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Neuromarketing and Consumer Behavior
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neuromarketing and Consumer Behavior

Had not seen this site before.  Here it is looks at a number of neuromarketing tests and associated data.  Useful thoughts, in particular about the limitations"...

Apps as Medical Devices
From The Eponymous Pickle

Apps as Medical Devices

Apps and their regulation:  Agree, this is a big deal.  " ... The potential of medical apps to improve care and lower costs is enormous. But if developers don’t...

AI Coming back.  What Will it look Like Now?
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Coming back. What Will it look Like Now?

Short piece on a number of examples how what we called AI is coming back.   Multiple and extended projects in the 90's led to real results, but not to extended...

Diamond Cartel
From The Eponymous Pickle

Diamond Cartel

Mark J Perry on the ultimate market manipulation, the diamond cartel.  Perception, however manipulated, is reality.

Metadata Lifecycle Management Considerations
From The Eponymous Pickle

Metadata Lifecycle Management Considerations

An interesting diagrammatic look at the lifecycle of metadata.  Everything has a lifecycle, but the question is always: To what degree do we have to pay close attention...

Gamification as a Mainstream Approach
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gamification as a Mainstream Approach

Short piece in CIO Insight: Makes the case that gamification is in common internal and external use. And quotes:" ... Accenture points out that gamification isn't...

Magic of Shelf Level Eye Contact
From The Eponymous Pickle

Magic of Shelf Level Eye Contact

In Supermarket News: Shelf level eye contact can make a big difference.  It was one of the first things we attempted to accurately quantify when designing shelf...

Building Loyal Customers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Building Loyal Customers

Knowledge@Wharton:  In an information age.  " .... While the digital age has changed the rules of marketing, a panel of experts at the recent Wharton Marketing...

KDNuggets for Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

KDNuggets for Analytics

Long before Big Data there was KDNuggets.  Well worth the follow.   Which is a  " ... Data Mining Community Top Resource for Analytics, Data Mining, and Data Science...

Emergence of Embed-able Tech
From The Eponymous Pickle

Emergence of Embed-able Tech

CNN Tech on the emergence of embed-able  technology.  With some good current examples. Probably not as adaptable as wearable, but more convenient.  So when do we...

Smart Home Hub with Sensors
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Home Hub with Sensors

In GigaOM:  Continuing to look for intelligent hubs, with sensors that are adaptive to multiple conditions.    Here the ALYT:   " ... If the current generation...

Neurogaming
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neurogaming

What can we learn from neurogaming?   The ultimate user interface.  Wearability taken to its limit. Trends, companies and people to be following.

Business Intelligence to Address Data Discovery
From The Eponymous Pickle

Business Intelligence to Address Data Discovery

In CWorld: Divining Data.Just a few months ago I would not have directly connected Business Intelligence (BI) with what is usually called Data Discovery.  The later...

Technical iBeacon Basics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Technical iBeacon Basics

I found it interesting to see this relatively short O'Reilly piece on the basics of the iBeacon Apple location proximity sensor for retail.  Not very technical,...

Prediction for Wearables Market
From The Eponymous Pickle

Prediction for Wearables Market

In CWorld:   And much more detail at the link.  " .... Wearable computers "took a huge step forward" in the last year and shipments of smartwatches and relatedThe...

Price of Being First in New Technology
From The Eponymous Pickle

Price of Being First in New Technology

In Cisco Blog:  Very good piece.  There is always a price, and perhaps the largest is the assumption that you will assume that you will always retain that position...

Security Cameras Creating Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Security Cameras Creating Big Data

In the 90s in Europe we worked with a large retailer for a test of this idea.  Re purposing security cameras to understand in store customer movement.   Will the...

Kroger Store of the Future
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger Store of the Future

In RIS News: " ... One of the largest retailers, Kroger, has introduced its new Retail Site Intelligence (RSI) enterprise IT architecture. The architecture helps...

Optimizing Customer Loyalty Using Bayesian Networks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Optimizing Customer Loyalty Using Bayesian Networks

In the Latest Bayesia Newsletter.   For optimization of Loyalty.  An approach I had not seen in this area before.   " ... This tutorial illustrates an innovative...

Wolfram Language for Knowledge Programming
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wolfram Language for Knowledge Programming

Wolfram Language, just examining:" .... Introducing knowledge-based programming...Designed for the new generation of programmers, the Wolfram Language has a vast...
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