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Emotional Ads more Impactful in Wealthier Nations
From The Eponymous Pickle

Emotional Ads more Impactful in Wealthier Nations

Perhaps Obvious.  But have never seen a study attempting to quantify it.  In Research Live Magazine." ... A paper published in the Journal of Advertising Research...

Gesture Sensing Armband
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gesture Sensing Armband

In Engadget:    Have been looking at applications of gestural interfaces to analytics  " ....  Muscle-sensing Myo gesture armband will be on Amazon this quarter...

Kroger Digital Strategy to Save Customers Time and Money
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger Digital Strategy to Save Customers Time and Money

More on Kroger Digital Strategy.    " ... Kroger keeps studying online shopping because 60 percent of all consumers consider trips to the grocery store their least...

Structural Data Objects
From The Eponymous Pickle

Structural Data Objects

Interesting piece.   I recall working on something like this for the construction of a competitive analysis database.    Though it was not called a structural data...

Science and Art of Segmentation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Science and Art of Segmentation

A favorite topic.  Segmentation.  Classically a large amount of analytical effort in CPG  has been put into this topic. Is it science or art?   It is, both I agree...

Patterns in Traffic Flow
From The Eponymous Pickle

Patterns in Traffic Flow

Interesting piece in the BBC on the hidden ways of traffic flows.   A favorite topic.  In paricular how groups of entities act and interact.  Here it is more about...

Semiconductor Opportunities in the Internet of Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

Semiconductor Opportunities in the Internet of Things

Very good piece from McKinsey.  Lots of opportunity here in the semicondictor industry.   " ... The data amassed from these devices can then be analyzed to optimize...

Stand Alone Loyalty Systems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Stand Alone Loyalty Systems

Can Loyalty Marketing fulfill its promise? Good examination of the topic.  Ultimately it can achieve its promise through the natural integration of its data with...

Creating Cognitive Applications with the Watson API
From The Eponymous Pickle

Creating Cognitive Applications with the Watson API

Creating Cognitive Applications Powered by IBM Watson: Getting started with the APIby Kevin Haverlock, Sridhar Sudarsan" ... Cognitive computing systems are built...

Only Data Science Skill you Need
From The Eponymous Pickle

Only Data Science Skill you Need

In Data Science Central.  A simplistic view.  But true in a sense that it is the most important skill you should have.  Being able to come to understand and solve...

Microsoft Shuts Down Silicon Valley Research Lab
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Shuts Down Silicon Valley Research Lab

(In September) Unfortunate to hear, visited a number of times.  Is it because they feel they don't need a physical place to do research, or are they breaking it...

Power of Dark Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Power of Dark Data

A favorite topic.  Though I see my definition is broader.  It is data that is not used.  Maybe that is not accessible, but even that we do not know about.   The...

Distributed Information Processing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Distributed Information Processing

A lengthy article that gives cues to how we can use biological models for computation.  Video."... Biological systems, ranging from the molecular to the cellular...

Continuous POV Cameras For Compliance
From The Eponymous Pickle

Continuous POV Cameras For Compliance

It has been called lifelogging, a means to record continuous clips of point-of-view images as you work or play.  It was suggested and tested for easily gathering...

Evolution of Wearables
From The Eponymous Pickle

Evolution of Wearables

Thad Starner, who we followed from his days at MIT, now a Prof at Ga Tech, discusses the history and evolution of wearbles.  In Computing Now.   Excellent details...

Interceptor Towers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Interceptor Towers

In Popsci: Phony cell phone towers.  This has been reported on for some time, with more details emerging.

Internet of Things and Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Internet of Things and Big Data

Is it all about data and leveraging analytics.  And an architecture to support them.In OReilly: " ... The Internet of Things (IoT) has a data problem. Well, four...

Mining Massive Databases
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mining Massive Databases

 Vincent Granville started the discussion "Mining Massive Datasets - Coursera Course (Stanford)" in the group Analytics Courses on AnalyticBridge.     Now looking...

Thinking  Moments of Truth with Google
From The Eponymous Pickle

Thinking Moments of Truth with Google

I recall that we introduced Google to the moment of truth mantra, and they popularized the zero aspect.  Just now in Thinking With Google, a collection of their...

Open Source Application of Natural Language
From The Eponymous Pickle

Open Source Application of Natural Language

Natural language, our use of communications like text and speech and documents to communicate with other people,  would be the ideal way to communicate with computers...
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