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Search,  Past and Future and Semantic
From The Eponymous Pickle

Search, Past and Future and Semantic

In GigaOM:  the future of search:  " ... As consumers look for the answers to complicated questions via search query, with the help of semantic technology, marketers...

New Tableau with Boxplots and R
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Tableau with Boxplots and R

Have used the Tableau Systems data visualization, we looked at it before it came out of Stanford University around 2002.   I continue to use it, among other visualization...

Big Data and Big Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data and Big Science

In CACM:  About the integration of high performance computing (HPC) and Big Data.  As the article suggests,   the result of this is to create more data.   And I...

Consortium Forming an Industrial Internet
From The Eponymous Pickle

Consortium Forming an Industrial Internet

Via colleague Shoumen Datta:US Consortium Forming an Industrial InternetSAN JOSE, Calif. – As many as ten companies including AT&T, Cisco Systems, GE, IBM, andAnd...

Analytics e-News Newsletter
From The Eponymous Pickle

Analytics e-News Newsletter

Another good resource, and links to papers from Informs, the authoritative resource for modeling and business systems improvement.   Always worth reading.

Big Data and HR
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data and HR

In the Atlantic:  Good general, non technical piece.  True as the article says, they are watching you at work.  They are also watching you as you work in your social...

Questions for the C-Suite
From The Eponymous Pickle

Questions for the C-Suite

The earliest experiences I had with the global enterprise were working directly with the CEO.   He had built a system that ran on an early desktop, I helped with...

iBeacon for Retailers at Macy's
From The Eponymous Pickle

iBeacon for Retailers at Macy's

In TechCrunch: I Had known that Macy's had been doing work with Shopkick for some time.   I have the App on my iPhone.  A favorite experimental topic in our innovation...

PR Firms and the Wikipedia
From The Eponymous Pickle

PR Firms and the Wikipedia

In CIO Today:  I remember being part of a team to decide how we should react to the Wikipedia.  Issue warnings to our employees not to edit it?  When 'public interest'...

Impact of Simulation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Impact of Simulation

Using Simulation:   Well yes, based upon my background I am a big believer.  It is an essential approach of business analytics.   It was the first analytical technique...

Internet of Things and Ubiquitous Sensing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Internet of Things and Ubiquitous Sensing

In Computing Now:  Mentions my colleague and IOT pioneer Kevin Ashton.  Start of a series that will address many of the aspects and issues in the Internet of Things...

Wearables Reshaping the Enterprise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wearables Reshaping the Enterprise

In ComputerWorld:   Interesting questions are raised here.  " ... Wearables will reshape the way enterprises work ...  And enterprises could be the real growth....

Auction Technology
From The Eponymous Pickle

Auction Technology

Have now been involved in several projects that dealt with auction technology and related decision and classification methods.  Both for supply side material acquisition...

On Positive Human Emotion
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Positive Human Emotion

In The Edge:  We looked at emotion as a signal for understanding how people reacted to product, marketing interaction and use.   As part of our 'cognitive council'...

Google Delivers Costco
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Delivers Costco

In Wired: A competitive action with Amazon for the Holidays.  Another example of supply chain players connecting directly to the consumer ..." Google’s stated aim...

Global C-Suite Study
From The Eponymous Pickle

Global C-Suite Study

In the process of studying the IBM:  Customer-activated Enterprise Insights from the Global C-suite Study ...  Attending a conference call today about its findings...

Reducing Customer Defections
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reducing Customer Defections

In the HBS: On reducing customer defections.  A classic case for quantitative analysis using classification methods.   " ... Companies can't afford to lose hard...

Wizard Technical Events is Twenty Plus
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wizard Technical Events is Twenty Plus

Wizard Events announces that they have been around for twenty years.  I have scoped out some events with them.   Congratulations!  Their founder Russell Brumfield...

Changing Statistical Standards
From The Eponymous Pickle

Changing Statistical Standards

Debating a standard:Whats in a 95 percent confidence?Is there something special about a 95 percent probability? Absolutely not; a recent paper referred to it as...

Intel Betting on Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intel Betting on Big Data

In GigaOM:   Not unexpected, have been impressed by Intel's analytical work for some time.  " ... Intel is using big data to improve everything from manufacturing...
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