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Data Mining and Advertising Targets
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Mining and Advertising Targets

How Data Mining Can Help Advertisers Hit Their Targets?Wharton's Shawndra Hill discusses her research on TV ads and online search.Podcast and text: Shawndra Hill...

Remote Repair Challenges in Orbit
From The Eponymous Pickle

Remote Repair Challenges in Orbit

In IEEE Spectrum, quite a detailed article.    Requires making satellites in standard ways and thus easier to repair.  The ultimate example of this.  Much to learn...

Turn on HTTPS
From The Eponymous Pickle

Turn on HTTPS

Turn on HTTPS encryption.   A worthwhile security step.  This blog is using it.   No negatives to its use anymore.   More at the link.It's time to turn on HTTPS...

Lowes Using AR to Show How
From The Eponymous Pickle

Lowes Using AR to Show How

Lowes is always doing interesting tech things. On the surface of it sounds like a good idea.  But does visual understanding and experience equal physical skill?...

Robots for Commercial Spaces
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots for Commercial Spaces

Good overview look at applications and demand in IEEE Spectrum. Have had conversations with several players in the space. Why Indoor Robots for Commercial Spaces...

Cognitive Assistance for the Aging
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cognitive Assistance for the Aging

Dear Professors, Students, IBMers and others, This a reminder about our Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series on Thursday, March 16, 2016 at 10:30 am ET US...

Random Numbers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Random Numbers

A long time technical interest.  Used many random number generators, and in some cases tested them to determine their limitations.  Here a brief history.

Microsoft Teams is off Running
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Teams is off Running

Seen it in Beta,  a group collaboration tool,  better than Slack, especially for users of other MS tools.    And who isn't?   Free for 365 users as I understand...

SAS On Image Recognition
From The Eponymous Pickle

SAS On Image Recognition

SAS Blog on image recognition.     Nicely done piece on the business implications." ... Image recognition is a hot and hyped topic in machine learning, artificial...

A Quantum Computer Sees Trees
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Quantum Computer Sees Trees

In Science via CACM:   Quantum Computer Learns to See Trees:" ... St. Mary's College researchers trained a quantum computer to recognize trees, a breakthrough they...

Alexa and Cortana in the Office
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa and Cortana in the Office

In the WSJ.   How elements of Alexa and Cortana may be heading towards the office.   Thinking about this now in terms of how it connects business process and deeper...

Merging Brains and Machines
From The Eponymous Pickle

Merging Brains and Machines

An odd debate.  But regardless we will have to collaborate.   We have been doing this for some time, but the the details of how this is done is getting more important...

Zipf's Law
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Zipf's Law

A favorite topic of interest: Zipf's Law.  by Vincent Granville.  Great topic for kids with an interest in numbers and patterns in data,

Sports Decision Making
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sports Decision Making

Have seen lots of examples addressing patterns of athletic data, but not specifically decision making.  Makes this interesting.  Deep learning Techniques and athletic...

Healthcare and IOT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Healthcare and IOT

From IOTCentral:  a set of useful articles for healthcare applications regarding the internet of things.

G Suite Aims at Enterprise Business Chat
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G Suite Aims at Enterprise Business Chat

More bots and enterprise oriented chat delivery.G Suite Wants To Be Your Business Meeting Chat System" ... Support for Chat Bots, Gmail Add-Ons  in CIO-Today: Meanwhile...

Bots as the Next User Interface
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bots as the Next User Interface

Good thoughts on thinking of coneversation as iterface.   Is a challenge to do it well.   In Adage:SXSW: 4 Best Practices to Make Bots the Next Big User Interface...

Google Data Studio is Now Free
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Google Data Studio is Now Free

Have not examined this directly, but worth a look.Making Google Data Studio Free for EveryoneFebruary 2, 2017Today, Google's mission to organize the world's information...

Examining Facebook Messenger Bots
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Examining Facebook Messenger Bots

Had a number of times mentioned our experiments with chatbots here.  Illuminating approaches, but too early.  In a recent conversation I was told I really needed...

Overview of Data Governance
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Overview of Data Governance

I'With a long time involvement in the big enterprise ... this was always being tested.  Later much more metadata considerations were considered.  Good overview...
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