeta, and their non-invasive focused ultrasound system, ZetaFUS, to complete their initial clinical studies, to obtain FDA clearance, and to expand their growing technical and clinical teams.

Implicity Hosts US Research Competition for Free Access to Advanced AI-powered Cardiac Remote Monitoring Platform. This is an opportunity for investigators to use highly-intelligent cardiac remote care & research solutions to support their studies for a minimum of one year, with support from Implicity's team of data scientists and engineers.

Darktrace Uplifts Security Teams with Updates to its Cyber AI Platform. There are three main categories of upgrades: A new UX/UI design enhancing and streamlining workflows, An explainable AI that communicates decisions and actions in plain English and AI capable of making micro-decisions allowing human experts to make macro-decisions.

Angara announces DecarbonX - utilizes AI to fight global fouling problem and CO2 emissions. Its new AI-driven, smart formula program solves a significant legacy problem with its innovative new technology.

Microsoft Completes Acquisition of Nuance, Ushering in New Era of Outcomes-Based AI. Driven by a shared vision to build outcomes-based AI, Microsoft and Nuance will enable organizations across industries to accelerate their business goals with our security-focused, cloud-based solutions infused with powerful, vertically optimized AI.

Movers and Shakers

Dataiku, Announces Edward Bush as Chief Operating Officer.

Envestnet, Names Farouk Ferchichi Leader of Data and Analytics Business.

TZP Group, Appoints Veteran Data Scientist Tamar Shapiro to Newly Created Role, Partner of Data & Analytics.

The Future of Data Licensing

In this recent interview for Research Information magazine: Data and decanting. David Myers tells us about his new AI/ML venture, the Data Licensing Alliance, Inc. and his adventures in wine-making.

Dave and colleagues will be at The London Book Fair this April. To find out more on the DLA email him dave@dladata.com to schedule a meeting.

Data Curators

Scientists make high energy physics data more FAIR. Our goal is to shed new light into the interplay of AI models and experimental data and help create a rigorous framework for the development of AI tools to address the biggest challenges in science ... the goal of FAIRness is to create an agreed-upon set of best practices and methodologies, which will maximise the impact of AI and pave the way for the development of next-generation AI tools.

ResearchGate dealt a blow in copyright lawsuit. Court ruling says that the academic-networking website is responsible for papers uploaded by its users — but ResearchGate plans to appeal the decision.

AI boost to benefit authors of open access articles. One of the world’s largest open-access journal publishers, Hindawi, is set to expand its use of AI-based technology Writefull.

... and finally, this ‘Name These Chemical Compounds’ Quiz from quizly.co – How well can you do?

Verse 9: FAIR Data issue.

Recent reports suggested that the Academy Awards were worried about a steep decline in ratings, and needed a stiff slap in the face to wake up …. then POW! I wonder if the Academy (or Chris Rock for that matter) saw that coming?

Speaking of awareness, you know we love press and getting our message out, SO we were excited to get a mention on our sponsorship of ConTech Pharma 2022 in STM Publishing News, Weekly Briefing (more details in The Future of Data Licensing section below).

For those of you that would like to get to know DLA in a post-COVID firsthand experience, we are attending the London Book Fair (April 4-7). Email me (dave@dladata.com) to see how partnering with DLA can effectively license your STEM data licensed for AI.

Lastly, thanks a bunch for sharing, liking and commenting on Verse! We love to see our community starting to grow!

~ Dave.

INTERESTING READS

EU and U.S. agree to new data-sharing pact, offering some respite for Big Tech. For over a year, officials on either side of the Atlantic have been hashing out a deal to replace the so-called Privacy Shield, an arrangement allowing firms to share Europeans’ data to the U.S.

10 Must-Have Capabilities of an Enterprise AI Platform. The proliferation of AI projects, ML models, APIs, and data sets to enable these processes present serious challenges that stand in the way of successful AI and ML deployments.

Accenture Technology Vision 2022: “Metaverse Continuum” Redefining How the World Works, Operates and Interacts. A new report from Accenture reveals that the “Metaverse Continuum,” a spectrum of digitally enhanced worlds, realities and business models, is redefining how the world works, operates and interacts.

