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Proximus Retail Analysis
From The Eponymous Pickle

Proximus Retail Analysis

Brought to my attention:  Proximus.  Acquire. Analyse. Improve.Real-time insightsOur unique technology tracks every single customer in-store to an accuracy of 1...

The Patient Will see You Now
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Patient Will see You Now

In MIT Sloan:Digital technology empowers patients to set their own course of care." .... Digital technology is empowering patients to participate in developing...

Support Vector Machines
From The Eponymous Pickle

Support Vector Machines

On support vector machines. Often for classification.   An overview. Somewhat technical." ... Support Vector Machines are perhaps one of the most popular and talked...

Human Perception and Data Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Human Perception and Data Visualization

A look at what we know about the topic.  In Medium.  Research and art.  Nice outline of what we think we know and where to find out more ..." ... There is visualization...

More Revealed on Virtual Assistant Viv
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Revealed on Virtual Assistant Viv

Viv, from Siri's creators, is the virtual assistant of your dreamsIt's one step closer to giving us the AI from "Her."Siri made the world aware of the potential...

Challenging Metrics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Challenging Metrics

Challenging  metrics, usually a good thing to do, even in a thought experiment.  In Adage: Why Google's 'Time Spent' Metric May Not Be the Best MeasureMarketers...

Robot Teaching Assistants
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robot Teaching Assistants

Reminiscent of the legendary Eliza system.  .... Expectations are being driven higher .... See this mornings WSJ,  may require  registration. Imagine Discovering...

Bots and Spam
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bots and Spam

Very interesting historical and technical view of Spam.   First the history and then the look at how the technical model of a markov chain is involved. Great way...

Smarter Bathrooms on the Supply Chain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smarter Bathrooms on the Supply Chain

A look at making consumer demand points made more intelligent.  An intelligent endpoint in the supply chain.   Here work by IBM and Kimberbly Clark.  In Readwrite...

Shapes Constraint Language
From The Eponymous Pickle

Shapes Constraint Language

Brought to my attention.  Technical.  Note the mention of data quality use, using the concept of 'shape',  a recent concern." .... The Shapes Constraint Language...

COGs Ladder
From The Eponymous Pickle

COGs Ladder

Procter & Gamble colleague George O Charrier recently passed away.  He developed a collaboration model called the COGs ladder.   In use by a number of groups today...

Linked Data in the Enterprise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Linked Data in the Enterprise

I am reminded of the term,  definition from the WP below:    What are the best examples of its use in the enterprise?   The DBPedia is an easily understandable"...

Toward a Layer of Common Sense
From The Eponymous Pickle

Toward a Layer of Common Sense

Admittedly dated, but been reexamining the 'common sense' ontology Cyc again recently, this article reexamines the premise and progress. Circa 2005. I recall thinking...

Seeking:  Building AI that Builds AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Seeking: Building AI that Builds AI

Building AI is hard work,  have been working on it for years.  Even if we are attempting to just improve relatively common cognitive business tasks.  Forgetting...

Disrupting Manufacturing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Disrupting Manufacturing

In Brookings:Disrupting manufacturing: Innovation and the future of skilled labor  by Daniel Araya and Christopher Sulavik" ... The common assumption today is that...

Big Data University
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data University

Brought to my attention by Jim Spohrer, a community that pulls together a number of introductory segments on data engineering (broadly defined to include analytical...

Seeing, Sensing and Reproducing Color
From The Eponymous Pickle

Seeing, Sensing and Reproducing Color

In the New Yorker:   The Search for Our Missing Colors, By Amos Zeeberg.  You would think that in our digital world we could sense, see and reproduce most any color...

Is RFID Ready for Prime Time in Retail?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Is RFID Ready for Prime Time in Retail?

Perhaps piggybacking on the IOT craze?  Our original prediction from the innovation center proved to be very wrong.  The particular lack of progress was fed byAre...

VR Revolutionizing Data Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

VR Revolutionizing Data Visualization

We experimented in this in a number of ways, virtual words and using 3D viewers ...  Visualization should also be part of the first few steps in any analytics project...

Designing Materials
From The Eponymous Pickle

Designing Materials

In Nature:  A look at how machine learning can be used for material design.  Visually realized.   So why not for any other kind of parameter, or structure driven...
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