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Network Economics of Cybercrime and Data Assets
From The Eponymous Pickle

Network Economics of Cybercrime and Data Assets

In Analytics Magazine:  This connects with some of my recent work looking at data asset and risk value.  Technical details at the link, reviewing. " ... A new...

Google Advnces in Facial Recognition
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Advnces in Facial Recognition

In Forbes:   " .. Google: Our new system for recognizing faces is the best one ever ... Last week, a trio of Google  ...  researchers published a paper on a new...

Challenge of Cognitive Assistants for Knowledge Workers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Challenge of Cognitive Assistants for Knowledge Workers

Just attended a talk by Hamid R Motahari Nezhad of IBM Almaden, on Cognitive Work Assistants. His slides here.  As part of the Cognitive Systems Institute series...

Smart Machines Now Seen at Work
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Machines Now Seen at Work

Good look at how machines replace people at work.   Similar concerns were written about in the late 80s.   Clearly AI will change how we work,  the systems are'...

Shopper Anonymity not Possible
From The Eponymous Pickle

Shopper Anonymity not Possible

In Retailwire:  Good piece on how little information it takes to reveal an account.     " ... A new study led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

What Went Wrong with Glass?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What Went Wrong with Glass?

Thoughts from a former Google exec.  Will Microsoft's HoloLens learn from this experience?  I still want a workable means to do augmented reality.   I have seen...

Rebooting the Retail Beacon for Experience
From The Eponymous Pickle

Rebooting the Retail Beacon for Experience

In Retailwire: A look at beacons and their purpose. from SXSW.  Certainly you don't want them to assault you,  or erode your privacy.  Now how can they serve you...

GSMA Telecom MarketPlace
From The Eponymous Pickle

GSMA Telecom MarketPlace

Brought to my attention by Vinimaya, a long time provider of online marketplaces for efficient procurement. Now they are announcing a new service that effectively...

Behavioral Analysis and Motivation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Behavioral Analysis and Motivation

I was reminded of the work of Professor BJ Fogg at Stanford, which we used in a number of projects His site describing his work on human behavioral Analysis and...

Classification Example Using Deep learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Classification Example Using Deep learning

Want to understand the use of artificial neural networks for analytics?" ... The National Data Science Bowl, a data science competition where the goal was to classify...

Looking for Hard to Find Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Looking for Hard to Find Data

Classic problem.  You have internal data to support an analytic decision.  But you don't have the data required to support the results of the analysis to maximize...

P&G Builds New Beauty Innovation Center
From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G Builds New Beauty Innovation Center

A continuation of the construction of specialized and global innovation centers that started in 2000.  See this innovation center link for many more examples. "...

Data Visualization Playbook
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Visualization Playbook

Revisiting the basics.   Nicely done.   I add, always consider visualization as a form of analytics, and the one that should always be used first.  Your eye is...

Intel's Curie Wearable Component
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intel's Curie Wearable Component

The Curie Wearable.  It won't be a fashion statement.    But an  interesting component for future IOT applications.   Most interesting, its very small size and"...

Sammy Haroon in The BusinessMakers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sammy Haroon in The BusinessMakers

My longtime colleague at Procter & Gamble is featured on an interview in The BusinessMakers. He gives P&G good credit in molding him.   Nicely done Sammy!   He"...

Watson, the VA and PTSD
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson, the VA and PTSD

An interesting example for Watson, in Mashable: "  ... IBM and the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced they'll be using IBM's Watson to develop a clinical...

Big Data and AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data and AI

It makes sense to connect the two more strongly.The tech industry is placing new bets on artificial intelligence, using massive data sets and powerful computers...

Graph Analytics to Understand Bigger Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Graph Analytics to Understand Bigger Data

A way to visually and systematically examine how your Big Data is interconnected.    Here recently in Infoworld,   We used this for a number of projects in the"...

Amazon Echo  and the IOT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Echo and the IOT

This also made me think of the Amazon Echo effort. With possible applications in store and in enterprise.  Possibly doing a better job of integrating the two as...

Taskwatch takes Wearables to Focus Workflow
From The Eponymous Pickle

Taskwatch takes Wearables to Focus Workflow

Local firm Hipaax works with Samsung Wearables.  Love to see wearable ideas that link to enterprise applications.   This links people to focus on work process.We...
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