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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Data and Fashion
In O'Reilly: " .... What the data world can learn from the fashion industry? ... How generating conversations can become one of the most important data assets...
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Skills of a Data Scientist
What are the required, or even very useful skills of a data scientist? From the always interesting Data Science Central. Here a recent aggregation and pointer...
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Virtual Reality and Empathy
Can a set of goggles make you nicer? In the BBC: At the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab. Quite a long look at experiments with the idea of altering behavior...
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Unlocking Big Data with AI
AI as the key to unlocking big data. " ... Big data and how best to utilise it has become a perennial subject, and the endless debates around it rarely come to...
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Lauren Polo Tech Shirt
From Ralph Lauren: A shirt full of biometric sensors. Activity tracking woven in. More in Wired.
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Hyperlayer for Computer Vision
Just brought to my attention. I noticed because of the applications to human behavior analysis in retail. And seeing that Herb Sorensen is an adviser. They include...
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Tracking Epidemics
App sources and access to Big data about Ebola and other communicable diseases, data visualization examples.
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Your Spying Apps
I remember thinking, long ago, why are there so many flashlight apps? Are these App writers just showing off? That is what I thought, but it seems the simpler...
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Gartner's View of 2025 Automation and CIOs
In CWorld: One in three jobs will be taken by software or robots by 2025. Provocative, hard to say, but close I would say. Also includes an interesting view...
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L'Oreal Uses Games for Recruitment
In Gamification: Have not seen games for recruitment lately. Are there any other examples out there? I remember this being done before, but more as a contest...
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Big Data Education for CMOs
This could be of value to many parts of the executive suite. Have asked for an outline of the areas of coverage and approaches. How much will this provide beyond...
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Kroger Invests Beyond Grocery
In Barrons: Summarizes a number of data oriented plays. " ... No. 2 food retailer Kroger is trying to break out of mass retail by investing in everything from...
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Visualizing Practical Performance Measurement
Stephen Few points to an upcoming book: ... Practical Performance Measurement by Stacey Barr. Plan to read this. I like the idea that he is working with her. This...
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Walgreens Social and Mobile Analytics
Another example of a retail company using business intelligence with 'Big Data', seeking to get social and mobile understanding of customers. " ... "We are moving...
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11th UC Business Intelligence Symposium this Week
Business Intelligence Symposium registration closing soonThe 11th Business Intelligence Symposium is coming next week on Thursday October 9 to the Lindner College...
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Fake Tongues and Taste in Virtual Reality
An article in the New Yorker looks at an extension of the 'Bubber Hand Illusion", which realisticaly fools the brain into thinking that a fake hand is their own...
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Robotic Fabrics for Active Clothing
Out of Purdue University, new developments. Robotics need not be standalone, they can combine with us in surprising ways.Robotic fabric could bring 'active clothing...
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Personalized Bananas
In Adweek: At first I thought this was an example of 3D printing, but apparently not. " ... Dole Printed Some Very Special Bananas for 200 Runners of the Tokyo...
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Making Sense of Big Data with Visualization
I have said it often, visualization, a form of descriptive analytics, should be the first method used to understand any kind of data. Especially large scale and...
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