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Big Data and Entity Analytics

Deploying Machine Learning at the Edge

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by Kevin Heald, Matt Teschke

From the team that presented AWS re:Invent 2018 session WPS304 “Rapid Prototyping for Today’s Mission”.   Problem It’s imperative for warfighters to have actionable, up-to-date knowledge about their adversaries. This requires having the ability to quickly process and analyze new data when and where it is discovered. The current procedure for gathering, processing, and analyzing data can take weeks or months due to logistics, transport, and data handling complications. Using the AWS Snowball Edge, this entire process can be automated, delivering insights from data collected in the field within minutes or hours.   AWS Snowball Edge The Snowball Edge is...

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Novetta has BIG PLANS for AWS re:Invent 2018

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Novetta is excited to return to one of the world’s largest tech conferences, AWS re:Invent! This year there are even more ways to engage with us in Las Vegas. For the first time, Novetta will have leaders on stage in two speaking sessions, we are returning to our suite at the Venetian to give customized demos, and we are sponsoring two Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) events. As in all great partnerships, Novetta and AWS are better together.  Novetta’s advanced analytics technology is enhanced by AWS services and we are proud to offer our support, and contribute our expertise and innovation,...

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NLP Transfer Learning on SageMaker

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by Matt Teschke, Bernard Yuan

Novetta Machine Learning Center of Excellence effort to develop a deep learning model that predicts customer-relevant metadata tags for unstructured text.   BACKGROUND: ENRICHMENT OF UNSTRUCTURED TEXT DATA The rise of the internet has led to a faster flow of information, where news posted to a relatively obscure blog can be shared on social media and then reach national publications within hours. The volume is such that humans alone cannot filter out noise, identify important new information, and determine how messaging trends are changing over time. To address this challenge, Novetta Mission Analytics (NMA) helps customers analyze open source and...

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Cyber Self-Defense: Five Ways to Protect Yourself

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  1. Be aware that you ARE a target. We hear it in Cyber Security circles pretty often; “I/we/my company doesn’t have anything Hackers want.” According to Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) for 2018, 76% of breaches were financially motivated. Attackers want your Personally Identifiable Information (PII) so they can assume your identity not only to steal your hard earned money from your bank accounts and Paypal account but also to apply for fraudulent credit cards. Cyber Criminals will even go as far as stealing a very young child’s identity to apply for credit and open up fraudulent accounts....

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Named Entity Recognition and Graph Visualization

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PHASE I RECAP We are exploring the problem space of Named Entity Recognition (NER): processing unannotated text and extracting people, locations, and organizations. A previous post described our comparative performance evaluation of several open source and commercial NER libraries. Based upon this evaluation we determined that Amazon Comprehend (an AWS solution) performed robustly against test corpora, while the top open source solutions for the NER task were AllenNLP ELMo, Stanford NER Tagger, and NeuroNER. PURPOSE This blog post picks up where the previous post left off, building on evaluation results to explore a practical application of NER. TOOLS To facilitate this...

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Evaluating Solutions for Named Entity Recognition

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BACKGROUND Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Entity Extraction are interchangeable terms that refer to the task of classifying “named entities” into pre-defined categories such as the names of persons, organizations, locations, etc.1 Let’s look at an example of how this actually works. Given a sample input: John went to the Bank of America in Washington DC An NER algorithm will read in this sentence and look to tag words it recognized as persons, organizations, locations, etc. The following represents the tagged version of the sentence: [John]PERSON went to the [Bank of America]ORGANIZATION in [Washington DC]LOCATION Such tagging is useful because...

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To gain insights into the state of the art of Named Entity Recognition (NER) solutions, Novetta conducted a quick-look study exploring the entity extraction performance of five open source solutions as well as AWS Comprehend.

Predictive Analytics for Intelligence

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The role of qualitative research in predictive analytics Novetta’s portfolio of work stretches across the public and private sectors. One common thread across many of our projects is our clients’ need to quantify risk, and make decisions in the presence of uncertainty. Whether it be identifying travelers at risk of human smuggling or protecting critical technologies; our clients are faced with a myriad of challenges. They must make decisions about these threats, and the cost of a wrong decision often goes well beyond lost resources. They’re also surrounded by data. It comes in all forms and sizes, and is usually very (very,...

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Your Data Model Should be Entity-Centric – You Just Don’t Know it Yet

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Why industry leaders are choosing entity-centric data analytics strategies Businesses across every major industry are adopting data-driven strategies. Those in the leading edge are adopting entity-centric data analytics. The term entity-centric has yet to enter the mainstream lexicon. Entity-centric refers to an approach to data modeling or data analysis, in which information is structured around and referenced by the properties and relationships of real-world “things” or entities. Entity-centric modeling contrasts with the more conventional methods of table-centric data modeling and application-driven data analysis, in which information is structured around and referenced by tables, columns, and rows for specific applications. Businesses...

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Does Entity Resolution Matter When it Comes to Information Management and Analysis?

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Yes, entity resolution does matter – tremendously – when it comes to information management and analysis.  In fact, Novetta Entity Analytics unlocks the potential of data and enables organizations to get more out of existing enterprise technologies and applications. We’ve just released a new whitepaper on this topic; get it here. Does your organization already have data integration or data quality tools?  How about data warehouse or MDM tools?  Are those tools giving you the clearest, most high fidelity look at the people, places, products or events you’re interested in?  Wouldn’t it be great if you could ratchet up their performance so that...

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Identity and Change: A Practical Solution

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If you replaced the head and the handle of a hammer, would it be the same hammer? This old thought experiment dates back to the philosophers of Ancient Greece, and it reveals a paradoxical relationship between identity and change. How and to what extent can something change while retaining its identity? A solution to this paradox is crucial to entity analytics, the science of linking bits of information to reveal the web of people, objects, events, and other things of value in business and governance. This is the embodiment of what many consider to be the vision of “big data”...

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