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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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Critical Look at Gamification
A good look at the issues about gamification. We discovered a number of these in out own explorations. Worth thinking about for anyone interested in the idea...
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Consmr Rates Package Goods
A new service, Consmr hopes to be the Yelp of Consumer Packaged Goods. The name is somewhat hard to follow. Also, how much rating is actually done for these types...
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Panopticon
Stephen Few looks at the data visualization vendor Panopticon. Took a brief look at them some time back, and they are certainly worth a closer examination. As...
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Mismeasure of Man is UnBiased
In the NYT: Have read with great interest the books of Stephen J Gould for years. Now one of his most famous findings, in the Mismeasure of Man, turns out to be...
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IBM's 100th Anniversary
In school I was offered a job working with IBM on disk drive analysis, but I went in another direction. In my first enterprise job I worked with their optimization...
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Future of Analytics at IBM
In Technology Review: IBM researchers are working on systems that can analyze data to tell businesses eactly what action to take ...Visiting artificial intelligence...
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Social Learning Management System
A few weeks ago took a look at an example of a learning management system that had a social component. Here is another that was pointed out to me Interactyx: ...
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Stanford Spatial History Project
Fascinating work at Stanford. Another example of how visualization can me used to organize and gain insight from very complex data. Always wanted to do thisStanford's...
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IEEE Computer on Smart Cities
The June 2011 issue of IEEE Computer is devoted to the topic of Smart Cities. The individual articles are not online yet. The topic, pioneered by IBM, is instructional...
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Information Literacy
The Information Literacy Blog highlights the first online issue of the Journal of Information Literacy. Which is "the adoption of appropriate information behaviour...
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LinkedIn's InMaps
I took a look at LinkedIn's InMaps visualization of my own business connection network when it first came out. A remarkable view of all those people. Nothing...
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Science of Retail Analytics
Rccently brought to my attention as part of a study looking at CPG analytics:Timestar Technologies, ... helps leading consumer packaged goods companies grow sales...
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Paypal as an in Store Option
Indications that PayPal may be coming as an option in physical retail stores.
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CrowdScanner
Brought to my attention for a potential client:The CrowdScanner: Turning networking into people discovery:a fun, serendipitous, interactive experience.See also...
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Business Intelligence Platform Cost of Ownership
Interesting charts. Though I think there are a number of indirect costs as well. Serves as a good starting point. From the Tableau blog, and they fare well on...
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Watson as Physicians Assistant
IBM's Jeopardy expert Watson moves forward and is now working as a physicians assistant. Medical diagnosis was an early application of artificial intelligence...
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Evernote Creates a Peeking Self Test App
A Clever idea. The Evernote note-taking system, which I use, has created a free app which uses the smart cover of the iPad to let you test yourself on information...
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Business Intelligence Database Management Systems
The following excellent Forrester technical report on agile BI methods: The Dawning of the Age of BI DBMS, by Boris Evelson.For Business Process Professionals ...
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People Widget
Google Gmail People widget . Gives you background information about people you are interacting with. It's always good to have relevant context when you are communicating...
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