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GePhi Updates to version 0.9
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GePhi Updates to version 0.9

I see that the Gephi Graph Analytics system has been updated to version 0.9  ... Creeping ever so slowly up to version 1.0   Used it for several structural analyses...

Machine Learning Marketing Trends
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Machine Learning Marketing Trends

Christoper S. Penn talks machine learning and marketing.  The technical future of marketing?" ... In this multi-part series, we’ll look at upcoming trends in marketing...

Robotic Vacuum Adds Security Functions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robotic Vacuum Adds Security Functions

In Engadget:  Was waiting for some of these kinds of obvious multitasking capabilities.    Only way we will see their more general home use.

First Web Site is 25 Years Old
From The Eponymous Pickle

First Web Site is 25 Years Old

In Endgadget:  I remember first seeing the concept being used by folks in research.  I had used the Internet in the form of the Darpanet years before.  The idea...

Personalizing Maps
From The Eponymous Pickle

Personalizing Maps

In the CACM:For individuals, or for commercial entities. Abstract:" ... Geographic maps constitute a ubiquitous medium through which we understand, construct, and...

Loyalty Rewards Discounts Work better Online
From The Eponymous Pickle

Loyalty Rewards Discounts Work better Online

More studies on loyalty in retail.  Also good comments.  Read the article details." ... With consumers typically not needing the incentive of a coupon to return...

The Internet of Things and AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Internet of Things and AI

In the CACM:  A look at how AI should connect with the Internet of things.   " .... Oblong Industries CEO John Underkoffler does not believe a connection between...

Wal-Mart Trip Type Classification
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Trip Type Classification

From DSG:  Nice example of how data science can be used for a real world classification problem, with real data.  Including 1.2 million observations with 6 features...

China Customer Data Opens Potential
From The Eponymous Pickle

China Customer Data Opens Potential

Remember looking for just this kind of detail data just a few years ago to model the Chinese Consumer in more detail. Quite a potential here.  This is big enough...

Smarter Toys as Virtual Assistants
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smarter Toys as Virtual Assistants

A kind of extension to the virtual assistant idea.   Toys that can engage, inform, aid, teach.  It is already here with advisors like Cortana, Alexa and Siri on...

Big Data as a Trillion Dollar Asset
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data as a Trillion Dollar Asset

A favorite topic.  It is not only about the data, but how the data can be combined with other data in given contexts.   It need not be 'big' in any sense, but valuable...

Glucose Tracking Device
From The Eponymous Pickle

Glucose Tracking Device

An example of new health sensor development by Google and Dexcom.  Disposable device to track glucose levels. 

Stanford Winter Crowd Research Program
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Stanford Winter Crowd Research Program

Via ACM.  Register until the end of December.Stanford Crowd Research Winter ProgramAre you a designer, hacker, engineer, aspiring researcher? - come join the Stanford...

Half of Psych Studies Cannot be Reproduced
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Half of Psych Studies Cannot be Reproduced

So what does reproduce ability mean?    Look first at the kinds of bias involved.In the Verge: " A surprising number of psychology studies can’t be reproduced ....

Future of Virtual Customer Experience
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Future of Virtual Customer Experience

According to research by Gartner, 89 percent of executives are betting on customer experience as their primary mode of competition before the end of 2016.However...

Cognitive Legal Aide
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Cognitive Legal Aide

Another example of cognitive assistance:" ... Boaz Carmelli gave an excellent presentation today on "Argumentor" as part of our Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker...

Apple Pay Goes to China
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Apple Pay Goes to China

In CWorld:  " ... Apple partners with UnionPay to bring Apple Pay to China   ....  "China is an extremely important market for Apple and with China UnionPay and...

An Architecture of Data Science
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An Architecture of Data Science

Nicely done piece by Vincent Granville, about the 'architectural' considerations of data science.  In roughly the order you should progress, but understanding you...

Innovation Management
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Innovation Management

Thoughts on the management of innovation.  Not enough about the promotion of creativity.   Measurement is emphasized, which is good.

Customers are Talking, Companies are Listening
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Customers are Talking, Companies are Listening

This as news surprises me.  Our company always listened.  In fact pioneered methods for listening and analyzing what we heard.   Hardest part is then, linking that...
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