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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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Creative Machines Overtaking Man
What happens when creative machines overtake us? Can machines be creative? We examined this for the product development context. It did not lead to anything...
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Supermarkets Taking to Tablets
Phil Lempert on how, Supermarket blogger who often has interesting insights, on how retailers are taking to tablets. I have only seen a tablet used once in physical...
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Ultra Precise Location, Indoors and Outdoors
Location capabilities are a long time interest of mine, based on work in retail innovation centers and with several startups with differing accuracy needs and goals...
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Data Modeling Mistakes
A slide show. I post about this here because the slide show images have no relationship to the content. They add no insight. Another example of the infographic...
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Conversable Economist
Newly pointed to by M. Perry's Carpe Diem.: The blog: The Conversable Economist. In particular a post about changes in prices of simple commodities over very...
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Teacher Complaints Against iBooks
Common teacher complaints against iBooks. And more generally against tablets. Better content rather than more is emphasized.
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Atlas Category Placement Tool
I have mentioned Herb Sorenesen's Atlas Category placement simulation tool a number of times. It has now moved to a new location. More about it here, and more...
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Know Where Your Data Comes From
In Adage: It is absolutely fundamental to know where your data comes from and how it was manipulated in route. I have seen this kind of mis-use many times.
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Hurdles for Google Glasses
Good piece on what augmented reality experts are saying about Google Glasses. The idea continues to intrigue me and my clients because it could produce a major...
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E-Book on Strategic Planning
Stengthening Brand America offers an ebook on strategic planning. It relates to an interesting regional topic, Ed Burghard writes: " ... Occasionally, thereI...
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Articles about Analytics and Data Science
From Data Science Central: A good selection of articles about Analytics and Data Science from major publications. Largely non-technical.
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More Screens are Better
In Think With Google: They states the obvious, but also that having your message clearly and efficiently delivered is important. We already know from lots of...
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Video based Detection Methods
Some good points about video detection and analysis. This area continues to get more sophisticated and pervasive. Expect it to get even more common:" .... It's...
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Optimizaing Networks
Fraunhofer report on software that uses simulation to optimize networks. Network technology is often used to understand and make networks more efficient. A common...
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Looking at Store Behavior with Data Mining
A Spectrum IEEE Techwise Conversation with data-mining expert Eric Siegel. Your favorite stores know you all too well. President of Prediction Impact. This company...
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Social Abacus Blog
I was just reminded of Kate Nieder's Social Abacus blog. " ... a social psych PhD who has worked in social media analysis for about 7 years. In September 2008....
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Kiosk and Mobile Connection
A less common approach, a means to deliver coupons to shopper smartphones via BlueTooth. We experimented with coupons that printed on a kiosk in store based...
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Google Glasses
Much in the news: Google Glasses. The not new, but apparently improved idea of putting displays into glasses that are location aware and connected. As I mentioned...
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Data Talking to Data
In the CACM: " ... Some companies on the cutting edge of technology are combining data streaming with advanced data-analytics methods that let them tie information...
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