Communications of the ACM
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June 2013
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet Trends
Mary Meeker's compendium of internet statistics is one that I remember reading every year. Admit I have not for a few years. But it remains a rich assortment of statistics and trend information. Slide deck from KPCB.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Escaping Innovation Brainstorm
Video: Escaping from the brainstorm in Innovation. In the HBR. " ... Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg, coauthor of Innovation as Usual, explains how to drive innovation on a daily basis. .. "
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data from Cheap Phones
In Technology Review: A point I often make in talks I give, the smart phone is a cheap, ubiquitous device that spews data, and thus useful patterns to be detected. " ... Collecting and analyzing information from simple cell…
From Putting People First
Interaction14 website live
Next year Interaction14, the top interaction design conference will be in Amsterdam, the second time it is in Europe (after Dublin in 2012). Now the website is live. And it is responsive (works great on a smartphone). Participate…
From Putting People First
The limits of Big Data in the Big City
To be sure, big tech can zap some city weaknesses. But, argues Alec Appelbaum, many urban problems require a decidedly different approach. “The answers that make cities run more smoothly only inadvertently end up being the ones…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How To Overcome Silicon Valley
There seems to be an endless stream of articles these days on two closely related topics. The shortage of people in technology who are not white or Asian males and the overall shortage of people in technology. It seems clearSo…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Stocks with Neon Dots
In Bloomberg: Wal-Mart brings in an outside auditor who uses Neon green dots to mark stocking outages. Hmmm ... this sounds like the Hawthorne effect. Workers pay more attention when things are 'illuminated' to require focus…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Workforce Management
IBM uses analytics to deliver global workforce management. Press release. An area I did some work in for the enterprise. " .... today unveiled new Big Data analytics software and services to help organizations build and maintain…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fix Your Processes
For better analytics, fix your processes. Have always said that, but take it a step forward, analytics is all about fixing and tuning your processes.
From Putting People First
Papers about sense-making and ethnotelling
From the Journal of Information Architecture: Sense-making in Cross-channel Design Jon Fisher (Nomensa), Simon Norris (Nomensa), and Elizabeth Buie (Luminanze Consulting) Successful cross-channel user experiences rely upon a…
From Putting People First
The six myths of Big Data
During her keynote speech at the DataEdge conference, Kate Crawford, a researcher at Microsoft Research, identified what she calls “six myths of Big Data.”: 1. Big Data is new 2. Big Data is objective 3. Big Data doesn’t discriminate…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Targeted Data Science
In GigaOM: Still not convinced that it is the sheer wealth of of data that is driving the big data science movement. Are there are any new analytic methods that have been created in the last decade that make a difference regardless…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Why Is There Something?
And is there everything? not the src Jim Holt is the author of the modestly titled book, Why Does The World Exist? He has—as his book’s back cover says—written on string theory, time, infinity, numbers, truth, and even stercus…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facial Recognition Glasses
Its natural to think of wearable augmented reality glasses including a facial recognition system. But apparently Google has no plans to include such software at this time. In Engadget.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Highlights from Congressional Briefing on Patent Litigation Reform
The Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee yesterday held a panel discussion on “If Patent Litigation Is Strangling High Tech Innovation, When Will Congress Act?” The panelists debated whether Congress should be addressing…