Introduction Since its release in 2018, Novetta’s Machine Learning Center of Excellence has evaluated the performance of Universal Language Model Fine-Tuning (ULMFiT)1 against many customer use cases. We have found that automated labeling of unstructured text helps analysts be more efficient, freeing them up to focus on higher-value tasks. We have been so impressed with its accuracy that we have deployed ULMFiT against a dataset in a production system, with plans to expand it to dozens of other datasets. While ULMFiT’s performance has been impressive on all the datasets we’ve tested, we thought it could do more. Our first use…
State of the Art Text Classification with ULMFiT
Novetta’s own Matt Teschke will be speaking at ODSC East – Boston in a session titled “State of the Art Text Classification with ULMFiT” at 5:15 PM on May 2, 2019. 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 reach national publications within hours. The volume of information is such that humans alone cannot filter out noise, identify important new viewpoints, and determine how messaging trends are changing over time. At Novetta, we are constantly evaluating advances in deep learning…
Novetta has BIG PLANS for AWS re:Invent 2018
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,…
Novetta Mission Analytics Ebola Case Study
A story of how Novetta Mission Analytics increased the velocity and completion rate of clinical studies in West Africa using data, strategic communications, and monitoring and evaluation. Click image to download.
NLP Transfer Learning on SageMaker
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…
2018 Department of State (DoS) GEC Tech Demo Series
Novetta has been invited to participate in the Department of State’s GEC Tech Demo Series. September 26, 2018 2:00-3:30 PM Eastern Demonstration will feature Novetta Mission Analytics – Open Source/Media Analytics capabilities Presented by David Cyprian & Richard “Beach” Gray of Novetta Read our blog to learn more about Novetta Mission Analytics.
2018 NATO Information and Communicators’ Conference (NICC)
Each year, the NATO military structure hosts the NATO Information and Communicators’ Conference (NICC). This year’s conference will be held from 17 to 21 September 2018 in Rome, Italy. The theme of this year’s conference is Information Environment Assessment (lEA). The NICC is a five-day event, devoted to working groups of the communication disciplines, plenary sessions, and workshops. Attend our speaking session: Thursday, September 20, 2018 0900 Central European Time Room 2B Attendees will learn how to use a data-driven analytic framework to identify entity-centric patterns of behavior and uncover actionable intelligence. We will provide a use case utilizing this…
Detecting Disinformation in Russian Election Coverage
State actors, marketers, and fringe voices use the media – television, radio, print, and online – to achieve influence and shift perceptions. In many cases, this takes the form of disinformation that causes influence without facts, evidence, or logic. Drawing on subject matter expertise and intuition, an observer watching for the dissemination of such messages can sometimes spot examples to support their conclusions. However, identifying this kind of media strategy is incredibly challenging, labor-intensive, and prone to omission and confirmation bias. As analysts working to help our customers manage and mitigate media disinformation, we have found that automated tools provide…
Novetta Mission Analytics with Bureau van Dijk
Novetta Mission Analytics (NMA) is a big data analytics and visualization platform that combines data from disparate sources in a wide variety of formats. This solution gives you the ability to visually map relationships, customize views, and identify targets between entities of interest. As a result, entities and their relationships are quickly understood through customized searching, link-chart visualization, and collaboration. Novetta Mission Analytics uses trusted data from Bureau van Dijk’s Orbis database to reveal connections between entities. Orbis provides information for nearly 220 million companies from over 200 countries. Orbis combines information from regulatory and other sources, and delivers company…
Novetta Mission Analytics Now Available in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace
MCLEAN, VA – Novetta, a leader in advanced analytics technology, today released Novetta Mission Analytics (NMA) in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) marketplace providing big data analysis and visualization capability to individual users with the click of a button. Novetta Mission Analytics is a big data analytics and visualization web application that combines data from disparate sources in a wide variety of formats. This product gives you the ability to visually map relationships, customize views, and identify targets between entities of interest. As a result, entities and their relationships are quickly understood through customized searching, link-chart visualization, and collaboration. “Novetta Mission…
