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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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Achieving Marketplace 2.0
Some of my recent explorations of e-procurement systems led me to this upcoming AMR webinar. See my previous post on ViniMaya, a strong contender in this space....
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Shopkick at BestBuy
What appears to be an easy to use location based promotion system that does not require explicit check-in once enabled. Also, the automatic check-in cannot beBest...
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FlowingData
Check out Nathan Yau's always interesting visualization and statistics site: FlowingData.
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Advertising Policy
Readers, Publishers, Vendors,I have had an increasing number of requests to have advertising links placed in this blog.In general I do not take advertising that...
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Subtle Patterns in Complex Events
I have now seen a number of live demonstrations of Recorded Future and am increasingly intrigued by the subtle complexity that is revealed when we can do something...
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SASCom Centers of Excellence Webinar
Upcoming Wednesday, a very useful topic:"Centers of Excellence 101: How to maximize knowledge from BI and analytical resourcesIt's webinar time again! This hour...
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Franz Edelman Award Submissions
While at the Procter & Gamble company I was involved in finalist and winning submissions for the Franz Edelman Award. I am a big proponent. Its purpose " ..More...
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Kroger Pushes Private Label Beauty
Big brand manufacturers continue to be nervous about how retailers are increasingly promoting private label (aka store brands). Beauty care products have been less...
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Infographic Overuse
This infographic about new and declining social media was recently much touted. It would attract attention if hung on the wall, but it is no more than a list of...
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Marketing Analysis Tools from HBS
These are inexpensive PDFs used in courses that include Excel templates. Have not examined in detail, but might be useful to get started in the basic analyticsHBS...
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Does Arithmetic Need to Be Saved?
Arithmetic broken? Provocative little piece via Richard James. In New Scientist: "...Mathematicians are facing a stark choice
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FourSquare Style Case Studies
Walter Riker, author of the excellent introductory Ease of Blogging space, points me to an good set of examples of using FourSquare type methods. Thanks Walter....
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Brave New Google and Intelligence
Nick Carr satirically views the interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt in the WSJ yesterday. Schmidt positions the future of search as an artificial intelligence...
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Physics Wins in Net Neutrality
Colleague Mark Montgomery in the KYield blog, On Net Neutrality: " ... The net neutrality issue is finally being debated, thanks not to populist politics, but rather...
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24 Hour Customer
Newly acquired: The 24-Hour Customer: New Rules for Winning in a Time-Starved, Always-Connected Economy by Adrian C. Ott. Just started, nicely focused to the time...
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Looking for Entelligence
The concept of dedicated devices that reside on the net and update us with key information and services is not a new one.
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Nanotech Electronic Noses
New work in building electronic noses. We experimented with the idea for blending beverages. In general the electronic sensors were not accurate enough.
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Panic in the Science of Crowds
The science of crowds is another thing we followed to understand what goes on in retail. This is not directly related to the retail context, but shows the depth...
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