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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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Gamification and Enterprise Engagement
Nicely done CW Piece: " ... Can gamification solve enterprises' engagement problem? Big data and other new technologies are fueling the use of gaming principles...
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John Cleese has a Message for Geeks
Hardly a supporter of social media, but humorist John Cleese makes the case that the social is much harder than the technological. Video.
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Google Mobile Search Update
From a number of sources. That Google is measuring mobile friendliness for sites and is using and acting on that as one measure for measuring search relevance....
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Leading Indicators of Innovation
Good general thoughts, but no precise metrics. Bottom line, results in your domain. " ... Metrics, indicators, best practices, success stories – everyone is looking...
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McKinsey Quarterly on Golden Age of Marketing and Analytics
McKinsey Quarterly 2015 Number 1: Overview and full issueThis issue of the Quarterly, available here as a PDF download, describes the dawn of marketing’s next golden...
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Google Ads to Watch You
In Wired:GOOGLE IS ABOUT to make ads on television work just like ads on the web. Through Google, advertisers will know how many times their ads were viewed. They...
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Chartjunk Tufte Extract
If you have yet to see it, over the years have picked up several copies of the book, have seen Edward Tufte present it a few times, always something new stands...
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Linkurious: New Tool for Graph Data Visualization
An interesting new tool I had not heard of, it competes with tools like Gephi (Open source, free) and Polinode, which I have used. Have not had experience with...
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Book: Open Source Operation Research (OR) Tools
New book:Operations Research using Open-Source Tools, Hardcover – April 8, 2015by Jeffrey StricklandThey write: ...Operations Research using open-source tools...
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Disrupting Markets with Data
Using Big Data technology to disrupt markets. " ... Big data has made a dramatic impact on companies all over America, but running big data programs is only one...
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What is Operations Research?
Nicely done overview of OR, my formal training and thirty plus years of experience. Closely connected to Analytics, with the inclusion of the decisions needed....
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Peak Work Performance
Former P&G and Microsoft executive Bob Herbold on How to Achieve Peak Work Performance. In his insightful blog." ... A couple of years ago a management research...
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New System Modeler Capabilities: Reliability
Wolfram's new SystemModeler version brings new capabilities, examining. I like the mention of 'cyber-physical' systems. Most anything these days can be considered...
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Coke Consumer Clusters
Coca-Cola rewiring marketing around ‘consumer clusters’ to make sales pop The drinks maker’s chief executive Muhtar Kent let slip the strategic shift today (22 ...
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Convergence of Retail and Mobile
In Think with Google:In this month's Creative Shortlist, John Boiler, founder of 72andSunny, spotlights digital campaigns from brands such as Target and TopmanTalk...
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Lack of Broadband Limits Telemedicine
In CWorld: A lack of broadband service is limiting the deployment of telemedicine services in some places of the U.S., and not just remote rural areas, some experts...
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More Automated Analytics
In CW: The idea has long been considered, now many vendors are emerging. Here more add ons to Excel.
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On Timing and Decision Making
Its not only the decision, its about its timing. Brought to mind how decisions and their timing are linked with data. Data that is available, that which is forecast...
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MindMeld and Documents
Voice Drive content discovery from MindMeld. " .... You can index documents by crawling a website or by using our API -- and we’ve just open-sourced a new way...
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