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Interpreting Predictive Models with Skater
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Interpreting Predictive Models with Skater

One of the most important issues in data science,  interpreting models,  especially for particular contextual use.  And part of the context is always metadata driven...

Spotting Viruses with Machine Learning
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Spotting Viruses with Machine Learning

A furhter indication of the value of pattern recognition ...Machine Learning Spots Treasure Trove of Elusive Viruses In Nature  by Amy MaxmenResearchers have applied...

Facebook Delays Assistant - Smart Speaker
From The Eponymous Pickle

Facebook Delays Assistant - Smart Speaker

More players in the space.  Facebook reportedly delaying smart speaker launch in wake of data outrage    Now might not be the best time for an always-listeningBy...

No Such Things as Corporate Entrepreneurs
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No Such Things as Corporate Entrepreneurs

Disagree, but it is clear they do not evolve the same way. Why There’s No Such Thing as a Corporate Entrepreneur By Scott Kirsner in the HBR Can we please...

Executive's Guide to AI
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Executive's Guide to AI

An Executive’s guide to AI via McKinsey To stay at the forefront of the accelerating artificial-intelligence race, business executives can study up on the basics...

Why Wikipedia
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Why Wikipedia

Have had a long time interest in how we curate the world'd knowledge.  And thus Wikipedia asks ...Wikipedia Asks its Readers Why. Wikipedia has a lot of readers...

CIA Releases Operational Board Games
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CIA Releases Operational Board Games

Intriguing.   How useful these might be is unclear.  I recall seeing a board-style game with supposed espionage related origins that utilized game theory.   WeCIA...

Telepresence Robotics with Autonomy
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Telepresence Robotics with Autonomy

Been a while since I  have seen novel telepresence robotics.   Here is an Ava Robotic telepresence system with autonomous navigation.  We experimented with meeting...

Retailers Need Chat
From The Eponymous Pickle

Retailers Need Chat

We worked with a number of chat style systems well before the Internet could adequately support them.  Now there are lots of ways to implement simple chat and Chatbots...

Travelers Purchase Journey
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Travelers Purchase Journey

Journies within Journies.The Future of travel: New consumer behavior and the technology giving it flight  By Jaclyn LooWith its early use of online booking, the...

Building Intelligent Machines
From The Eponymous Pickle

Building Intelligent Machines

Cautionary review of intelligent machines.   Are they thinking like people, or just with people?  And what are the implications for value and bias?AI savants, recognizing...

Data Mining Text Reviews
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Data Mining Text Reviews

An example of analyzin reviews using analytical methods.Tidy Text Mining Beer ReviewsOn R, tidytext, clustering, classification, correlation, tfidf, knn, dataviz...

Subconscious Choice
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Subconscious Choice

Reminder of work in the past, and Zaltman.   Back to measurement challenges.  Still being done, but to what value?  Read my previous tags from long ago.HarvardWhen...

Visualizing Outliers
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Visualizing Outliers

Nicely done, non-technical pieceVisualizing Outliers  by Nathan Yau in FlowingdataVisualizing data that looks like it came straight out of Statistics 101 text book...

What Comes Next After the Algorithm
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What Comes Next After the Algorithm

Nice thoughtful piece from William Vorhies.   My take, we need to get better ways to attach algorithms (the magic) to Work (the process).     He hints at it.   Simple...

Workbook Building an Internet of Things
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Workbook Building an Internet of Things

Useful thoughts ...Digital TransformationAnnouncing the First Project Workbook for IoTBy Maciej Kranz - Cisco BlogAfter publishing “Building the Internet of Things...

Wayfind: Dialog on Customer Experience
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Wayfind: Dialog on Customer Experience

Late to this but brought again to my attention:Wayfind:  Dialog on Customer ExperienceWayfinD is a quarterly e-magazine filled with insights, trends and predictions...

More on Rosmaro Automata Programming
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More on Rosmaro Automata Programming

Łukasz Makuch writes: Hello,  Thank you very much for mentioning Rosmaro When it comes to a practical application of visual automata-based programming, I find it...

Graphs and Task Planning
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Graphs and Task Planning

Technical Perspective: A Graph-Theoretic Framework Traces Task Planning  By Nicole Immorlica Communications of the ACM, Vol. 61 No. 3, Page 9810.1145/3176187Algorithmic...

IKEA and Accenture Show a Tech Advanced Store
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IKEA and Accenture Show a Tech Advanced Store

Again, IKEA looks quite advanced. IKEA asks, will virtual inventory be key to the new urban showroom?  by Matthew Stern in Retailwire.The completely unique experience...
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