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Internet of Things Shaking up Jobs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Internet of Things Shaking up Jobs

Some interesting examples of business IOT.  My electric meter was recently turned into an IOT device." ... After the town of Cary, N.C., installed a water meter...

XTRAN for Development
From The Eponymous Pickle

XTRAN for Development

Always interested in the implementation of expertise.   Developed a number of them myself.  This has been around for some time. Just brought to my attention:  ...

Consumer Decision Journey
From The Eponymous Pickle

Consumer Decision Journey

In McKinsey.  Thoughtful piece that looks at revised a map of the journey.The new consumer decision journeyFor years, empowered consumers have held the upper hand...

Data Visualization Mistakes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Visualization Mistakes

From Tableau:  A video:  100 Years of Data Visualization – It’s Time to Stop Making the Same Mistakes ... " .  Best practices for data viz and more.  Interesting...

Cloth Simulation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cloth Simulation

From Disney Research.  For consumer generated graphics in movies.   Often it is the details that make things look realistic, and the movement of cloth on figures...

Watson to Upgrade with Deep Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson to Upgrade with Deep Learning

This is a fundamental change.  The original Jeopardy form of Watson did not use deep learning via neural networks.   It was too easy to ascribe too much to it.In...

The Ultimate Assistant: Intelligently Answering your Email
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Ultimate Assistant: Intelligently Answering your Email

In Wired:  The ultimate business application of intelligent assistants.    Could save time, promote focus, record value, link to business process.  But how well...

Smart Glasses Translate Video into Sound to Help Blind See
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Glasses Translate Video into Sound to Help Blind See

In New Scientist.  Am seeing a number of these approaches lately.  Repurposing the activity of the brain as a more general purpose sensory understanding engine....

Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining

CRISP-DM ( Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining) which we plugged into as far back as 07, seems to have disappeared, along with its web site.  Data mining...

New Science Search Engine Searches on Meaning
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Science Search Engine Searches on Meaning

We always wanted better semantic search.  Based on semantic meaning,  underlying scientific ontology,  common sense,  business driven analogy,  even goal based'Google...

Data Based Spicy Trends
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Based Spicy Trends

A trend area we examined, based on data, now blooming in full gear:" .... Restaurants and food retailers are feeding a growing demand for heat, with jalapenos,Not...

The Brain and Decision Making
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Brain and Decision Making

It is a good idea to better understand how our brain makes decisions.  To answer the question:  How can we best assist it?   What are the implications when we do...

Implications of Pervasive, Connected Computing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Implications of Pervasive, Connected Computing

I am starting a conversation tomorrow that will address this in part, as we become more connected,   will we get more efficient at work, and less at home?   Machines...

VR as the Next Social Network
From The Eponymous Pickle

VR as the Next Social Network

In CWorld: VR as social network. I mentioned this in a recent post that talked about using it to better understand social behavior.  It has been been mentioned...

Wal-Mart Using Retail Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Using Retail Analytics

No details, but a good strategy piece on applications of Wal-Mart analyticsWalmart: Harvesting Value from Big Data with Hadoop & NoSQL by Ellen Friedman " .... ...

Big Data in Recommendation Systems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data in Recommendation Systems

A good overview in KDNuggets.  Example with Amazon books. When you think of it, much of our purchase interaction online is influenced by such systems.  It is important...

Data Science Practitioner Course for the Internet of Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Science Practitioner Course for the Internet of Things

Looks to be very interesting, have not seen such a particular focus.   By a well known practitioner and author.Data Science for Internet of Things – practitioner...

Digging for Dark Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digging for Dark Data

Dark Data.  A favorite topic.  Data assets are not only your own, but those you don't even know about.   But often only useful in combination with your own data...

Building Innovation Capacity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Building Innovation Capacity

From the NSF:   Considerable detail at the link," .... The Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI:BIC) program supports academe-industry...

Seeing Through Walls
From The Eponymous Pickle

Seeing Through Walls

Via the CACM in Ars Technica.  " ... MIT uses wireless signals to identify people through wallsTech could identify intruders in your home or power motion capture...
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