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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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Shoppologist
Just discovered. The Shoppologist. Retro looking view at things shopping with some discovered gems.
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Smartphone vs Dumbphone and a Lesson in a Bagel Shop
Colleague Walter Riker looks at the Smart phone-dumb phone conundrum. I thought this was all solved already, but maybe not. Can everyone master the smart phone...
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VisionIQ Tagging Images
On VisionIQ: This was brought to mind because in a previous world I dealt with the methodology of reliably tagging arbitrary images, difficult without humanIQ...
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Learning Bursts
A look at the concept of 'learning bursts'. short time duration, repeated learning sessions. " ... A learning burst is a combination of an eight- to 10-minute...
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Preventive Health via Social Gaming
Kind of an obvious thing at one level. But how do you make it work well? Health is a personal thing, so are people willing to share specific information to empower...
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WalMart Labs and Big Data Tools
Intriguing Change:" ... Walmart is making a change in the way it does online commerce and there
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P&G and PInterest
An interesting piece about P&G using Pinterest. Always something new. Not sure if it solves their social media 'problem', but it does get some new brand managers...
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Thinking About Risk
In the WSJ Numbers Guy: Absolute vs Relative risk. An important difference that is often misunderstood.
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New Predictive Analytics Software from IBM
CIO Insights Reports reports about new Predictive Analytic Software and services from IBM. I have thirty years of experience with the use of analytical methods...
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KC to Market in a Digital World
About how Kimberly Clark plans to market in a digital world. Semantics or a key subtlety?" .. Spurring growth for such brands as Huggies, Cottonelle and Scott"It's...
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Putting Smarts in the Smart Grid
In CACM: I visited and presented at GE's Smart Grid Center in Atlanta last year. They are doing some very impressive things and presenting the results to industry...
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Spotfire Social
I was an early user of Spotfire, now Tibco Spotfire. An impressive package for deep data visualization and delivery. They have added a number of social features...
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Lifebrowser Lets You Explore Your Past
Clever idea, from Microsoft, that could have application for mining important aspects of corporate history for training: ... " Prototype software called Lifebrowser...
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I am Available
Every now and then I pop in here to remind people that I am a consultant. I get many queries from my writing in this blog. I have just had two large projects...
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Retail Analytics of Tomorrow
SymphontyIRI and GMA are starting a project on identifying the analytics of tomorrow. " ... GMA is working with research firm SymphonyIRI on Analytics2020, a...
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Fizzback Customer Feedback Channel
Eurostar experiments with Customer Feedback"When considering their options, Haynes and his team trialled a system from Fizzback, a UK start-up that was acquired...
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Business Analytics Roadmap
From AnalyticsBridge: An interesting paper that addresses the process. Somewhat overplayed in my opinion, but it is worth a look for alternatives to design...
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Tide Thefts Rampant
This saw considerable press a few weeks ago. The P&G detergent Tide being used as a 'currency' for criminals. And becoming the object of theft. Not because...
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Preventing Support Agent Burnout
Using game dynamics to prevent support agent burnout. A reasonable area of application since it includes tiresome tasks, but is it reasonably scalable?
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