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Structured Problem Solving
From The Eponymous Pickle

Structured Problem Solving

And taking it beyond to business process models?    Not commonly done well enough to define the structure.In Sloan Review: Saving Money Through Structured Problem...

Drawing for Everyone
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Drawing for Everyone

This is always something I wanted, something that turned me into a graphic artist.   A Clever AI experiment by Google:Fast Drawing for EveryoneDan Motzenbecker,...

Infographics and Data Science Visual Resources
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Infographics and Data Science Visual Resources

DSC does its usually good job of pulling together lots of interesting visual resources.    " ... They come in various shapes: infographics, cheat sheets, periodic...

Electronic License Plates for Drones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Electronic License Plates for Drones

In IEEE SpectrumElectronic License Plates for DronesIn late 2015, mandatory drone registration went into effect in the United States. Since then, anyone who wants...

CPG Companies and Data Assets
From The Eponymous Pickle

CPG Companies and Data Assets

Good to see this push, complex and deep data assets point towards the need for better analytics.  The idea of data as an asset has been much mentioned here, and...

More Assistant Competitors to Alexa
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Assistant Competitors to Alexa

Rumors out about assistant oriented competitors to Amazon Echo.  The latest being a collaboration between Harman-Kardon and Microsoft.  In Neowin: " .. .Harman ...

Saving Shopping Malls by Tracking?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Saving Shopping Malls by Tracking?

We looked to this kind of tracking for better personalization,  but not much has happened in the last decade.Will customer tracking help save shopping malls?  by...

Captioning Images with Tensorflow
From The Eponymous Pickle

Captioning Images with Tensorflow

 Below, Nicely done and instructive piece on captioning using neural methods.   Captioning as a means of multi tagging of images.  Now this we could have used when...

Data Science Encyclopedia
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Data Science Encyclopedia

Data Science Central continues to publish a free online data science and machine learning encyclopedia.  Now with over 4000 entries.  Worth a look.   Also, they...

Addressing Brand Trust
From The Eponymous Pickle

Addressing Brand Trust

In Chiefmarketer:  Increasing examples of eroding brand trust, good ideas about addressing the problem:How to use Influencers to Improve Erording brand trustPosted...

Location Based Shopping Insights
From The Eponymous Pickle

Location Based Shopping Insights

Via Insights with Google, intriguing and detailed graphs of US shopping behavior and trends.Weekly Thought-Starter: From product trends to city-level insights,Find...

Customized Digital Boosting
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Customized Digital Boosting

Assistants are rising,  but we have not yet figured out full how to usefully collaborate with themHow Digital Media Will Bring Out Our Best Selves in the Workplace...

Digital Assistants Acting as Phones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Assistants Acting as Phones

I note that in the IFTTT applets there are now ways to have the Amazon Echo dial phone numbers.  See for example this applet, that causes the Echo to dial specific...

AI In Medicine
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI In Medicine

Medicine has long been seen as a fruitful area of application for AI, because of its complexity, reliance on extensive and frequently changing data sources,  deep...

Hololens in the Classroom
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hololens in the Classroom

With my first closeup view of the Hololens this week I was struck by the educational opportunity, and further how educational progress, and gaming could be integrated...

Disney Aiming at Soft Body Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Disney Aiming at Soft Body Robotics

Starting with audio animatronics, which we saw in the 60s, Disney has always been into interactive realism.  What is the value of the very realistic android?  Now...

Knowledge Graph of the Business World
From The Eponymous Pickle

Knowledge Graph of the Business World

We tried this with just an enterprise, and discovered it was quite hard.  What is the appropriate level of detail?  And how is it changing?  The gaps can make your...

Intelligence and Analytics Case Studies
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Intelligence and Analytics Case Studies

A nice set of broad examples that are insightful.5 Business Intelligence & Analytics Case Studies Across IndustryLast updated on April 4, 2017 by Daniel Faggella...

Helpdesk Concierge Experience
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Helpdesk Concierge Experience

I remember using the word 'Concierge' when developing our own experiences.  It helps you think about multiple, focused experiences the way a concierge does.  Helpful...

Adaptive Machine Learning
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Adaptive Machine Learning

Good points in DSC article below on adaptive machine learning.    I often make the case that you should often consider if your modeling should be modeled adaptively...
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