COMPANY NEWS

Alife Announces its $22 Million Series A to Modernize and Personalize Fertility Care with Artificial Intelligence. Its mission is to enhance IVF clinical decision-making with personalized, data-driven patient insights, ultimately helping clinicians maximize each patient's chances of success while lowering costs and barriers to access.

PathAI Partners with Datavant to enable Biopharma Companies to Connect Digital Pathology Data for Research. PathAI, a maker of AI tools and services in pathology, struck a deal with the health data aggregator Datavant to supply its tool with patient information from clinical trials, electronic health records, and other sources.

causaLens, the London deep tech company delivering the future of AI, has raised a $45m Series A round. causaLens is the pioneer of Causal AI — the only AI technology that quantifies cause-and-effect relationships to reason alongside humans in a manner that is trustworthy, explainable, and fair.

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MOVERS AND SHAKERS

Hylant, Promotes David Blum to Chief Innovation Officer.

BMO Financial Group, Appoints Kalpana Yendluri as Managing Director & Head of Data and Analytics Environments.

Dataiku, Announces Edward Bush as Chief Operating Officer.

THE FUTURE OF DATA LICENSING

Don’t worry if you missed the amazing ConTech Pharma 2022 on FAIR Data (co-sponsored by DLA). The recorded sessions are available on demand now!

So if you are a publisher, content strategist or curator, R&D scientist, pharma or digital healthcare professional and this resonates check it out now!

DATA CURATORS

GE Healthcare Developing a Digital Health Platform to Help Providers Accelerate Digital Transformation. The intention is to introduce Edison Digital Health Platform, a vendor-agnostic hosting and data aggregation platform with an integrated artificial intelligence (AI) engine.

New EU law targets big tech companies with expansive digital antitrust law. The European Commission said the law is among the first initiatives to comprehensively regulate the power of so-called "tech gatekeeper power."

Japan’s first full-fledged preprint server Jxiv to be operational. Jxiv is the first full-fledged preprint server in Japan that makes unpublished, pre-reviewed papers (preprints) openly available, to support rapid-release research results and promote open science.

... and finally, this ‘Movie Trivia’ Quiz from quizly.co – How well can you do?

Verse 6: Freestyle

As we put this edition of Verse together we were floored watching the freestyle Big Air event at the Winter Olympics set against the backdrop of a former steel mill. So, with our feet and heads firmly back on Terra Ferma let's crack on with this issue of the Verse.

Complete with some of the latest happenings in the world of STEM data, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

As always, we’d love to hear from you, so send me a DM or post a comment to let us know how we can make Verse better. Thanks again!

~ Dave.

Interesting Reads

How Google is Killing the Data Scientist, while working for Google, ‘Galen B’ realized the Data Scientist as we know it is a breed dying right before his eyes.

The European Union today launched its new clinical trial registry, a key development in a long-standing battle over transparency into medical research. Pharmaceutical companies, universities and hospitals are now legally required to make the results of drug trials public within one year after completing a study.

Elite Deep Learning for Natural Language Technologies: Representation Learning. The ascendancy of representation learning for advanced machine learning deployments of natural language technologies is indisputable. When buttressed by the scale and compute of deep learning, this approach engenders a lengthy list of accomplishments in this Artificial Intelligence area that not only pertains to machines processing human languages, but to statistical AI in general.

Company News

Germany scuttles a $5 billion chip deal with Taiwan firm amid tech sovereignty concerns, GlobalWafers, a Taiwanese firm that makes silicon wafers for computer chips, will no longer buy Munich-headquartered rival Siltronic after policymakers in Germany failed to approve the deal in time.

Sigmoid Partners with MobileFuse to Accelerate Advanced Analytics, Business Intelligence and Reporting for its Clients. This partnership helps MobileFuse cater to high volume data requests from its growing client base.

Faisal Belhoul Joins Forces with iGan Partners to Launch US$250 Million iGan Arabia Fund to Drive MedTech Innovation in MENA.

