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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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Analytics for CPG
From Accenture. An interesting overview report with quite a bit of detail. Pointing to a recent study. No specific companies are mentioned, but I do know some...
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Drone with Oculus Support
IEEE Spectrum reports on a natural progression, the interaction of physical devices, like drones, and Augmented reality interfaces, like the Oculus Rift. display...
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Management Best Practices at GE
Have always been impressed in my occasional collaboration. Includes some interesting examples. " .... A fundamental challenge of any firm – especially a huge ...
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Understanding Faces and Consumer Behavior
Understanding consumer behavior by building on facial recognition software. Work that came out of MIT where we saw it being used to trap and classify emotional...
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Smart Home Appliances from LG
An area we examined for years. How could smart appliances be integrated into the home? And what are the implications for the large CPG company? A short look...
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Smart Look at Hadoop and Big Data
Good piece by Tina Groves. I have discovered that many technologists, especially in the small to medium sized businesses, do not understand the value Hadoop or...
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Big Data and Social Physics Course
Of interest, can be audited free." ... Social physics is a big data science that models how networks of people behave and uses these network models to create actionable...
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Shopping Image Recognition by Amazon: Flow
Have spent some time on the process of shopping using in-aisle using scanning methods. Finally got a chance to look at this method more closely using an IOS installed...
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Guy Kawasaki on the Art of Innovation
Guy Kawasaki on Innovation' ... “Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship … the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth....
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Press Explaining News with Technology: Vox
How much should the press explain the news rather than just present it? A colleague pointed out Vox to me. Positioned as a closer melding of technology and....
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Is the Data Analytics Field Consolidating?
First I heard of this. Not sure I agree. In GigaOM" ... The big data and analytics world is entering that consolidation phase right now. Buyers can’t eliminate...
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Simple Data Visualization for Retail
Recall I mentioned this effort here before. Now a reminder from the HBR:' ... “Retailers are all using scanner data to track what happened at the point of sale...
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Historical Look at Netscape
Our labs were early users of the Mosaic browser to communicate with University research. We watched the work of Jim Clark out of SGI with Marc Andreessen. We...
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Synthetic Biology Conference
In the NYT: A topic we linked with the Santa Fe Institute on. Also with MIT prof Neil Gershenfeld, who is quoted in the article. " Neil Gershenfeld, ...the...
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Correlation does not mean Causation
A group of amusing slides that make the case. Probably best as examples for the non scientist managers you work with. But you would be surprised how much effort...
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Basic Tools for Data Viz
From Vincent Granville in Data Science Central: 30 Basic Tools for data visualization. Software and other resources. No reason anyone should not be able to deal...
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Shopping by Scanning Images
In MarketWatch: We experimented with approaches that used watermarks embedded in packaging. Includes a short video demo to show it in operation" .... You can...
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Visualizing Data from High Performance Computing
Simulation creates a great deal of data, so it naturally links well with visualization Every industrial simulation we wrote for the enterprise was linked to a...
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Big Data and Food and Beverage Retail
A Podcast of interest. " .... Nearly every company wants to acquire more customers and keep them longer. Yet in some ways, that’s more challenging now than ever...
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