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Looking at Target's Future Lab
From The Eponymous Pickle

Looking at Target's Future Lab

Continue to be a student of spaces devoted to innovation.  See my tag links below for years of looking into the space, including a decade plus of my work in CPG...

Companies Promoting their Master Brand
From The Eponymous Pickle

Companies Promoting their Master Brand

Reminds me of discussions occurring in big marketing driven enterprises.  How does this ultimately successfully drive loyalty that can create company wide engagement...

Wozniak Plauds the Echo and Voice
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wozniak Plauds the Echo and Voice

In the Business Insider: Apple founder Steve Wozniak loves the Amazon Echo, a smart speaker that users can talk to.In an interview with CNBC that aired Friday,...

Truth in Film Visualized
From The Eponymous Pickle

Truth in Film Visualized

In InformationisBeautiful: An interesting view of film truth versus fiction, visualized in a time line.   I took a look at the Turing biopic example 'The Imitation...

Wireless Earpods
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wireless Earpods

When I think of wearables I do not normally think of earpods, but here is a piece that claims knowledge of IOS and future iPhones possibly including new kinds of...

Automating Proof
From The Eponymous Pickle

Automating Proof

In the first wave of AI considerable attention was paid to the concept of 'automating proofs'.  With the idea that we could take rules about expertise,  and then...

Principle Components of Data Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

Principle Components of Data Science

Using my favorite machine learning tool, Principle components analysis (PCA) on the tools of data analysis themselves. Dimension reduction.  Instructive exercise...

Coke Freestyle Machine as IOT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Coke Freestyle Machine as IOT

We were early examiners of late stage differentiation in the Coke Freestyle machine.  Now its common to see,  Thought of it as a way to understand how consumers...

Microsoft Pushes New Data Vis Tool SandDance
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Pushes New Data Vis Tool SandDance

Recent corporate experience made me marvel about the strong competition among data visualization tools.   Different parts of  large corporations even recommending...

Knowledge About AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Knowledge About AI

In Gizmodo.  Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong ...  Thoughtful piece. Well not maybe wrong, but debatable.   Do get ready for some surprises...

Next Inflection in Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Next Inflection in Big Data

In O'Reilly: Data analytics over the past 25 yearsAs the volume of data has grown over the past 25 years, data comprehension for decision-making has consisted of...

Apple,  Intel and Realsense
From The Eponymous Pickle

Apple, Intel and Realsense

Some time ago I looked at the use of Intel's Realsense.  But had not heard anything from that direction for a long time.  The potential application used interactive...

Baidu Big Data Lab
From The Eponymous Pickle

Baidu Big Data Lab

Big Data Lab (BDL)." .... BDL is led by Dr. Tong Zhang. BDL focuses on large-scale machine learning algorithms and applications in areas such as predictive analytics...

Baidu Understanding Crowds
From The Eponymous Pickle

Baidu Understanding Crowds

In the CACM:   An approach that has been used to design retail environments." ... Baidu's Big Data Lab has devised an algorithm that can predict crowd formation...

Hololens Ted Talk
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hololens Ted Talk

Good Ted talk introduction to the expectations for the Hololens virtual reality capability soon to be delivered by  Microsoft.

Controversial Data Science Articles
From The Eponymous Pickle

Controversial Data Science Articles

In DSC:  Nicely done, I like the controversy stoked here.  The field is full of argument,  which I believe is healthy ... it leads you to the creative.

Wi-Next and Advanced Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wi-Next and Advanced Analytics

I recently attended a webinar from Wi-Next.  This is a natural next step.  Process control is an area we first experimented with rule based AI systemsIBM will bring...

Towards Intelligent Crowdsourcing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Towards Intelligent Crowdsourcing

Always thought there would be value in intelligently directing a crowdsourcing effort. Our own experiments showed it was difficult to manage.    The below appears...

Data Sonification
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Sonification

Using sound to detect patterns in data.  Never got this idea to work in practice, but others have. Under certain circumstances our ears can discern patterns better...

Google Building Amazon Echo Rival?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Building Amazon Echo Rival?

Been involved in examination of the voice channel in the enterprise and smart home for some time now.   The Amazon Echo has received much attention, but is Google...
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