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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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Statistics Obsolete in a Big Data World?
Interesting thoughts. I say that you will still need the statistics to back up the results that you come up with. Especially if there is even a hint of a compliance...
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Look at IOT Security
An overview of the dangers and direction of privacy on the Internet of Things.
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People Analytics
Looking at what people analytics cannot capture. In the HBR, " ... the latest fad in human resources, using big data analytics and personality test scores to...
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Pushing Humanoid Robotics
Why do robots have to be humanoid? Look somewhat like humans. Androids, they are also called. To make us more comfortable with their planned presence among us?...
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Future of Shopping at SF Lab
Always interested in innovation center ideas. Here a look at at the Westfield Malls experimental startups labs. See also my extensive writing on innovation centers...
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Let the Patients Search
This was brought up in a conversation with a doctor. Of course it requires caution, but it does by itself create more engagement. It is also inevitable. If...
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Ask the Right Questions for Data Value
Often the key thing to do. Its the kernel of many kinds of expertise. Know the questions, in rough order of importance. Know where to invest your time in answering...
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Exploratory Analysis with Excel
As the piece says, still common in even very sophisticated organizations. Data and metadata is often stored and, edited, monitored and analyzed in Excel.
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Cisco Grand Challenge in IOT
CISCO INNOVATION GRAND CHALLENGE Calling all IoT Trailblazers!$250,000 in awards to jumpstart your venture!The ChallengeAre you building an industry-disruptingWith...
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Watson Tone Analyzer
In CW: Helping you write. Or at least helping with the tone of the writing. Not the syntax or semantics. Tone is one kind of meta semantic. Nice idea, some...
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Collaborative Thinking with Computers
All use of computing is collaborative. With the computer. It is advisory, learning, question and answer, rule following, cognitive, predictive and prescriptive...
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A Look at Amazon Prime Day
A look at the success of Amazon Prime Day. Good statistics and thoughts. Amazon says it was very successful. Evan Schuman points to the usual scuttlebut on...
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Building Your Cognitive Technology
Tom Davenport on building cognitive technologies." ... Most organizations that are exploring cognitive technologies—smart machines that automate aspects of decision...
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How Often Should Prices be Changed Online?
HBR article on the frequency of price changes. " ... Today’s technologies allow digital businesses (as well as a growing roster of traditional companies) to change...
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Spam Decreasing
At a twelve year low as we learn to detect it better, but Malware continues to rise and is harder to detect.
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Principal Component Analysis
What is Multivariate Analysis? Part II: Principal Component Analysis | bicorner.com by Jeffrey Strickland.Part of a well done series on multivariate analysis....
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Emojis Creating Data
New kind of data to mine. This was brought up in internal work. Leverge what the consumer provides.There's Data in Those Emojis -- and Marketers Want to Mine...
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Unilever and Click Fraud
In Mediapost: " ... It's one thing for researchers and journalists to band around click-fraud statistics, and quite another for Unilever's CMO to come out with...
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Gamification, Jobs and Cognition
I gave a talk today to IBM's CSI Group, on "Gamification and Cognitive Systems; Opportunities for Enhancing and Defining Jobs" ... Slides and recording linked...
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