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Storytelling with Data
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Storytelling with Data

An increasingly discussed topic.  Here a site devoted to the topic.  Is it marketing or is it the presentation of data that allows it to be best used to present...

Service Design
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Service Design

Useful description of a need for design in service process delivery.      See also Service Design." ... SCAD Service Design students proudly (or should I say, courageously...

Trading and Exchanging Data for Services
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Trading and Exchanging Data for Services

How about a Hub of All Things?" ... The HAT is a personal data platform created to do two things. First, the HAT acts as a personal data container and management...

How the Data Lake Works
From The Eponymous Pickle

How the Data Lake Works

Part of an exploration of useful linkages between data and analytics to promote easier data use and sharing.  Brought to my attention by Kirk Borne.  A PDF from...

Exploring Data Visually in Virtual Reaiity
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Exploring Data Visually in Virtual Reaiity

This has been long time thread here.  We explored the use of VR and Augmented reality to create environments for understanding complex data. The image at the right...

Cortana and Power BI, Together
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Cortana and Power BI, Together

Have not looked at this yet, but like the idea of introducing a voice and natural language interaction with business visualization.  Probably not for building anything...

Moments of Truth
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Moments of Truth

As I understand it,  the concept of commercial 'moment of truth'  was invented by my former enterprise in conjunction with consultants.    I remember hearing it...

Big Data at NASA
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Big Data at NASA

Bernard Marr at DSC looks at big data examples at NASA.  Instructive.   Some of the best examples have come from sensor rich big science examples.    Also indicates...

Market Research and Digital
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Market Research and Digital

Transforming market research with digital and social analytics With people increasingly living their lives online, an enormous amount of information about them...

Smart Mirrors
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Smart Mirrors

A long time augmented reality challenge.  Use a mirror with embedded display to interact with consumers.  In the store and at home.  We experimented with the idea...

Implanted Brain Chips
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Implanted Brain Chips

In the CACM:  A long considered possibility.   But we don't yet know how to link the wiring directly.  But can w use some of the thoughts of Eagleman to create...

Kroger will Provide e-Commerce Options
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Kroger will Provide e-Commerce Options

This makes sense.  Provide all the possible options.Kroger would answer demand for more e-commerce options, execs say Kroger would consider adding grocery delivery...

Implications of Management by Algorithm
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Implications of Management by Algorithm

I am thinking that that this will start to increase.  People are a most expensive and valuable resource.  Imagine the process, resources and constraints being integrated...

UX Design and Physical Retail
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UX Design and Physical Retail

We built full scale physical retail labs to address and test this.Will UX methodologies bolster retail's brick & mortar future?By Ken Lonyai    With the never ending...

Cisco and Ericsson Hook Up for IoT
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Cisco and Ericsson Hook Up for IoT

This looks of interest, experts in the network space. Cisco and Ericsson Hook Up for IoT Networks Cisco and Ericsson on ...  announced a partnership to build out...

What is Employee Engagement?
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What is Employee Engagement?

In the HBR.   Definitions, expectations of results?   " ... This holistic approach to understanding engagement will yield more-detailed insights into what makes...

Stockholm as a Startup Unicorn Factory
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Stockholm as a Startup Unicorn Factory

In K@W:  The examples are interesting, some surprising to me." ... What do Silicon Valley and Stockholm have in common? Spawning billion-dollar tech companies....

Become a Watson Analytics Expert
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Become a Watson Analytics Expert

Gives you a good introduction about how this all works.  Non technical.  By Francis Hall:" ... Watson Analytics is a tool that’s been designed for business users...

Data Science from Scratch
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Data Science from Scratch

Very nice intro to Data Science,  Only moderately technical.  Covers a number of the most important concepts very well.  Also instructional Python examplesDataby...

Amazon Fulfillment Robotics
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Amazon Fulfillment Robotics

On Amazon Fulfillment robotics.   Note in particular the augmentation and cooperation with.  This makes robots better unit resources.In Wired: " ... Amazon’s robots...
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