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Exploring the Uncanny Valley of Bots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Exploring the Uncanny Valley of Bots

Have long been a student and practitioner of engineering how people react to intelligent machines. And here we mean by a depth beyond just posing and answering'uncanny...

Most Practical Big Data Uses
From The Eponymous Pickle

Most Practical Big Data Uses

Bernard Marr pushes his book 'Big Data in Practice: How 45 Successful Companies Used Big Data Analytics to Deliver Extraordinary Results'  in Forbes.   With real...

Improved Analytics through Crowdsourcing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Improved Analytics through Crowdsourcing

In Sloan Review.      Requires registration." ... Syngenta developed an award-winning suite of analytics tools by tapping into expertise outside the organization...

Practical Predictive Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Practical Predictive Analytics

Good non technical piece that takes you on a journey of useful thoughts.    Interesting infographics and statistics as well.

You Always Need more Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

You Always Need more Data

All the Data and Still Not Enough!Claudia Perlich discusses tricks to the art of predictive modeling in situations where the right data is scarce.  Video by Claudia...

Every Windows 10 PC can have Hololens
From The Eponymous Pickle

Every Windows 10 PC can have Hololens

Now calling it 'mixed reality', makes some sense, distinguishing the terms augmented versus virtual reality has sometimes been difficult, but trying to push another...

Mood Science and the Internet of Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mood Science and the Internet of Things

Anyone who works with advertising and marketing ideas wants to measure and influence aspects of mood in  a number of context.   Much has been made of neuromarketing...

Product Association Rules Using R
From The Eponymous Pickle

Product Association Rules Using R

Nice DSC article by Gregory Choi  that relates directly to retail purchasing. How do I mine for associations in purchasing based on past buying data?  Could be...

Lineages of Creativity in Research
From The Eponymous Pickle

Lineages of Creativity in Research

Nature article looks at the 'Phd-Family' trees of scientists and in particularly mathematicians.  I don't find it too surprising that there are a small number of...

Juno Skims Close for More Atmosphere Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Juno Skims Close for More Atmosphere Data

Today the Juno probe skims close to Jupiter.  With an aim to get a much better understanding of its atmosphere.  Not the topic of this blog, but my earliest analytics...

Programmed for Procrastination?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Programmed for Procrastination?

We are programmed to delay work.   So what do we do?  See also the tag below on the topic, I have mentioned a number of other good pieces  on this topicHow to Hack...

Following the Euro
From The Eponymous Pickle

Following the Euro

Long have been a follower of the EU and Euro and the implications of the union.  Especially how the regulatory structure influences innovation.  Newly published...

Beacon System for Push Notification
From The Eponymous Pickle

Beacon System for Push Notification

A very simple idea, a small device that can generate an alert for a push notification based on context and location. .  Note this is unrelated in function to the...

Hacking the Turing Test
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hacking the Turing Test

The Turing test is a measure of 'intelligence'  which came out of the AI era, has a number of flaws.  In the CACM: " ... The test currently can't determine if a...

Triggers of Behavior
From The Eponymous Pickle

Triggers of Behavior

BJ Fogg worked with us in a number of projects in the enterprise.Why behavior matters more than thought leadershipTriggering habit-forming behavior Stanford University...

Google Analytics 360 Suite
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Analytics 360 Suite

Screens and more screens, mobile and stationary.    How does this change the decision space?Marketing analytics for a multi-screen world.Say hi to the Google Analytics...

New and Improved Wolfram Alpha
From The Eponymous Pickle

New and Improved Wolfram Alpha

Another of the general virtual assistants.  It has been a while since I have checked it out, but was impressed then.  I have yet to see this applied in a real situation...

Talk on Understanding Cognitive Systems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Talk on Understanding Cognitive Systems

Our presenter this week was Jim Spohrer from IBM. who will presented  "Understanding Cognitive Systems.".   Worth taking a look at.   Slides here.  .... Presentation...

Emotion Analysis API
From The Eponymous Pickle

Emotion Analysis API

More companies are looking at text analysis ....AlchemyLanguage Emotion Analysis API is Generally Available, and It’s Getting BetterMany in the field of Cognitive...

Power BI Now Does Twitter Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Power BI Now Does Twitter Analytics

Been looking at the analysis of twitter streams lately, new from MS Power BI.  A campaign management solution template.Microsoft Power BI Bloga
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