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HP Splits in Two
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HP Splits in Two

Worked with them for a long time, since they ran our plant systems:Afterwards with HP Labs. " ... When HP splits in two on Sunday after a year of planning, what...

Watson Provides Health on Apple Watch
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Watson Provides Health on Apple Watch

In Fortune:  IBM's Watson makes its health care debut on the Apple Watch  by  Laura Lorenzetti" ... The app, developed by Welltok of Denver, takes advantage of...

Chatham House Rules
From The Eponymous Pickle

Chatham House Rules

This was brought to mind during planning for a meeting, I researched the background of the 'Chatham house rules', which we used at times when working with external...

Instrumenting the Human
From The Eponymous Pickle

Instrumenting the Human

A rapid convergence of human and machine work processes.  Happening now." ... When it comes to the digital workplace, the popular opinion, and fear, is that machines...

Think Tanks on Demand
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Think Tanks on Demand

Was just exposed to   Convetit:   " ... ThinkTanks On Demand  .... Custom research in days instead of months ... ... How we work ... From a single scoping discussion...

Even Wal-Mart is Thinking about Drones
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Even Wal-Mart is Thinking about Drones

Google, Amazon and Wal-Mart join FAA drone task forceGoogle, Amazon and Wal-Mart have joined the government's task force charged with figuring out a registration...

Example Use of Watson for Social Benchmarking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Example Use of Watson for Social Benchmarking

Always looking for good, simple examples of the use of cognitive methods, and thus also Watson. Just recently connected with Eric Santos, of Benchmark Intelligence...

Clorox Mapping Flu Real Time with Social
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Clorox Mapping Flu Real Time with Social

This relates to some work we did in the 90s on detecting epidemics and bioterror.  See the tag,Clorox analyzes social media to predict flu outbreaks Clorox is promoting...

Games, Visualization and the Supply Chain
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Games, Visualization and the Supply Chain

Nice idea, recall doing a similar thing with a simulation.   Any visualization can be seen as a simple game. You interact, see changes visually and repeat. A 'score'...

Quotes from a Data Science Pioneer
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Quotes from a Data Science Pioneer

There is truth in these 30 quotes.   But many are debate-able depending on context. My favorite is the very first:1.) Data science without sustainable, measurable...

IOT, a Nightmare?
From The Eponymous Pickle

IOT, a Nightmare?

This points back to needing better IOT standards and methods.   I am seeing this already as I attach a few new devices to a still relatively simple smart home"I...

Clorox Bets on Programmatic Advertising
From The Eponymous Pickle

Clorox Bets on Programmatic Advertising

Another example of automation, widely underway." ... Cleaning supply company Clorox is a big believer in programmatic online advertising, despite industry-wideThis...

Internet of Things: Why Now?
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Internet of Things: Why Now?

Why now?  Because the ability to connect universally is coming into place, and the analytics to make some useful sense of it is also.  We saw the early years of...

Cognitive Assistant for Dementia Patients
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Cognitive Assistant for Dementia Patients

Today's CSIG talk.  Slides, video, discussion and more at the link.   A focused example of an intelligent assistant.Kognit - a Cognitive Assistant for DementiaDaniel...

Social Oculus App Brings Group Interaction
From The Eponymous Pickle

Social Oculus App Brings Group Interaction

New Alpha social version of the Oculus VR:  Could this be used to test kinds of social behavior?  Social as a new form of augmentation?   Physical space and layered...

Exploring Business Models
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Exploring Business Models

In Tech Review: Good, short statement of the past and the future regarding atoms vs bits.  " ... Business Models, Information Technology, and the Company of the...

Intelligence TV
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Intelligence TV

Intelligence TV is a world‑class team of dedicated machine learning entrepreneurs, luminaries and scholars — a cogent growing force of true connoisseurs, innovative...

Teradata Listener
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Teradata Listener

Analyzing real time streams of data,  from real systems, or from simulations or prototypes or models, is useful concept.Teradata doubles down on IoT with two new...

Issues with Qualitative Data
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Issues with Qualitative Data

Via O'Reilly:   " ... 10 problems with qualitative data .... Pitfalls to avoid when you're dealing with qualitative information. ... "    Video by Farrah Bostic...

Data as Liability vs Asset
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Data as Liability vs Asset

In Adage:   " ... Why Data Can Be More of a Liability Than an Asset  ... When the Amount of Data Gets Truly Big, So Do the Problems in Managing It All   ... "....
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