A remarkably authoritative, deep dive into a field that will be brand-new to many and eye-opening for all.
A treasure trove of technical detail, likely to become a definitive source on text analytics.
This debut book by Reamy, the founder of the KAPS Group consultancy, is a highly targeted, in-depth study of an emerging area of technology—the process of analyzing large volumes of text via a variety of technical means in order to gain deeper understanding and insight into its content. In Part 1, the author defines the specific components of text analytics and describes its basics. He also eloquently discusses its value, asserting that it can save money and enhance productivity by, for example, increasing the accuracy of employee searches for specific documents so that they don’t need to be re-created. Reamy then lays out a comprehensive plan for how to implement text analytics that includes establishing a team, evaluating and implementing software, and developing specific applications. Part 2 then covers all aspects of “getting started” while providing a brief history of the technology, and Part 3 explores the development of text analytics in enterprises and social media, supplemented by case studies that demonstrate best practices. Part 4 describes search-based applications, which he calls “InfoApps,” and Part 5 looks into using text analytics as an enterprise platform. The author’s excellent concluding chapter offers a tidy summary of the entire book as well as an essay on the future with forays into cognitive computing, which “largely consists of machine learning and neural networks,” and “deep text semantic infrastructure,” which essentially tracks and comprehends content throughout an entire enterprise. The real lasting value of text analytics, writes Reamy, will be as “a means of incorporating the whole dimension of semantics and meaning in new, richer, deeper ways that accomplish the ultimate goal—making people smarter.” The book’s copious notes, appendices, and bibliography enrich the text with its lists of text-analytics companies and software and other valuable resources. One of the main strengths of this book, though, is that even when its content is highly technical, it’s so well-organized and tightly written that it’s quite enjoyable to read.
A remarkably authoritative, deep dive into a field that will be brand-new to many and eye-opening for all.Pub Date: July 26, 2016
ISBN: 978-1-57387-529-5
Page Count: 424
Publisher: Information Today Inc
Review Posted Online: Nov. 10, 2016
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2017
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
An autobiography as toxic and addictive as any drug its author has ever ingested.
The legendary booze-addled metal rocker turned reality-TV star comes clean in his tell-all autobiography.
Although brought up in the bleak British factory town of Aston, John “Ozzy” Osbourne’s tragicomic rags-to-riches tale is somehow quintessentially American. It’s an epic dream/nightmare that takes him from Winson Green prison in 1966 to a presidential dinner with George W. Bush in 2004. Tracing his adult life from petty thief and slaughterhouse worker to rock star, Osbourne’s first-person slang-and-expletive-driven style comes off like he’s casually relating his story while knocking back pints at the pub. “What you read here,” he writes, “is what dribbled out of the jelly I call my brain when I asked it for my life story.” During the late 1960s his transformation from inept shoplifter to notorious Black Sabbath frontman was unlikely enough. In fact, the band got its first paying gigs by waiting outside concert venues hoping the regularly scheduled act wouldn’t show. After a few years, Osbourne and his bandmates were touring America and becoming millionaires from their riff-heavy doom music. As expected, with success came personal excess and inevitable alienation from the other members of the group. But as a solo performer, Osbourne’s predilection for guns, drink, drugs, near-death experiences, cruelty to animals and relieving himself in public soon became the stuff of legend. His most infamous exploits—biting the head off a bat and accidentally urinating on the Alamo—are addressed, but they seem tame compared to other dark moments of his checkered past: nearly killing his wife Sharon during an alcohol-induced blackout, waking up after a bender in the middle of a busy highway, burning down his backyard, etc. Osbourne is confessional to a fault, jeopardizing his demonic-rocker reputation with glib remarks about his love for Paul McCartney and Robin Williams. The most distinguishing feature of the book is the staggering chapter-by-chapter accumulation of drunken mishaps, bodily dysfunctions and drug-induced mayhem over a 40-plus-year career—a résumé of anti-social atrocities comparable to any of rock ’n’ roll’s most reckless outlaws.
An autobiography as toxic and addictive as any drug its author has ever ingested.Pub Date: Jan. 25, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-446-56989-7
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 2009
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