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Agent Modeling and Health Care Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Agent Modeling and Health Care Data

This reports on work done with Argonne National Labs, known for their work with agent based simulation models or ABMs.   We used similar models with Argonne for...

Modeling Complex Decisions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Modeling Complex Decisions

Recently had to review the use of rules to model business decisions.  Exploring the integration of these methods with Cognitive systems.  Integrating these rules...

Computationally Modeling Emotion
From The Eponymous Pickle

Computationally Modeling Emotion

Video on:  Computationally Modeling Human Emotion.  Professor Stacy Marsella at USC discusses "Computationally Modeling Human Emotion" a Contributed Article incacm...

Mobile Eye-Tracking in Retail
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mobile Eye-Tracking in Retail

Here for cereal packaging.   Good example of the current use of behavioral tracking in aisle.  Some interesting statistics for CPG products.  Data for these kinds...

Smart Interaction to 'Fit' Products
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Interaction to 'Fit' Products

In Retailwire: Same work covered in another recent post.  Another piece on smart fitting rooms to engage with consumers.  Has also often been used for virtual makeover...

Facebook and Multi Device Shopping Habits
From The Eponymous Pickle

Facebook and Multi Device Shopping Habits

Another are we addressed in some detail.  Shopping is increasingly multi channel and multidevice.  It has to be considered in all these dimensions.  " ... Facebook...

Digital Retailers and Security
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Retailers and Security

Some useful points about how digital retailers are addressing security.  Its not all about the network." ... According to a study released this month by privacy...

Big CPG Takes Advertising Claims to Court
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big CPG Takes Advertising Claims to Court

In Adage:   Fascinating direction about what claims can be made in advertising.    Nestle, P&G and Unilever are examples.  " ... The world's three biggest packaged...

UMass Report on Use of Social Media by Fortune 500
From The Eponymous Pickle

UMass Report on Use of Social Media by Fortune 500

Today attended the yearly presentation of UMass Dartmouth  Prof Nora Barnes, commissioned by SNCR, where I was a fellow for years.  Lots of fascinating numbersSee...

Design Principles in Business
From The Eponymous Pickle

Design Principles in Business

In Radar O'Reilly:  An interview.  Our enterprise added design as a key function." ... Design principles are being applied in all aspects of business today — they...

Open Source Home Automation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Open Source Home Automation

In FastCoLabs:  A look at a number of smart home enabling projects.  Not to say that these will in the typical home, but love the inventiveness being demonstrated...

Gamification at Dutch Bank
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gamification at Dutch Bank

Have spent some time looking at enterprise applications of gamification, like having executives compete in finding solutions to particularly wicked problems.  Here...

Data too Difficult to Obtain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data too Difficult to Obtain

In BaselineMag: Marketers and unified data and improved tech tools.  Yes, they have always wanted that.  Also ways to have that data connected to specific tasks...

Senior Sensors
From The Eponymous Pickle

Senior Sensors

The need seems to be generating lots of solutions. Eldercare was pioneered by the Japanese, due to an aging population, we saw a number of examples at Fujitsu labs...

Retail Game Design from IKEA.
From The Eponymous Pickle

Retail Game Design from IKEA.

In ReadWrite Web:   When I saw the mention I immediately thought.  A retail maze as game.   But it is also probably the main reason I have at times avoided going...

Risk for Sustainable Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Risk for Sustainable Innovation

In Innovation Excellence:" ... Of the ten imperatives to Roberts Rules of Innovation, “No Risk… No Innovation” is arguably one of the most important. There are...

Microservices for an Enterprise
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Microservices for an Enterprise

Had not thought about the concept, but InfoQ takes a critical look.  Admit I needed a definition, which is embedded.    A technical consideration of design, which...

Simple Open Source Data Visualization
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Simple Open Source Data Visualization

In GigaOM:   Overview of a simple data visualization tool called Charted, with limited options that might be handy to visualize data from a URL.   I have been analyzing...

A Data Journalism Handbook
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Data Journalism Handbook

Have not yet looked at this, so cannot measure this free online source.  But I have seen some very bad data visualization recently in USA Today being syndicated...

Dawn of the Smart, Connected Home
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dawn of the Smart, Connected Home

The Smart Home was an early development area for our innovation centers.  So we we followed what it meant to be connected, and the implications for commerce and...
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