It’s no secret that finding the right datasets for your analysis creates a huge hurdle when starting new data projects. You have countless sources to choose from, yet even when you think you’ve found the perfect data, your project fails to produce the...
The COVID-19 pandemic turned the world upside-down, moving working, learning, and socializing from physical to digital almost overnight. Like others going through this transformation, higher education institutions struggled to keep up with this sudden shift. The...
Nexis Data Lab is an exciting first for LexisNexis. Historically a content provider, LexisNexis recognized an opportunity to create something a little different for students, professors and other academic researchers: A data research and analysis tool that enables...
In a recent live webinar event, LexisNexis team members Margaret Hart and Hatim El Faiz teamed up to share what makes Nexis Data Lab such a powerful data research and analytics tool for academic researchers. First, Hatim explained how Data Lab streamlines and accelerates...
Who doesn’t love a good hackathon? In March 2022, LexisNexis sponsored a Nexis® Data Lab Hackathon as part of the Big Data & Analytics Association (BDAA) and Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) Spring Forum. We asked participants at Ohio...
After the ball drops, the fireworks fizzle, and the crowds clear, it’s time to shift gears. Ringing in the new year also means readying for the latest trends. Recently, we highlighted some of those trends here on our blog and in this free trend report for...
Big data is an understatement given what it describes. Take the amount of data in the world a year ago— approximately 44 zettabytes. That’s a “44” with 21 zeros after it. Still trying to wrap your mind around that number? Picture this: 44...
“Being prepared is about anticipating what comes next and getting ready for it,” writes Tony Rea in What They Don’t Teach You in Sales School . It’s a concept that resonates here at Nexis Solutions too. Our commitment to developing innovative...
At its core, market intelligence depends on capturing relevant information from multiple sources to build out a comprehensive view of an existing market, trends over time, its customers, and competitors—all to gain insights into potential risks or growth...
Nearly a decade ago, the Harvard Business Review proclaimed the data scientist as the “Sexiest Job of the 21 st Century. Back then, authors noted that “More than anything, what data scientists do is make discoveries while swimming in data.” Is...
There’s nothing like hands-on experience with research and analytics tools for giving your students the practical knowledge needed for the data-driven careers awaiting them. Data discovery and analysis, however, can be riddled with challenges that slow their...
American philosopher and author Matthew Stewart has said that “One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results.” That fact doesn’t change just because the type of...
“As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.” Steven Johnson, host of the PBS series How We Got to Now and the podcast American Innovations , isn’t...
Over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are generated every day . Yep, that’s quintillion with a Q. Data is created by every click, swipe, share, search, and stream. Consider, every minute of 2020, somewhere in the world: Facebook users uploaded 147,000...
Data scientists represent one of the most in-demand careers today. As Towards Data Science noted earlier this year, demand for data science jobs has climbed 650% in the past decade. It’s a key driver behind the growth of Data Science programs at universities...