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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Making Predictive Analytics Work
Predictive analytics requires a customer-obsessed innovation culturePosted by Fred Giron in Forrester. Some very good points. It starts and ends with business...
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Embedding Machine Learning in Data Visualization
Via Spotfire: From a survey of work to integrate data visualization packages with machine learning. With the intent to provide easily understood, extensible and...
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Creative Leaders
Tom Kelley, co-author of Creative Confidence (Crown Business, 2013) and a partner at IDEO, a global design and innovation firm, on what creative leaders do. ...
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Kroger and Predictive Analytics
Kroger and predictive merchandising. Kroger's Improved Analytic Capabilities Powers Merchandising Decisions ...." ... One key area where the in-house analytics...
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Wearable Technology for Services
Some innovative wearable technology examples for customer service. " .... The capabilities of wearables are just beginning to emerge for retail, enterprise,...
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Google says D-Wave Works
Recall the controversial claims of D-Wave in doing quantum computing for NASA and Google. Also, that we had a minor interaction with them regarding test problems...
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Dealing with Unstructured Data
A look at the value of unstructured data. Worth a read. Text is structured because cognitive beings created it. But has structure that is driven by a numberIn...
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Brand Destiny is Mobile
In K@W:" ... The rise of mobile is accelerating faster than ever imagined. In many places in the world it is the only option to access the web. One big result is...
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Cognitive Assistants Helping with Business Strategy
Via Jim Spohrer:How might cognitive assistants help with business strategy?" .... Dario Gil is a leading technologist and executive at IBM Research. As Director...
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Emergence of the Buy Button
In Adage: Increased use of the 'buy button'. Impulse like buying online ... " ... While Smaller Retailers Jump on New Tech, Bigger Players Take Wait-and-See...
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Statistical Significance at Play
In Insight@Kellogg. What would the frequentists say then, Kenneth? .... Blinded by Statistical Significance ... Putting too much stock in an arbitrary threshold...
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Considering AI Breakthroughs
Bloomberg on a breakthrough year in AI. Good description, though considerable value was produced during the last wave. And it remains to be seen how well this...
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An Information Cartography
In the CACM: 'Metro maps' of information and its use in narratives. Video. A means to understand use architectures? Fascinating, but I need to see it with real...
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Mining the Wikipedia for Influential World Universities
In Technology Review: Interesting way to look at existing data. An alternative approach to ranking. The subject attracts, how accurate depends on the goal of...
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Gamification Gamble and Value
Good overview ... Fundamental idea is good, but how is it best inserted into cultures and values?In Knowledge@Wharton:Would you invest in a motivational program...
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Netflix, Analytics and What You Watch
In FutureStartup: Correspondent Bill Franks chief scientist at Teradata, talks about his analytics experiences with Netflix. Further thoughts: " ... Teradata...
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Morphological Modeling
Tom Ritchey sends along an article about structural systems modeling. Technical. See previous writing about this in the tags below. As an alternative to quantitative...
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Classifying Images with TemsorFlow
From the Google research blog. A non technical post on how to use their now open source Tensorflow capability for image classification. Instructive as to capabilities...
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Silicon Angle Examines the Analytics Market
Including mention of the Cortana BI and lead management release:In Silicon Angle: With chief marketing officers expected to outstrip the technology spending of...
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