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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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Connectedness and the Smartphone
In GigaOM: Other ways to connect are appearing. But the functionality of the smartphone remains distinctly powerful and convenient. Until we redefine their...
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Weekly Data Science Resources
Data Science Central puts together a nice list of related papers. Descriptions and links here. Well worth following, including technical and non technical contributions...
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Consumer Human Interactions
A report from the recent CHI conference. On playful interactions with things like bubbles. I think game dynamics should have more playful interactions, when...
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Sankey Diagrams
I was reminded again yesterday of the Sankey Diagram. Their use has been influenced by examples in Edward Tufte's graphic design books. The link points to a blog...
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History of Photretouching
The extent to which we can trust a given image has changed much. This piece examines the history of the process. Suggesting that most photos today are fiction....
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Computational and Cognitive Creativity
An interesting article about the use of systems like Watson to add creative dimensions to what were in the past purely computational problems. We made this observation...
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Expect Labs Mindmeld
Taking another look at Expectlabs. And their Mindmeld work. " ... We are undergoing a profound transformation in how we interact with our devices. Today, users...
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On Data Science and Big Data in Pharma
New colleague Diego Kuonen, PhD in Statistics - CStat PStat CSci - CEO, CAO at Statoo Consulting, gives a presentation: " .... May 13, 2014, at the `SMi Bighttp...
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AppInventor and Teaching Logic
On teaching programming, and using it as a method to teach logic in general. Judy Robertson in the CACM.
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New Blog at Computer Now: Business Intelligence
Looks to be well done.MajorBI-All Things Business Intelligence:Is Your Company Ready to Deploy Business Intelligence Intelligently?" ... Although the majority of...
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A Look at an Analytics Solutions Cloud Marketplace
The medium size business always needs help with choices. They need easy to make choices that are as inexpensive as possible, and link directly to their current...
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Using Bayesian Methods to Find the Malaysian Airplane
Via the SAS Blog. Good example of predictive analytics with a not generally well known technique for Big Data practitioners. Set in a real world tactical problem...
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Tesco CEO on E-Commerce
Been looking at how retailers address e-commerce futures. Here a piece by the Tesco CEO on e-commerce. Not too unexpected." ... Tesco group chief executive Philip...
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Machine Learning in Excel
Slide show on a number of techniques, including add-ons to Excel for machine learning. Not much detail, but informative about software I had not seen as yet.
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Rise of the All Data Enterprise
It has arrived, but many companies are discovering that putting all this data together is harder than you think. Not all is captured, or structured, or even fully...
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ExperienceOne Customer Engagement Solution
Just brought to my attention:IBM just released ExperienceOne - an analytics and automation-based customer engagement solution that ties together marketing, sales...
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Morphological Approaches to Engineering Design
A long time correspondent, Tom Ritchey, sends a note about an analytical approach that is little used in enterprise, but should be much better known. Using the...
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Automatic Design: Learning from a Network
The connection between automated configuration and design. Here Cisco is talking about a technical network thing. I am not so much interested in how networks...
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Tesco Plans a Smartphone
Retail giant Tesco plans to introduce an Android smartphone this year. In Retailwire. Most interesting part: " ... Tesco's smartphone, and the Hudl, will include...
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