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Passive Consumer Data Collection
From The Eponymous Pickle

Passive Consumer Data Collection

Why are retailers turning to passive data for consumer insights? Custom surveys are considered the most important data source for the creation of insights today...

Abundance Theory Applied to Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Abundance Theory Applied to Analytics

Abundance Theory: Had never heard it called this, and was always as a general mindset rather than a working strategy.   Analytics usually works with constraints...

Cheaper Thermal Imaging Technology
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cheaper Thermal Imaging Technology

How can the emergence of cheaper sensor technology segments change our world?   BBC looks at an example.  I had previously looked at uses of thermal cameras" .....

A Bayesian Learning Framework
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Bayesian Learning Framework

    I particularly like the premise here ... that the approach starts with causal decision descriptions of the real world.  With the potential of building fromIn...

Processes of Memory and Learning.  Machine Learning?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Processes of Memory and Learning. Machine Learning?

Several Blogs have recently picked up on the processes of learning.  Just this past week there have been a number of advances revealed on linking analytic and biomimicry...

Addressing Digital Gaps with CIO Insight
From The Eponymous Pickle

Addressing Digital Gaps with CIO Insight

Pearl Zhu on the idea of digital gaps.  Have seen every one of these gaps.  CIO's should be about insight, process and delivery rather than just 'information'....

Many R Visualization Examples
From The Eponymous Pickle

Many R Visualization Examples

In the past have always used advanced, interactive data visualization packages.   But open source analytics packages like R have considerable data viz abilities...

Quantum Computing Aimed at Faster, Better AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Computing Aimed at Faster, Better AI

Note the emphasis on Quantum Computing directed at AI.  A new direction, it was not mentioned when we explored applications, which mostly addressed combinatoric...

Cities Become Digital Laboratories.
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cities Become Digital Laboratories.

In the WSJ:  The City becomes a Digital Lab.   (May require registration)New York: —Gregory Dobler is an astrophysicist who honed his craft by recording spectral...

First Droneport under Construction
From The Eponymous Pickle

First Droneport under Construction

Regulation is still  evolving for the concept, but given that the concept requires location and technology, it makes sense.  In FastCompany:  World's first Droneport...

Open AI Emergent
From The Eponymous Pickle

Open AI Emergent

Why not?  Anything to get the ideas closer to many specific business purposes.   Following.   How can companies ally themselves for this kind of open innovation...

Watson Anaytics doing Social Media Analysis
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson Anaytics doing Social Media Analysis

" ... I was an Alpha and Beta user of Watson Analytics.  Continue to follow their application for specific industry areas.  Somewhat narrow, but impressive so far...

Samsung and Automotive Systems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Samsung and Automotive Systems

In CWorld: Samsung moves their technology into the auto industry.  This piece further looks at how other companies are in the automobile systems and sensors market...

Shopper Scientist: Herb Sorensen
From The Eponymous Pickle

Shopper Scientist: Herb Sorensen

I want to remind people of Herb Sorensen's blog: Shopper Scientist.  He visited our innovation centers a number of times.   One of the most data oriented retail...

3D Touch as a Scale
From The Eponymous Pickle

3D Touch as a Scale

Always looking for new ways to convert mobile devices into sensors.   Here is a new one, perhaps obvious.  Using the 3D touch capabilities as a scale on the 6s...

IKEA's Future Living Innovation Lab
From The Eponymous Pickle

IKEA's Future Living Innovation Lab

In their blog:  Future food and more.   Covered in the Verge." ... Space10 is a future-living lab and exhibition space in the heart of Copenhagen. Our mission is...

Open Source Software
From The Eponymous Pickle

Open Source Software

The Open Source EraAn Oxford Economics Study Commissioned by WiproOpen source is mainstream today.  Why are businesses shifting to open source software? What are...

MIT Reality Editor
From The Eponymous Pickle

MIT Reality Editor

MIT's Amazing New App Lets You Program Any Object.  The Minority Report Style App that makes programming your Smart home as easy as connecting the dots.  ...  The...

Wal-Mart Launches Walmart Pay
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Launches Walmart Pay

Payment systems can link together payment, behavioral segmentation, loyalty and mobile engagement channels.    Opportunity to link in new kinds of analytics isIn...

Caricatures
From The Eponymous Pickle

Caricatures

Nautil on Caricatures.  I remember seeing the MIT Caricature Generator at work during a visit.    I did not think it was very good, compared to human work.  But...
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