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Google to Open NYC Store
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google to Open NYC Store

In Retailwire:   Near the now iconic Apple store there. Surely also for prestige purposes.  Also training?   " ... Google will reportedly open its first U.S. store...

P&G Everyday
From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G Everyday

This was brought up me to me again, P&G Everyday, emphasizing the Olympics.  Had not looked at it for for some time. Nicely done, very pictorial.  Contains coupons...

Collaborative Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Collaborative Innovation

Via colleague Louis Killeffer:" ... This week my conversation with Eliot Schreiber,  Chief Operating Officer of Cloverleaf, becomes the fourteenth in a series of...

Should you get a PhD?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Should you get a PhD?

Most people like to learn, some like it more than others… and they decide to focus their life on learning. They become scholars. I think it is a mistake to pursue...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2014

A shocking story from our friendly Leprechaun Neil L. is not a computer scientist—he is a Leprechaun. He has visited me every year since I started writing GLL,...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2014

A shocking story from our friendly Leprechaun Neil L. is not a computer scientist—he is a Leprechaun. He has visited me every year since I started writing GLL,...

Interesting Links 17 March 2014
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 17 March 2014

Apparently the groundhog was right about a long winter. At least for us in New Hampshire. Still plenty of snow on the ground here. Extra incenting to find things...

Six ways to design humanity and localism into Smart Cities
From Putting People First

Six ways to design humanity and localism into Smart Cities

A long post by Rick Robinson, Executive Architect at IBM specialising in emerging technologies and Smarter Cities, admonishes Smart Cities planners and designers...

TIME Magazine Op-Ed: Let Kids Run Wild Online
From Apophenia

TIME Magazine Op-Ed: Let Kids Run Wild Online

I wrote the following op-ed for TIME Magazine. This was published in the March 13, 2014 issue under the title “Let Kids Run Wild Online.” To my surprise and delight...

Digital Asset Management
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Asset Management

In the enterprise we were involved some of the earliest forms of what were to be called Digital Asset Management systems.    Although the assets at the time were...

What Makes a Data Visualization Memorable?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What Makes a Data Visualization Memorable?

Interesting piece in CGW:   The title question alone gives me pause.  I want to make data useful and objective.  I also want a data visualization to be the knowledge...

Why smart cities need an urgent reality check
From Putting People First

Why smart cities need an urgent reality check

Responsive urban technology sounds enticing but citizens must not be disconnected from plans drawn up on their behalf, argues Gary Graham in The Guardian. “It’s...

Data Visualization as the Future
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Visualization as the Future

Short comment piece in Forbes.  Worth a look.  Several comments.  It's not a new thing, it's the convenience to the analyst and the ability to make it interactive...

Looking for the Wearable App
From The Eponymous Pickle

Looking for the Wearable App

Colleague Walter Riker is taking a close look at Google Glass to determine the future of wearable technologies.  Follow his blog here.  Send him some ideas about...

Interview with Roy Marsten
From The Eponymous Pickle

Interview with Roy Marsten

In Data Science Central.  Dr Roy Marsten comes from a similar background to my own,   Operations Research and computational mathematics.  Good to see related  approaches...

Updated Linkedin Headline
From The Eponymous Pickle

Updated Linkedin Headline

I have updated my Linkedin Headline:Business Analytics, Data Scientist, Decision and Expertise Systems. Digital Innovator, Writer and Speaker ... Cincinnati Area...

Consumer Psychology in Surveys
From The Eponymous Pickle

Consumer Psychology in Surveys

Via Wharton's Customer Analytics Initiative (WCAI): "You're always going to want to understand the consumer psychology: why are people doing what they're doing,"...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Could We Have Felt Evidence For SDP ≠ P?

Evaluating mathematical beliefs Rutgers in memoriam source. Leonid Khachiyan in 1979 caused arguably the most sudden surprise to the West’s popular scientific understanding...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Could We Have Felt Evidence For SDP ≠ P?

Evaluating mathematical beliefs Rutgers in memoriam source. Leonid Khachiyan in 1979 caused arguably the most sudden surprise to the West’s popular scientific understanding...

US to Give up Internet Administration
From The Eponymous Pickle

US to Give up Internet Administration

U.S. aims to give up control over Internet administration - in The Washington Post.  What could go wrong here?
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