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The Need for Objectivity
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Need for Objectivity

Former boss Bob Herbold on the elusive but necessary concept of of objectivity.  He always provides some excellent business examples from the management perspective...

Vision Correcting Displays
From The Eponymous Pickle

Vision Correcting Displays

In Mashable:" ... Those of us who need glasses to see a TV or laptop screen clearly could ditch the eyewear thanks to a display technology that corrects visionThe...

Cognitive Computing Webinar and Resources
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cognitive Computing Webinar and Resources

New World of Cognitive Computing. Yesterday attended a webinar on Cognitive Computing.  Which was a fairly good introduction, non technical and suitable for an Recorded...

iPhone as Future Wallet
From The Eponymous Pickle

iPhone as Future Wallet

More indications that Apple will be pushing the idea of a convenient phone-wallet in future mobile.  An idea that has been around for years. Talked to credit card...

Kinds of Regressions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kinds of Regressions

Vincent Granville maps alternate regression types and their applications.  Nicely done.  It's very useful to know alternative tools and what they are good for....

KNIME Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

KNIME Analytics

Brought to my attention, have not looked at closely, but one of a large number of packages available today.KNIME - Professional Open-Source SoftwareKNIME is a user...

Maximum Flow
From The Eponymous Pickle

Maximum Flow

In CACM:  Maximum flow algorithms in a network under under constraint are a classical application of mathematical programming.  It has many applications.  This"...

Defining Digital Shoppers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Defining Digital Shoppers

Interesting statistics in Retail Wire. " ... Ernst & Young and Havas Worldwide are just two of numerous firms attempting to classify the still-emerging digital...

Pageviews Dead?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pageviews Dead?

It is suggested in Smart Data Collective. Engagement has always been king.  Well not really engagements, but purchases.  Pageviews are easily measured, and though...

Innovation Idea Prioritization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovation Idea Prioritization

Some simple ideas to address the portfolio of innovation ideas.  In particular I don't see this done very often at startups, where it is assumed that you can just...

Digitizing Consumer Decision Journeys
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digitizing Consumer Decision Journeys

In McKinsey: It's back to understanding the decision process.   " ... Many of the executives we speak with in banking, retail, and other sectors are still struggling...

IBM and Apple Partnership and the IOT
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM and Apple Partnership and the IOT

In CWorld:  An angle that I had not considered, but the connection makes sense.  It also strengthens the connection to enterprise sources of big data.The partnership...

Taking a Deeper Dive in Splunk
From The Eponymous Pickle

Taking a Deeper Dive in Splunk

Mentioned to me some time ago, as an interesting solution, now taking a deeper dive. See Splunk.com  ... Will follow with some impressions.  See the elevator control...

Millennials and Food Shopping
From The Eponymous Pickle

Millennials and Food Shopping

In Smartblogs.   How will they be won over? " ... Millennials are much like the young versions of previous generations, except they grew up in a digital age and...

Importance of Emotional Machines
From The Eponymous Pickle

Importance of Emotional Machines

Facebook AI director Yann LeCun on the importance of emotional machines   " ... “Emotions are often the result of predicting a likely outcome. For example, fear...

Network as Nervous System
From The Eponymous Pickle

Network as Nervous System

A reasonable analogy for digital enterprise.    And Analytics should be the brain, placing the network n contexts to gather as much useful data as possible.  ...

Evaluating the Concept of Web Rank
From The Eponymous Pickle

Evaluating the Concept of Web Rank

Simple game based demonstration video about how search and in particular how web sites can be evaluated via their interconnections with hyperlinks.  Good to show...

July August Analytics Magazine
From The Eponymous Pickle

July August Analytics Magazine

July August 2014 Analytics MagazineWhy Do Analytics Projects Fail? by Haluk Demirkan and Bulent DalNot just another IT project: Key considerations for deep analytics...

Dysfunctional Teams and Healthy Ecosystems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dysfunctional Teams and Healthy Ecosystems

In FastCompany: An interesting view.   Somewhat over segmented.  Have seen some of these examples.   It then suggests healthier ecosystems.  Good idea, but also...

Augmented Collaboration: Cisco Spring Roll
From The Eponymous Pickle

Augmented Collaboration: Cisco Spring Roll

Some of this discovered rather late, but Cisco provides new a prototype of collaboration features for its Telepresence brand.  Called Spring Roll.  Eweek discusses...
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