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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Finding Your Smile
An idea related to previous work at MIT to determine how people reacted to ideas, products and interaction. We examined this previously to determine how people...
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Data Science Summit Videos
A number of videos from the Data Science Summit via Greenplum that are worth examining. Useful selection from 2011 as well: The few I have looked at so far...
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Why we Lie
Why we Lie. by Dan Ariely. Why we do, and how he has experimented with methods to increase and decrease the likelihood of the lie. As usual a thought provoking...
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Wearable Computing
In the WSJ: More on wearable computing solutions like Google Glasses. A favorite topic based on our own experiments. Inevitable? " ... Some computer scientists...
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Grades and Tuitions are Inflated
Data and graphs from Mark Perry on the inflation of grades and college costs. Are they related? Hearing more talk about the necessity of a college education....
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Evolving Mind Mapping
I worked with concept and mind mapping for a number of years, and use it still for consulting interactions. It is still evolving. Allowing us to co-create conversations...
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Turing Centenary
ACM Turing Centenary Celebration to Be Webcast Live!If you can't attend ACM's Turing Centenary Celebration, you can still experience the thrill of rubbing elbows...
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Taming the Big Data Wave
I have been reading: Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave: Finding Opportunities in Huge Data Streams with Advanced Analytics by Bill Franks. I read this in preparation...
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Petabytes and PetaFlops
In ComputerWorld: Word of new examples really big data, and at the same time using really fast computers to examine that data at the NCSA. New challenges are emerging...
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Predictive Analytics and Medicaid Fraud
A good example of using predictive analytics with medical data. Here with billing data: " ... "The beauty of this system is that it recognizes patterns of billing...
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Turn any Wall into a Touchscreen
Gestural Surfaces. A look at the Ubi Interactive use of Microsoft Kinect for touchscreen construction. Are we ready for the broader applications of gestures in...
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Finance from Wolfram
And a finance platform from Wolfram Research. Perhaps an unlikely connection but the possibilities are good. I like the process-workflow connection; " .....
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Simplicity Isn't Simple
Isn't it? An interview with Apple design chief. " ... "Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging," says Ive. "Our goal is to...
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National Retail Data Monitor
Colleague Mike Robinson of Laverdad Marketing reminded me of an effort we were involved in: The National Retail Data Monitor. Which is designed to detect pharma...
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Text Analytics and the Value of the Unstructured
In Information Management: Bottom line is that unstructured data is important. Unstructured is also more than just text, images and video are becoming increasingly...
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Simple Charts Tell a Story
In Flowingdata.. An illustration of my favorite precept, that simple is better. It is true that visualizaton can make very complex things appear simpler. But...
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Big Data and Health Care
An interesting example using the case of sleep apnea contributing to car accidents.
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P&G Wins Effie
P&G tops the list of the ten most effective advertisers. " ... IBM and Microsoft, tied with EA, come in at No. 2 and No. 3, respectively.
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Intuit Using Big Data to Delight You
In GigaOM: Some months back I gave a talk at Intuit on the leveraging of data resources. This is not an outcome of that, but an intriguing direction that they...
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