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Programmatic Buying and Creativity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Programmatic Buying and Creativity

Does programmatic buying decrease creativity?  This was brought up in a number of analytic realms very early on, because they tended to use only a single measure...

Pinker on Writing in the 21st Century
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pinker on Writing in the 21st Century

Favorite writer Steven Pinker on Brain and Language writes in the Edge. And Video." ... What are the arts but products of the human mind which resonate with our...

Statistics and Big Data Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

Statistics and Big Data Science

A Statisticians View on Big Data and Data Science ...  Good thoughts in a slide share via colleague.  " by Diego Kuonen, CEO, PhD in Statistics, CStat PStat CSci...

Gesture App to Produce Spoken Language
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gesture App to Produce Spoken Language

Turing sign language into spoken language in real time.  In Mashable.  Under development: " ... The app — called Google Gesture — is paired with a band worn on...

Internet of Behaviors
From The Eponymous Pickle

Internet of Behaviors

Was pointed out to me.  Admit I wince when think of all the 'Internet of X' alternatives we may have to expect.    Still it is an interesting way, for now, to express...

Building Knowledge Graphs for Assistants
From The Eponymous Pickle

Building Knowledge Graphs for Assistants

The MindMeld API:  With an interesting mission.  Leading to more intelligent voice?  " .... Social physics is a big data science that models how networks of people...

Hawking and AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hawking and AI

In CNet News: Not sure its that funny, but the caution is understood. Eventually we will need to deal wit this, but it may be some time away. " ... In a hilarious...

Mobile Apps for Professional Development
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mobile Apps for Professional Development

Good overview of continued professional education using mobile Apps.  A nice idea.  In particular this talks about a nursing education series.

Business Innovation Technology Lunch
From The Eponymous Pickle

Business Innovation Technology Lunch

Thanks to all who attended my business process innovation lunch today.  I enjoyed it and learned much myself.  Stay connected with me to continue the process.  Always...

Building Anticipatory Supply Chains
From The Eponymous Pickle

Building Anticipatory Supply Chains

In Industry Week:

House Key as Tool and Technology
From The Eponymous Pickle

House Key as Tool and Technology

In the NYT:  The simple house key, how little it has changed, and a look at the number of recent technological attempts to replace it.  I like stories about how...

Building an All-Star Team
From The Eponymous Pickle

Building an All-Star Team

In the HBR:  by Michael C. Mankins  Though our typical view of being 'all star', is often skewed by many existing operational agendas , which is why this is hard...

BigDataLens
From The Eponymous Pickle

BigDataLens

Also recently brought to my attention, Big Data Lens,  examining. " ... Custom Big Data Algorithms and Predictive Analytics .... "" .... Bringing together human...

Natural Language Conversations
From The Eponymous Pickle

Natural Language Conversations

Some believe this problem has been completely solved.  Not so, a fascinating piece addressing the challenges.  In Computing Now.  In particular for the domain of...

Cojoin Analytics Startup
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cojoin Analytics Startup

New colleague Thomas Ciszek points me to Cojoin.com:  In Beta, you can request access. " ... We are a team of agency, web and science data veterans who grew frustrated...

Replacing Power Plants with Batteries
From The Eponymous Pickle

Replacing Power Plants with Batteries

In IEEE Spectrum: Mostly as a demand leveling device,  not unlike methods still used, pumping water into uphill reservoirs to store energy.   Some of the statistics...

Intel Very Interested in Wearables
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intel Very Interested in Wearables

Intel, apparently drawn by the opportunity of many more chip bearing devices, is closely examining the Wearable computing market.  Here an overview their interests...

Big Metadata
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Metadata

Via Robin Bloor.   I will note here that the term metadata has multiple functional definitions,  but this still has some useful thoughts.Does Big Data Mean Big  ...

Sparseness of Linguistic Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sparseness of Linguistic Big Data

Interesting comment that we can confirm, but it's not unlike many events, statistically rare events are often problematic.  In Language Log:    At first I disagreed...

Careers in Statistics Evolve and Expand
From The Eponymous Pickle

Careers in Statistics Evolve and Expand

In Science Magazine:" ... Workers with statistics backgrounds have long been in healthy demand for academic, actuarial, pharmaceutical, or government jobs. Those...
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