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Neurosynaptic Chips
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Neurosynaptic Chips

Just announced in IBM Research:  " ... What is a cognitive chip? The latest SyNAPSE chip, introduced on August 7, 2014, has the potential to transform mobilityThe...

Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative
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Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative

Their latest newsletter.  Subscribe.  I follow them and write about their work from time to time, always something interesting to see.    Most recently resultsPurchase...

Google Testing Mobile App Tracking
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Google Testing Mobile App Tracking

In Adage:  Testing a method for App tracking on mobile browsers. " ... Google has come up with a way to overcome the ad-targeting gap between mobile web visitors...

Analytics Training at University of Cincinnati
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Analytics Training at University of Cincinnati

The University of Cincinnati Center for Business Analytics is pleased to announce its fall continuing education offerings. These two-day courses will be offered...

Vint Cerf on the Internet
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Vint Cerf on the Internet

Always interesting Internet pioneer, Vint Cerf, who we used as a consultant in the enterprise, talks about the current state and future of the Intenet.  In the...

Text Analytics for Everyone
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Text Analytics for Everyone

In UXMag: Our own early experience with text analytics was that it can be readily done with today's software, but coming to specific conclusions can be more difficult...

Techsolve's Miniviz
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Techsolve's Miniviz

Local company Techsolve's software Miniviz helps companies understand if their machine tools are operating efficiently.   Enables small and medium sized companies...

Byron Sharp on Behavioral Economics
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Byron Sharp on Behavioral Economics

Excellent piece with lots of useful cautions .  Including a good criticism of neuromarketing.  See also correspondent Byron Sharp's excellent book: How Brands Grow...

Amazon's 3D Printing Store
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon's 3D Printing Store

Just took a look.  This points to the broader commercializing of 3D Printing.  Shop the Future?  The offerings still look fairly trivial, but this gives you an...

China's Digital Transformation
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China's Digital Transformation

Good McKinsey piece, with some interesting statistics::China’s digital transformationWith more than 600 million users, China is already the world’s largest Internet...

Walmart.com Re-designs
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Walmart.com Re-designs

In Retailwire: Making a move to look and work more like Amazon.   " ... Walmart.com saw its (online) sales rise 27 percent last quarter following a 30 percent increase...

A Game to Map the Brain: Eyewire
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A Game to Map the Brain: Eyewire

One of a number of crowdsourcing games out there in cosmology,  genetics and beyond.  Several have been around for many years.  I like the idea, but have thereEyeWire...

Emoticons and Neuroscience
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Emoticons and Neuroscience

Do emoticons have a neuroscience?  How are they different than the use of text?  I thought I had noticed that there were fewer of them out in the wild these days...

The Store as the Next Killer App
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Store as the Next Killer App

Discovered WayFind: A conversation about the customer experience:  Here talking about the use of the use of the retail store as the next killer App.  " ... “Buy...

Taking an Opportunity View
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Taking an Opportunity View

In the HBR, may require registration: " ... The innovative ideas that led to the companies Nest and Square started when their founders sought to improve everyday...

Living Our Life in Stories
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Living Our Life in Stories

In The Edge:  Stories as problem resolution narratives.  " ... We think of stories as a wildly creative art form but within that creativity and that diversity there...

Coursera Consumer Neuromarketing Course
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Coursera Consumer Neuromarketing Course

Via the Copenhagen Business School, no background required.   Worked with the CBS in the past in this context.An Introduction to Consumer Neuroscience & Neuromarketing...

Value of Un-Siloed Data is Exponential
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Value of Un-Siloed Data is Exponential

In Adage: CEO  of AOL Platforms makes some interesting comments on Innovation and the value of data.  Like inertia stifles innovation ....  (Well yes)  And on data...

Silent Risk
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Silent Risk

A colleague writes:" ... For those interested in the mathematical beauty of highly unlikely but very impactful events : a draft version (for comments) of Silent...

Windows 8
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Windows 8

I have been using Windows 8 for some time, have gotten used to its oddities, but based on that experience and what I have heard from more casual users, it is aThe...
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