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Random Freebies Creating Loyalty
From The Eponymous Pickle

Random Freebies Creating Loyalty

In Retailwire: This is a classic psych finding, that random rewards can produce a kind of loyalty. Though mostly found in experiments with pigeons.  This was an...

Unilever CMO Leads Effort on Future of Marketing Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Unilever CMO Leads Effort on Future of Marketing Analytics

In Adage:    Good direction.  The future of marketing and analytics is a rich one.Unilever CMO Leads Effort to Map Future of Marketing Research and Analytics .....

Easier to use Drones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Easier to use Drones

Continued advances in interfaces may yet crowd the skies with unintended consequences.   " ... The Roomba's Inventor Launches What Might Be The Easiest-To-Use Drone...

Professional Proofreading
From The Eponymous Pickle

Professional Proofreading

Copyblogger Blog podcast on professional proofreading.  May require Itunes to listen to.   Introduction to a tacit skill.

Interim Big Data Wiring of Smart Cities with Sensors
From The Eponymous Pickle

Interim Big Data Wiring of Smart Cities with Sensors

Big Data and the IOT make smart Cities.  by Bernard Marr.    I add:  Not everything is plugged into an IOT today, and the complete wiring of cities may take some...

Windows as a Service Strategy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Windows as a Service Strategy

In CW. This will create a considerable change." ... Microsoft executives last week further fleshed out the firm's "Windows as a service" strategy, an effort to...

Ideo Redesigns Monday
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ideo Redesigns Monday

I never thought Monday was awful, but the design ideas are good in general.  Culturally we believe the thought and why not create a marketing idea that builds on...

Does Retail Need POS?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Does Retail Need POS?

In Retailwire:   Why do retail stores still have cash registers?   Provocative view.  " .... Retail store survival will depend upon providing an experience that...

Ring Wifi DoorBell Tool
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ring Wifi DoorBell Tool

Ring.   Experimented with this idea in the smart home.    In particular how it could augment home delivery.  Now this works because smartphone Apps and pervasive...

MS Power BI Tools
From The Eponymous Pickle

MS Power BI Tools

In GeekWire:Acumatica launches content pack for Microsoft’s Power BI data visualization toolSAN FRANCISCO–Microsoft executives showed off a new set of tools from...

84.51 to Spur Kroger Growth with Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

84.51 to Spur Kroger Growth with Analytics

In the local news, detailed look at Kroger acquisition to change the face of retailing" ... Big data consumer insights has been a major ingredient of Kroger's "Customer...

Personalized Digitized Coupon App
From The Eponymous Pickle

Personalized Digitized Coupon App

Winn-Dixie,  never a player in advanced retail tech, is going to an App that personalizes promotions, includes code scanning.

Amazon Web Services for Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Web Services for Analytics

Have started to examine using Amazon Web Service Marketplace for analytics delivery.    An example of services avalable is SAS University Edition, by itself a very...

Examining SAS University Edition
From The Eponymous Pickle

Examining SAS University Edition

I see that the SAS University Edition, which includes a complete set of their  analytics services, is available to anyone on the cloud.  As a Virtual Machine.  Non...

HoloLens Expectation Management
From The Eponymous Pickle

HoloLens Expectation Management

Continue to get new analyses about MS HoloLens.  Now from FastCompany. Good example images and videos of use. Mixed expectations indeed. This is an augmented reality...

Stylish BMW AR Goggles for in Car
From The Eponymous Pickle

Stylish BMW AR Goggles for in Car

In Engadget: Augmented Reality designed for driving a specific car?  Still a BMW concept design with no delivery time suggested.  I do wonder about its distraction...

Virtual Career Counselor
From The Eponymous Pickle

Virtual Career Counselor

Jim Spohrer writes that  John Horan (ASU) is working on a virtual career counselor (VCC) powered by O*NET occupation data.  Much more on him and that work.   Recall...

Deep Learning Solves Cocktail Party Problem
From The Eponymous Pickle

Deep Learning Solves Cocktail Party Problem

In Technology Review: A classic sensor problem, an example of extracting signal from noise, or one voice from a number of other voices in a noisy environment.  We...

A Fast Data Challenge
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Fast Data Challenge

From the ACM, viewed yesterday, technical, note its application to the IOT, which will produce lots of fast data.  This all gets fast, and thus interesting above...

Tesla Home Battery Systems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tesla Home Battery Systems

Tesla Battery Systems.  Announced yesterday. We looked at the basic idea here for enterprise commercial manufacturing applications.  Buy cheaper power and store...
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