Maxwell Healthcare Associates and Select Data Unite to solve Coding & Documentation Challenges using (AI) Artificial Intelligence. The partnership aim is to optimize the post-acute space with high-quality coding and clinical documentation review processes.

Movers and Shakers

Tableau, Appoints Wendy Turner-Williams as Chief Data Officer.

Domo Announced Mohammed Aaser as Chief Data Officer.

GLYNT.AI, Inc Appoints Chieng Moua to Drive Enterprise Solutions for Carbon Emissions Data.

Data Curators

Google, Atypon, NIH, and Information Discovery’s AI-Fueled Future: Notes from a BioASQ Panel. They note that it was still disappointing for COVID-19 to have kept us physically apart, the valuable tradeoff is how the pandemic continues to provide an urgent real-world target with global consequences.

Figshare awarded NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative grant to enhance functionality for the research community.

Figshare is to participate in a new NIH initiative, the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI). GREI is led by the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) and provides funding for repositories to grow their functionality and better meet the needs of research communities and the NIH Desirable Characteristics for Data Repositories.

Springer Nature creates the role of Chief Solutions Officer to accelerate knowledge discovery. The publisher has created a new senior role to develop broader AI-powered knowledge solutions utilizing the company’s databases, analytics and market intelligence capabilities.

... and finally, this Random Knowledge Quiz from quizly.co – How well can you do?

Verse 5: Data Curators - the Versatility of Verse.

Due to your feedback, we’ve added a ‘Data Curators’ section. That’s the Versatility of Verse (see what we did!).

This issue still comes complete with some of the latest happenings in the world of STEM data, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

As always, we’d love to hear from you, so send me a DM or post a comment wherever you found Verse to let us know how we can make Verse better. Thanks again!

~ Dave.

Interesting Reads

LinkedIn released annual data on worldwide trends in hiring, employment, and workplaces. Spoiler alert: Emerging-tech jobs are on the up-and-up—especially when it comes to AI.

Rise of the preprint: how rapid data sharing during COVID-19 has changed science forever.

Call Center AI Market: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2021-2030, finds the value of the global call center artificial intelligence (AI) market in 2020 reached almost US$960 million and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 26% through 2030, reaching US$9.95 billion.

Leaders across Healthcare, Academia and Technology form new coalition to transform the healthcare journey through responsible AI adoption.

Terms and conditions suck. The TLDR Act would force tech companies to break legal jargon into understandable language, and be more transparent about data collection.

Company News

AI drug discovery startup BenchSci scores $63 million Series C round led by Inovia, TCV. BenchSci says its tech is used by 16 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies.

Evocalize raises US$12 million series A to democratize sophisticated digital marketing for local businesses.

SoftBank to raise over $250m to fund its work in high-altitude mobile services from the stratosphere.

Transpara AI Breast Care - Global Expansion Planned for 2022, it will see a larger global team and further research and development, resulting in an expansion of ScreenPoint's product portfolio.

AI-Driven Autonomous Testing Pioneer Appvance Raises US$13 million to Disrupt the US$120 billion Software Testing Market.

Movers and Shakers

REINZ Appointed Miles Fordyce as Chief Digital and Innovation Officer.

Salesforce Appoints Wendy Batchelder as SVP of Global Data Governance and Chief Data Officer of Trust.

Equideum Health Appoints Debbie Bucci as Chief Data Officer.

Data Curators

Elsevier’s ScienceDirect as Content Supercontinent?

Does the news of Wiley etc. syndicating to ScienceDirect mean Elsevier is developing a supercontinent to compete with ResearchGate and Google Scholar?

MIT Technology Review Insights: Building a high-performance data organization.

Check out this free report. Every organization today recognizes the strategic value of generating actionable insights from their enterprise data. That’s why data-driven companies are deploying increasingly advanced cloud-based technologies, including analytics tools with machine learning capabilities — but they’re still hamstrung by a lack of abundant, easily accessible, high-quality data.

Can Technology in the Post-cookie World be Designed to Respect User Privacy?

Minhaj Rais looks at possible solutions for beneficial data mining activities that don’t infringe on user privacy.

... and finally, this Space Beyond Our Solar System Quiz from quizly.co – How well can you do?

