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Free 700 Page eBook on Deep Learning
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Free 700 Page eBook on Deep Learning

Via Data Science Central.An MIT Press book  by Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio and Aaron CourvilleThe Deep Learning textbook is a resource intended to help students...

IFTTT Open Platform
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IFTTT Open Platform

I was reminded of IFTTT  new Open Platform. and also now with analytics. Integrate quickly with hundreds of servicesIt’s easy to put familiar brands and new experiences...

Why Deep Work Matters
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Why Deep Work Matters

A look in the Evernote blog at how work can be done in an increasingly distracted world.  I like the term 'deep work' that they use.  How should it be measured?

Associated Twitter Feed
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Associated Twitter Feed

Posts in this blog are selectively mentioned in my twitter feed: @FranzD.  That feed also contains retweets of related material that deals with analytics, data...

Classic Analytics Compared to What is now called Data Science
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Classic Analytics Compared to What is now called Data Science

I think I mentioned this before.  Quite useful for those who have been trained and practiced in past eras.   For those people this is a must read. To me it sometimes...

Towards Machines that Improve with Experience
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Towards Machines that Improve with Experience

Consider that experience is different from learning.  It means that there is a structure that can embed learning and apply it to multiple contexts.Toward Machines...

Lowes and Innovation
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Lowes and Innovation

Robotics, virtual reality and more.  Always interesting to follow.  Why are they doing this, and how does management integrate innovation  into business process...

Open Versus Closed Innovation
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Open Versus Closed Innovation

Irving Wladawsky-Berger  on closed versus open innovation.  Very nicely described.    He Writes:Open Innovation 2.0I recently read Twelve Principles for Open Innovation...

Marketing Led Growth
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Marketing Led Growth

Article - McKinsey Quarterly - February 2017The new battleground for marketing-led growth    By David Court, Dave Elzinga, Bo Finneman, and Jesko Perrey" ... In...

Shoe Recognition less Invasive?
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Shoe Recognition less Invasive?

As opposed to facial recognition and analysis.  Taking images of shoes and deriving information from the images, without the same privacy implications.  In BBCTomorrow's...

Using Lighting for More Generalized Sensing
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Using Lighting for More Generalized Sensing

Like the idea of re-purposing systems like lighting for sensing.GE, AT&T ink smart city deal around Current's CityIQ sensorsGE plans to install Current's CityIQ...

Watson and the Supply Chain
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Watson and the Supply Chain

Frtom the recent Watson conference on related topics.  Insightful.Supply Chain Trends ReportSupply chain report highlighting top 2017 trends from the POV of IBMers...

The Progress of Marketing and AI
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The Progress of Marketing and AI

 Below,  a reasonable journalistic look at AI and marketing.   Not doubt there will be pieces of the puzzle solved by pattern matching AI, (See Predicting Campaign...

Adobe Sees Hololens in Retail
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Adobe Sees Hololens in Retail

Always looking for ways to augment experience, thus improve retail.   This experience can be that of the customer, the analyst or the designer of retail.  We used...

A Look at Google's AI Explosion
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A Look at Google's AI Explosion

 Somewhat simplified, but based on measures like papers generated, and providing capabilities publicly, very impressive.   Note that this not only about publishing...

Predicting Marketing Campaign Response
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Predicting Marketing Campaign Response

The holy grail is accurately predicting response.  Here a step by step approach using Amazon methods.   But do we know all the context involved?  Amazon has the...

IBM on the Business of IOT Technology
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IBM on the Business of IOT Technology

From the recent conference.   IBM on the business of the internet of things.  Its cognitive and complex.   I would add to the below, that its about analytics designed...

Blockchain and Utilities
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Blockchain and Utilities

Blockchain in Power industry.How Utilities Are Using Blockchain to Modernize the GridJames Basden, Michael Cottrell" .... Blockchain has grabbed the attention of...

Is Intelligence Built Up from Basic Skills?
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Is Intelligence Built Up from Basic Skills?

Which virtual assistant will ultimately win the race?   Will it be a matter of having third party vendors building the best  'intelligent skills'  to make themCWorld...

Data Issues and Analytics
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Data Issues and Analytics

Seen it now many times, sometimes to where the results would be irrelevant if we waited for perfect data.    But to me this still does not mean we should ignore...
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