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The Aloft Butler Brings you a Toothbrush
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Aloft Butler Brings you a Toothbrush

Finally a closer look at the hospitality robotic butler at the Aloft in Cupertino.  I remember when there was a version of the Aloft in Second Life that I 'stayed'...

Wireless Bio-sensors and Eye Tracking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wireless Bio-sensors and Eye Tracking

Have seen this demonstrated in-store before ....  another example.   Particularly useful in understanding in-store applications that look at products in shelf context...

Hear Every Voice in the Room
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hear Every Voice in the Room

An IBM exec's key to innovation is the free flow of informationIT leaders often must navigate a range of personalities as they guide teams and advance projects,...

Python as Language, for Beginners
From The Eponymous Pickle

Python as Language, for Beginners

In the CACM:   A look at Python, a computer language now often used for analytics, and increasingly taught in schools.   For a techno piece, quite thoughtful.  Have...

Machine Learning Advice From Practice
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machine Learning Advice From Practice

Via O'Reilly, a nice set of Machine Learning practice observations (not really hard rules).  These are mostly technical, for data analytics practitioners.  Some...

Innovation Using Restless Dissatisfaction
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovation Using Restless Dissatisfaction

I like the statement, you should always be dissatisfied.  And looking for solutions, or parts of solutions,  that can be fitted together to lead to better results...

High vs Low Level Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

High vs Low Level Analytics

Some comments of interest by Vincent Granville: " ... Here I describe a case study: a solution based on high-level data science. By high level, I mean data science...

Tableau 9 Beta Rolling Out, with Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tableau 9 Beta Rolling Out, with Analytics

Have been a long time user of Tableau visualization, brought it into the enterprise.  I see they are about to roll out their latest Beta 9.0.  To address some frequent...

Getting Control of the Digital Shelf
From The Eponymous Pickle

Getting Control of the Digital Shelf

Straightforward steps to audit the presence of brands online.  By Schawk. " ... To get your share of a rapidly expanding e-commerce market, you need to provideThis...

On Technological Evolution
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Technological Evolution

By Marcus Olsson (Nokia/Microsoft, Helsinki Finland)  Recording.Last week I gave a speech at Hannes Sjöblad’s “Singularity Evenings” at SUP46 (Startup People Stockholm)...

New SAP Analytic Tools
From The Eponymous Pickle

New SAP Analytic Tools

Had not looked at SAP BI and analytics for some time, we were a well worn SAP shop, they now have new offerings worth a look.SAP brings new analytics tools to companies...

Complete Guide to Twitter Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Complete Guide to Twitter Analytics

Instructive piece.   Was just asked to look at the analytics of twitter as an engagement, and thus an advertising medium.   Is it too ephemeral to be useful?  52...

Curating Personalization through E-commerce
From The Eponymous Pickle

Curating Personalization through E-commerce

An interesting approach I had not considered. In Progressive Grocer.How grocers can customize and curate through e-commerce E-commerce is a good place for grocers...

GigaOM is Gone
From The Eponymous Pickle

GigaOM is Gone

I see that the tech innovation blog GigaOM  has shut down for lack of funds.  Too, bad, they were often quoted here.  Had excellent content.  But hard to monetize...

Synchronicity and Decision Making
From The Eponymous Pickle

Synchronicity and Decision Making

Synchronicity by Hassine Saidane   Which I had not heard described before.  A technical and academic view, but intriguing." ... In a previous article I argued that...

Apple Watch And ResearchKit
From The Eponymous Pickle

Apple Watch And ResearchKit

RetailWire on the Apple Watch.   I watched part of the announcement.  I am not particularly interested in a watch that replaces or even augments some of the functionality...

Fridge Caught Sending Spam
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Fridge Caught Sending Spam

From CNetFridge caught sending spam emails in botnet attack ... In the first documented attack of its kind, the Internet of Things has been used as part of an attack...

Kroger Successful with  Private Labels
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger Successful with Private Labels

Branding private label at Kroger has been very successful,   What are the dimensional characteristics of such a label to make it most powerful?  The data must exist...

Apple ResearchKit
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Apple ResearchKit

Watched Apple's announcement of Researchkit today, and the inclusion of a number of diagnostic and research supporting Apps.  To be made available Open Source....

Five Data Visualizations in R
From The Eponymous Pickle

Five Data Visualizations in R

It is instructive, especially for those with professional coding experience, to see a complete example of code in another language that does something that is clearly...
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