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Future of Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Future of Visualization

In Flowingdata:  A short talk on visualization.  Keeping people in the loop.  Using their visualization skills.   Well done.   Key further is the direct connection...

Personal Blogs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Personal Blogs

Despite many people running off to simpler models like Twitter and Tumblr, I still like personal blog. I can even to be said to collect them.  Here is an example...

Oceans of Data Institute
From The Eponymous Pickle

Oceans of Data Institute

Brought to my attention, the Oceans of Data Institute.   " ... The Oceans of Data Institute (ODI) is dedicated to raising a generation equipped to unlock the potential...

Large Scale Graphics Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Large Scale Graphics Visualization

Just noticed this new system.  I have been working with GePhi: An interview with Leo Meyerovich:Who is behind Graphistry?Graphistry spun out of UC Berkeley’s Parallel...

Vinimaya Visual Marketplace Discovery
From The Eponymous Pickle

Vinimaya Visual Marketplace Discovery

Mentioned last week in conjunction with delivering visual Marketplaces.  Can you understand your market visually through search?  Impressive approach. Vinimaya...

Providing App Development Services for the Enterprise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Providing App Development Services for the Enterprise

In CWorld:  Which then makes me ask the question, what is the portfolio of services that are most important?  Again, I suggest that a form of business process modeling...

Tibco Spotfire Review
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tibco Spotfire Review

We were early users of Spotfire, and ultimately it became the standard for BI and analytics on our delivered Business Sphere systems.   Was always impressed with...

Introduction: Neural Networks in Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Introduction: Neural Networks in Machine Learning

We used neural networks for some classical needs in understanding customer data.  Now they have expanded in use, via advanced hardware, to provide much 'deeper'...

Memory Implants for the Brain via  Advisory Systems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Memory Implants for the Brain via Advisory Systems

I think we are some ways from being able to do this, at least in the sense it can be connected directly to the brain. Perhaps sooner as an external interface that...

Building User Models with Twitter
From The Eponymous Pickle

Building User Models with Twitter

Have recently had to look at how user models can be built from a Twitter stream.  In particular for retail interactions.  Took a look at some of IBM's Watson influenced...

Big Data Paying Off
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data Paying Off

In Innovation Excellence: The payoff from big data.  More clearly, it is the payoff from understanding your data and they using analytics to improve your process...

A Strange New Look at Time
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Strange New Look at Time

New, more accurate clock makes us revisit the concept of time"We can measure time much better than the weight of something or an electrical current," he says, "but...

Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative

A reminder about the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative (WCAI) , who we connected with from time to time via Peter Fader.   " .... the Wharton Customer Analytics...

Google and AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google and AI

In the CACM:  Google's Eric Schmidt downplays fear over AI.  " ... He also says machine learning has the potential to help solve every problem. "I can't think of...

Tweets vs Blog Posts
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tweets vs Blog Posts

I blog first, and then write tweets (@FranzD) pointing to a select some of the blog entries.  Blogging itself is declining, because it is just easier to write little...

TAG Heuer Competes with Apple Smart Watch
From The Eponymous Pickle

TAG Heuer Competes with Apple Smart Watch

Not unexpected.  Apple will sell many watches because it is Apple.  Then  It comes down to what the user experience will be like, which is where Google can provide...

A Peek at University Watson
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Peek at University Watson

A good slideshare on what Watson is all about. From the RPI University perspective. See also the Cognitive Systems Institute for many additional university and...

Value and Risk of Data in Context.  Open Group on Risk
From The Eponymous Pickle

Value and Risk of Data in Context. Open Group on Risk

Open Group on Data Risk.  An notes on data asset/risk architecture.The broader task has been to look at both the VALUE and the RISK of data in CONTEXT Knowing that...

Thinfilm NFC Bottle Labels
From The Eponymous Pickle

Thinfilm NFC Bottle Labels

The use of RFID to replace bar codes always run into the fact that packaging form is so variable. Here is an interesting example.in RFID Journal.    " ... Printed...

Book:  Marketing Research Using R
From The Eponymous Pickle

Book: Marketing Research Using R

Had not seen a book yet that looked at marketing research problems using the analytics language R, This is written by a Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative (WCAI)...
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