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On Complex Network Analysis
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On Complex Network Analysis

Nicely done overview.  And its not only about Python applications, includes an intro look at accessible and free systems like Gephi.   Many network analysis concepts...

On Marketing Mix
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On Marketing Mix

In Data Science Central.  Good detailed view of marketing mix, by Vincent Granville.  All the basics.  Surprisingly non analytical, mostly a look at all the concepts...

Description of Amazon's Alexa Lab
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Description of Amazon's Alexa Lab

Inside the Lab Where Amazon's Alex Takes over the WorldBy David Pierce in Wired.WHEN IT FIRST launched in 2014, Amazon's Alexa voice assistant was little more than...

Bain Davos Video: Delivering Value to Customers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bain Davos Video: Delivering Value to Customers

Davos 2018: Bain Breakfast  Video and transcriptJanuary 24, 2018 Bain video By Orit Gadiesh, Eric Almquist, Jørgen Vig Knudstorp and Maurice LévyOrit Gadiesh, chairman...

Voicera's Eva for Meetings
From The Eponymous Pickle

Voicera's Eva for Meetings

Just reviewing this capability:  Voicera   Have tried it once, will follow with more.See also:  https://www.voicera.com/how-it-works/" ... Make Meetings Actionable...

Images Floating in the Air
From The Eponymous Pickle

Images Floating in the Air

Seems to compete with augmented reality scenarios I have seen.  Do we need a headset?     Advertising and more.  Not a Hologram, which powered the examples of this...

Cpg Leader on Voice and E-Commerce
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cpg Leader on Voice and E-Commerce

Well known manufacturer looking at the marketing future:Clorox CMO: Voice and e-commerce will grow faster than marketers expectIn a Q&A with Marketing Dive, Eric...

No Exceptions
From The Eponymous Pickle

No Exceptions

Nicely done piece by William Vorhies of DSC.  Worth always keeping in mind.  He also provides a favorite quote from James Thurber.   I like it.   Good detail at...

Amazon Fresh and Fresh Grocery Business
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Fresh and Fresh Grocery Business

Amazon is dropping major hints it's ready to dominate the fresh grocery business   By Dennis Green in BusinessInsiderThe head of Amazon's Prime Now division isAmazon...

Crowd Sourcing via Algorithm
From The Eponymous Pickle

Crowd Sourcing via Algorithm

We actively used Mechanical Turk, so the comparison is interesting, but depends much on the details of the set up involved.Mechanical Turkers may have out-predicted...

Dynamic Networks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dynamic Networks

Not overly technical but thoughtful piece. I like any article that aims to deal with differing contexts over time, rately considered well in analysis.  Even inElements...

Harvard's Millidelta Robotics
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Harvard's Millidelta Robotics

Ultimately the very small may be more important than robots at human scale ...Harvard's milliDelta Robot Is Tiny and Scary Fast    By Evan AckermanHarvard's milliDelta...

On the Risks of Trusting Sensors
From The Eponymous Pickle

On the Risks of Trusting Sensors

Technical piece on the risks beyond the software in the IOTInside Risks:  Risks of Trusting the Physics of SensorsProtecting the Internet of Things with embedded...

Thinking Machines
From The Eponymous Pickle

Thinking Machines

Like the broadening of what we sometimes call AI.  I like the idea of 'Cognitive' because it promises less.  Would also like to add other classifiers, say 'Process...

Showrooms Replacing Closing Stores
From The Eponymous Pickle

Showrooms Replacing Closing Stores

Replacing closing stores with Showroom stores ... ?  Implications for manufacturers?   Ability to do selectively more demonstration of more complex products, or...

Algorithmia: Best Practices For Algorithm Design
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Algorithmia: Best Practices For Algorithm Design

Have not looked at Algorithmia for a while. It is branded as a marketplace for algorithms. Nice idea, don't know how well it is doing. They now have a good blog...

Humans Gaming the System
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Humans Gaming the System

Sometimes you need to include outlier training.   But is that an opening for gaming?   Ultimately we will also have to model multiple kinds of human intent as well...

Solving Nlp Problems
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Solving Nlp Problems

Nicely done, mostly non-technical piece on natural language processing (NLP).  Why it is important and how to plan and execute NLP problems.   Text is our language...

Virtualitics For 3d Data Sharing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Virtualitics For 3d Data Sharing

Took another look at Virtualitics.  The idea is one we experimented with for years and this is a commercial example.  This is a kind of  Virtual Visualization,Key...

Open Source Leadership
From The Eponymous Pickle

Open Source Leadership

The Emperor Has No Clothes: Recasting Leadership in the Open-source EraRajeev Peshawaria discusses his new book: Open Source Leadership: Reinventing ManagementThe...
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