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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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Hidden Markov and More
A non technical description of a very technical set of methods for forecasting. Baum-Welch and Hidden Markov. Don't know much about this direction but looks to...
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P&G, Target and the Future of Retailing
In Retailwire: Another indication of how the world of retail is changing. And in particular the relationship between manufacturers and retailers. Do also read...
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Wikipedia Editing Bots
Editing Bots: Did not realize that so much WP editing was done with bots. Implications and dangers are still unclear. How does it influence confidence in the knowledge...
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Cross Targeting Multiple Devices
In CLickZ: What it is and why the hype? Most of us today use multiple devices. " ... Cross-device targeting, the ability to serve targeted advertising to consumers...
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A Look at R Histograms
A look at the humble histogram. In Flowingdata. There would not seem to be much to say about this, but the details are interesting. Comparing them to the similar...
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Swallowing Microchips for ID
Another sensor development. In this case for identification. But also for reading the brain? Overstatement I think. " ... “This pill has a small chip inside...
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On Packaging Innovation
Interesting viewpoint piece on innovation in packaging in CPG. Understanding the context and consumer behavior interacting with packaging is a key function of"...
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New in Business Intelligence
GigaOM writes about new things in BI, a renaissance it implies. At least from the perspective of a VC. Ok, lots there I had not heard of, and the descriptions...
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A Mainstream Internet of Things
In MIIT Technology Review: Short piece on the mainstreaming of the IOT. I agree, starting in areas were sensors are needed to monitor and look for outliers. The...
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Grocery Bag as an Indicator
In HBS Working Knowledge: An interesting example. But also an example of lack of actual causality in an indicator as well. Still useful for understanding the multiple...
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Fraud Detection Using Big Data
Using Big Data to Prevent Fraud: A fairly obvious application when you start to gather lots of operational data. See Zylab. " ... When it comes to data that...
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Visualizing a Conditional Probability
This is a visual simulation of conditional probability. The description at the link is quite technical and mathematical, but the visual simulation there provides...
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The Value of Business Simulation
If you could only understand how your business would operate before making changes? All business is based on prediction. You predict you will make money under...
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Destroying Online Reputation
An area we looked at in the early days of the Wikipedia. Now becoming considerably more sophisticated. From The Intercept: A number of documents extracted...
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Rise of Robotics
Ray Kurzweil on the rise of robotics. With much about the need for artificial intelligence to support them.
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Trends in Visualization
In Computing Now: Trends in visualization. Including but beyond what would usually call data visualization. It is good to make the distinction. " ... For this...
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Generating Serious Games Scenarios with Crowdsourcing
In MIT Technology Review: As summary of a technical paper, which is pointed to. This is the kind of application we used to call 'serious games', but now is more...
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Business Intelligence Quadrant
Nice overview of the current state of business intelligence and descriptive analytics. Includes an overview with the Gartner Quadrant. Also a complete supporting...
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Packaging Drives Purchases
From Kraft: Fairly obvious, packaging should act a signboard that will stop customers in their tracks. A few years ago we looked at approaches like electro luminescence...
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