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Charging for Loyalty
From The Eponymous Pickle

Charging for Loyalty

Seems counter intuitive, but successes like Amazon Prime seem to point otherwise. What is the value tradoff?   In CustomerThink.   " ...  Let’s make one point clear...

Foxtrot Code for Focused Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Foxtrot Code for Focused Analytics

Brought late to my attention .... Seeking to build micro analytics for many problems.  A platform of and for analytics makers.  Some good thoughts.' ..... “What...

Algorithms for Solving Specific Problems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Algorithms for Solving Specific Problems

Fascinating piece, a high level cheat sheet,  that lists a large number of common process and business questions, and which machine learning algorithm families"...

AI Magazine
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Magazine

Been a while since I have looked at this, but now that AI is reemerging with a vengeance, it is back on my list.    Worth following to connect the research andAI...

Bigger,  Faster Models and Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bigger, Faster Models and Analytics

From the CACM: Exascale Computing and Big Data" ... Nearly two centuries ago, the English chemist Humphrey Davy wrote "Nothing tends so much to the advancementWikipedia...

Freight Forwarding
From The Eponymous Pickle

Freight Forwarding

Freight forwarding in the supply chain.  Opportunities exist, but standards are one issue.  Planning is another. WSJ:  " ... Companies that coordinate shippingForwarders...

Startup Bubbles
From The Eponymous Pickle

Startup Bubbles

In K@W:" ... But is there a tech start-up bubble? “Although it’s hard to call a bubble, there are many who are concerned about the level of pricing across asset...

NASA Knowledge Discovery with Graph Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

NASA Knowledge Discovery with Graph Analytics

We looked at problems similar to this a number of times.  How do you construct a semantic net based on internal knowledge, then use it to find new, innovative connections...

Risk in Modeling Check List
From The Eponymous Pickle

Risk in Modeling Check List

Good short piece on bias and Simpson's Paradox in DSC, by William Vorhies  In particular dealing with real time data.  Relatively non technical, beginners should...

Pixar and Inspirational Mathematics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pixar and Inspirational Mathematics

Hard to convince kids that mathematics is relevant?  Or anyone of any age?  Here Kahn Academy shows how math is used at at Pixar to create effective and beautiful...

Advanced Pedestrian Detection/Analysis
From The Eponymous Pickle

Advanced Pedestrian Detection/Analysis

Detecting and counting pedestrians is not new, has been done since the 90s, but advanced analysis of real time video is rapidly changing.   Called VCS, or Video...

Watson Analytics Use Case: Marketing Campaign Effectiveness
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson Analytics Use Case: Marketing Campaign Effectiveness

A well done video example of Watson Analytics use.   Since this is a place where this kind of analytics is already commonly done, good place to compare with current...

Designing Persuasive Robots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Designing Persuasive Robots

In the ACM, in abstract form.  With emphasis on persuasive.   How persuasive?   The interactions between us and our machines has progressed for some time now.  But...

Bias and Innovation Solutions in Context
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bias and Innovation Solutions in Context

Colleague and master innovator from the enterprise Pete Foley, is now writing in Innovation Excellence.  See his most recent contribution: Why I Moved to Las Vegas...

Gaming and Coaching Discussed
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gaming and Coaching Discussed

From conversation:https://www.linkedin.com/grp/post/6729452-6036912494289698817?trk=groups-post-b-titleJim Spohrer:Franz, and from some earlier threads let's not...

Humanizing Self-Checkout
From The Eponymous Pickle

Humanizing Self-Checkout

On humanizing the checkout,   " ..... What if supermarket checkout tills could talk? ... Technology has become so advanced that it's a wonder self-service checkouts...

Omni Channel Customers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Omni Channel Customers

Interesting new classification of customers. In CustomerThink," .... If you found yourself checking a new piece of clothing at a store, while looking it up on the...

Sharing Cokes as Advertising
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sharing Cokes as Advertising

Sharing Coke and user generated ads." ... Ogilvy's #shareacoke campaign for Coca-Cola has generated 250,000 tweets and almost 1 billion Twitter impressions, but...

Gamification Study
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gamification Study

An empirical study, they say.   Worth a look." ... A research paper produced for the 2014 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences carefully reviews twenty...

Our Brain's Biases, as seen by Watson
From The Eponymous Pickle

Our Brain's Biases, as seen by Watson

Have long been involved with R&D, Laboratory and Product development data and tests.  So always interested in how bias can creep into data.   Often 75% of it is...
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