Verse 4: Excitement and Frustration

Welcome to the second Verse of 2022!

As we bring you some of the latest or relevant happenings in the world of STEM data and Ai/ML, we are feeling both excitement about the evolving Ai landscape and a promise of a better future, and pain and frustration Covid is having on humanity.

We hope you keep your chin up (as “they” say), cause we know there is light at the end of the tunnel. As always, we’d love to hear from you. Please share your comments with us about how we can make Verse better. Thanks again!

~ Dave.

Interesting Reads

What data management leaders see for the sector in 2022.

The Missing Role your Organization Needs for the Success of your AI Initiatives.

Kubernetes for data engineering - Yes, it’s a good idea.

Decentralized Storage Removes the Headache from Data Backups.

68% of CTOs have Implemented Machine Learning at their Organization.

Company News

Amgen bets $50 million on machine learning, it’s signed a research collaboration with machine-learning startup founded by Flagship Pioneering.

Highmark Health and Bosch launch a research collaboration to study the role of deep audio AI in diagnosing pediatric pulmonary conditions.

Dark Data is Only the Tip of the Iceberg.

Digital 9 to expand Iceland’s Verne Global data center by 20MW.

Alteryx Announces Acquisition of Trifacta.

Movers and Shakers

Cogniac Appoints Ledi Imeraj as New Head of Platform Strategy.

SymphonyAI Appoints Vijay Raghavendra to CTO Position.

Glassbeam Appoints Eric Milledge as Chairman.

Data Curators

Build a Better Academic Blog[ger]

Academic blogging sounds like an oxymoron. Bloggers are commonly associated with popular culture and a casual tone, and academic writers — are academic. A short-form blog post makes academic content more accessible to a larger audience. How can publishers help their academic authors advocate for their own research and build a better academic blog[ger]?

Maximizing Your Metadata

Most publishers understand the value of metadata to building and maintaining a searchable online presence. Once you’ve mastered the basics, what can you do to maximize metadata’s effects?

... and finally, this Tough General Knowledge Quiz from quizly.co – How well can you do?

Special Edition: FutureScapes

Prefer email?

Dave Myers of the DLA in conversation with David Worlock, Outsell, Inc.

Verse 2: Finding our Voice – the right verse.

We hope you enjoyed the inaugural edition of Verse! Here is our second with some of the latest or relevant happenings in the world of STEM data, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

As we fine-tune Verse, we’d love to hear from you. Please share your comments with us about how we can make sure we find the right voice for the community.

Thanks again and Happy Holidays to all! ~ Dave.

Interesting Reads

DeepMind AI tackles one of chemistry’s most valuable techniques.

Amazon has published a post-event summary to shed some light on the root cause behind the recent massive AWS outage that took down a long list of high-profile sites and online services.

Why you need these 5 skills on your resume today, says CEO who has read over 1,000 resumes this year.

Amazon announced plans to shut down its global website ranking system and competitor analysis tool "Alexa.com", which has been available for 25 years.

Python power-up: new image tool visualizes complex data. The image viewing and analysis software napari has filled a gap in the programming language’s scientific ecosystem.

A Microsoft Researcher on the Power (and Perils) of Building A.I. Harvard anthropologist Mary Gray explains why some of the biggest problems can arise in the earliest stages.

Optibrium Shows Deep Learning to Successfully Predict Human Panel-based Sensory Perception of Novel Compounds Used for Flavors and Fragrances.

Company News

Bloomberg announced that its Data License content is now available to clients on Amazon Web Services (AWS), enabling clients globally to receive content cloud-natively and dramatically reducing data onboarding time.

Odyssey Announces Agreement to Combine with BenevolentAI.

The $500mm+ Debacle at Zillow Offers – What Went Wrong with the AI Models?

Pentagon to name AI chief. The U.S. Defense Department says next year it will hire its first chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, reporting directly to Deputy Defense Secretary.

Duke, Mayo Clinic and UC Berkeley and others launch innovative AI collaboration.

Movers and Shakers

Decentralized clinical trials company Thread hired Scott Pearson to be chief product officer. Pearson most recently had a stint at Amazon, as head of product for healthcare and life sciences.

