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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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First CPG Brand Using In-Store Beacon from InMarket
After I mentioned iBeacon, I was sent a link to an example of a CPG in store use, appears to be the first major CPG brand doing this beyond test. InMarket's...
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Practical Operational Details on iBeacon: An emergent Minority Report?
Covered here previously. ClickZ provides some additional details. I don't see it as revolutionary but its origin has made many people pay attention. This article...
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Making Sense of Big Data
In Baseline: Regarding my favorite topic, how important visualization is to analytics. While here the term Big Data is heavily used, the idea is broader than that...
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Expansion of Wal-Mart Labs
On expansions of Wal-Mart Labs. I like to think that our many conversations with Wla-Mart led to some of the ideas and directions seen here. " .... One of the...
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Short Guide to Mobile Computing
In ClickZ: A short marketers guide to mobile computing. Nicely done, covers a number of issues I had not seen stated.
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Cisco Cloud Investment
Cisco makes cloud investments. " ... Cisco Systems says it will launch a cloud effort with a $1 billion investment over the next two years, including construction...
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Topic Modeling in Machine Learning
I see that David Blei has been given the ACM-InfoSys award. In reading about his work in textual analysis I saw this was related to work we had done in 'content...
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On New TV Experiences and Technology
In AdAge; I am late to the use of smart HD TVs. Started an experimental look at how shoppers could experience TV programming, both broadcast and on demand, and...
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Talent Analytics
Brought to my attention. Talent Analytics. Via Mike Kennedy. " ... Our unique dataset measures innate employee characteristics tied to business performance....
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Building Commerce Anywhere Models
In Retailwire: Good overview of the topic. It is the big retailers that are starting to understand and leverage this." ... The classic multi-channel retail business...
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Seeking Deep Neighborhood Data
In Progressive Grocer: what we often discovered, data is not complete enough to effectively leverage. Its not only about siting, as covered here. Answer is"...
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Watson and Brain Cancer Assistance
In IEEE Spectrum: Watson: takes on the genetics of brain cancer. The use of an 'AI' as an assistant is a good model, which we used often for related models. The...
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Data Visualization Resources
A library site describing and linking to books, papers and white papers of data visualization expert Stephen Few.
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Research: Hand Written Notes Improve Recall
Interesting take in the Chronical for Higher Education. " ... Distractions posed by laptops in the classroom have been a common concern, but new research suggests...
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Virtual Retail Shopping vs Shelf Research
Will we eventually be using virtual reality to shop? Another area of examination in the innovation center. The recent emergence of Oculus and Google Glass brings...
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Designing and Visualization Connected
Stephen Few on Design in the Real World. Have discussed our experiments in this space recently. He states " ... designer/teacher Victor Papanek, whose work IWill...
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Pepsi in Augmented Reality Digest
An interesting digest of augmented reality applications, most in marketing and entertainment driven, a good view of what is going on commercially in the space.Augmented...
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Birds and Gamified Education
Having been involved in a number of gamification projects, I have always thought it is the gaming companies that could ultimately do the best in applying game dynamics...
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The Meaning of R for Science and Industry
In FastcoLabs: Thoughtful piece about open source and science. I am in the midst of looking at packages for the application of data modeling and mining capabilities...
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