Jungle Scout appoints Amazon veteran Stephen Curial as company's first Chief Technology Officer.

Upcoming Conferences

January 26-28, 2022, The PMWC 2022 AI and Data Sciences Track. Santa Clara Convention Center

for all who work with large data sets to learn first-hand from leaders in the field about recent data and technology developments and how the various advancements will expedite both improved healthcare solutions and business outcomes.

March 10, 2022. CDO Magazine & EDM Council present: Data for Good Global Summit 2022

Agenda highlights include:

• Data Innovation for Good (challenges and opportunities)

• Data for Good in the Public Sector

• IoT data to improve society

• Data to improve environmental sustainability and ESG initiatives

• Public-domain Data for Good

• Data leveraged for the betterment of mankind

... and finally, ‘which early hominid are you?’ quiz made by palaeoanthropologist Marc Kissel.

Verse 1: Inaugural issue – rare and valuable!

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Verse. We will provide the community with a roundup of relevant happenings in the world of STEM data, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Our goal is to foster community by being timely, informative, and relevant so that we can engage in meaningful dialogues. Oh, and btw, we hope to have some fun along the way…. ~ Dave.

Interesting Reads

Saudi Arabia has announced plans to build an eight-sided port city called Oxagon, its billed as being a comprehensive cognitive city' that will make use of robots and AI and act as an industrial port hub for the country's newest region in the northwest - Neom.

Microsoft organized a breakfast discussion with WIRED Health: Tech to talk about the real-world applications of AI in healthcare.

Ahead-of-the-Curve Breakthroughs in AI-Powered Smart Medicine

As the New Year beckons inside BIGDATA discusses 2022 trends in big data, data meshes, and composability.

TensorFlow and PyTorch are two of the most popular frameworks to construct neural network architectures, but with many ML developers moving towards PyTorch. What's the best way to make a successful transition? In this article, you’ll find all the essentials, from the basics of the installation process to the pros and cons of PyTorch.

To guide you in becoming a data-driven organization, AWS Data Exchange has created a new eBook, 101 Ways to Use Third-Party Data to Make Smarter Decisions.

The Broad Groups data economy round-up of five things you need to know, from around the world.

Company News

Venture-capital firms are pouring a record amount of cash into AI agricultural software startups, reports the WSJ. Vancouver startup Semiosbio Technologies Inc., which offers an AI-based service to help farmers manage crops and control pests, has raised about $200 million to date and is valued at more than $1 billion.

Investors have put $1.54 billion into AI agriculture software firms so far this year, up from $1.42 billion in 2020, according to PitchBook Data Inc.

AI News reported that Clearview AI is close to obtaining a patent despite regulatory crackdown.

Science Daily reports on a Light-Powered Soft Robots Could Suck Up Oil Spills.

Noteable, a no-code data visualization platform, announced that it raised $21 million in a series A round led by Bain Capital Ventures, bringing the Cupertino, California-based startup’s total raised to $24 million with $4 million in seed funding from Wing Venture Capital.

Dan Kulp, COPE Chair, gives an update on COPE's recent activity: the latest guidance around editorial board participation, bias in peer review, and artificial intelligence; plus plans for 2022.

Movers and Shakers

Ex-Googler Timnit Gebru Starts Her Own AI Research Center

Denice Ross is Next U.S. Chief Data Scientist

Coca-Cola appoints Dr. Silvia Ochoa, Ph.D. as Global Head, Data Science

Former Yes Bank's AI Head and Eminent Data Scientist, Utpal Chakraborty joins Allied Digital as Chief Digital Officer

Social Networking

During the pandemic and restrictions on travel, a great way to keep up-to-date with the community is through LinkedIn groups. Here are 5 to check out:

1. Data Scientist & Analyst

2. AI | Big Data | Machine Learning | Predictive & Cloud Analytics | Data Science | Deep Learning

3. Data Scientists

4. Advanced Analytics and Data Science

5. KDnuggets AI, Big Data, Data Science, Machine Learning group

... and finally, this Astrophysicists Quiz from quizly.co – How well can you do?