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Last Chance: Analytics for Executives.
From The Eponymous Pickle

Last Chance: Analytics for Executives.

LAST CHANCE.  Regional interest in the use of Analytics.  Talk from successful professional practitioners.  In particular suitable for executives seeking to understand...

Idio Platform
From The Eponymous Pickle

Idio Platform

I noted that longtime  correspondent Damon Ragusa of Thinkvine is now connected with Idio.   Which "... understands your customer’s interests and intent through...

Managing Discontinuous Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Managing Discontinuous Innovation

Manager at Unisys Posts:  How do we manage disruptive trends?  Some good thoughts here.  Match our own experiences in the enterprise.  Remembering that roughly"...

Doing Data Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

Doing Data Science

Now available for order: Doing Data Science Paperback by Cathy O'Neil, Rachel Schutt: I like the general premise,  do not have yet:" ... Each chapter-long lecture...

Enterprise and Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Enterprise and Big Data

On Enterprise Big Data:  some good points made here.  There is still relatively little understanding, and thus investment in the techniques.  This is not new, it...

A Personal History of Blogging
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Personal History of Blogging

According to the Wikipedia, Blogs were invented in 1998.  In 2001 I started an internal enterprise blog that was the most read in our global company.  It connected...

Tagging Forward
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tagging Forward

This blog started in 2003, replacing an older internal blog. Starting last year I started to tag items in this blog.  All new items are now tagged.  I have also...

Where is the Power of the Crowd?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Where is the Power of the Crowd?

A good thought in Innovation Excellence:  " ... Crowdsourcing may have also benefited from the recent recession with firms finding an inexpensive army of recently...

Free BI Apps
From The Eponymous Pickle

Free BI Apps

In an interesting play, Microstrategy has introduced free BI Apps.  A not unsurprising direction to make basic BI capabilities generally available.  Although I...

Turning Maps into 3D Spaces
From The Eponymous Pickle

Turning Maps into 3D Spaces

From a recent gaming competition.  The use of historical maps that are then mapped into a 3D gaming style world.  Watch the linked-to video.   Will this ultimately...

Interactive Dynamic Map Example
From The Eponymous Pickle

Interactive Dynamic Map Example

MJ Perry points me to this interactive data visualization map that shows the number of living US presidents since 1789.  I like the general design, although the...

Innovation at the Tipping Point
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovation at the Tipping Point

Poses an interesting question:  " ... We all know innovation is important because it is the lifeblood of any business. But compare upcoming digital era to previous...

Reputation Risks from Technology
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reputation Risks from Technology

In CIO Insight:  A low information slide infomercial accounts the means by which corporate reputation can be endangered from new technologies.    Though the information...

Decline of the Wikipedia
From The Eponymous Pickle

Decline of the Wikipedia

We followed Wikipedia from the beginning.  We attempted to use the Wiki model to store and retrieve corporate knowledge internally.  Learning much about what worked...

Talk: From Mess to Analytical Models
From The Eponymous Pickle

Talk: From Mess to Analytical Models

A few seats left:TIBCO Spotfire and the Data Analytics Foundation personally invite you to the Analytics Value Proposition Series – From Mess, to Models, to Insight ...

FTC to Investigate the Internet of Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

FTC to Investigate the Internet of Things

In GigaOM: It should be regulated. But I have my doubts that governments will do a good job.  Think too of the implication of governments knowing the location,...

Facebook Teaching Machines to Learn
From The Eponymous Pickle

Facebook Teaching Machines to Learn

In Wired: It is interesting how companies are deciding to play in the machine learning Artificial Intelligence space.   On cursory examination Facebook seems to...

New Mobile Apps from Linkedin
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Mobile Apps from Linkedin

Linkedin has done some creative things that leverage their considerable database.  Here are some new Apps.  Back to credibility again.   And emphasizing mobile. ...

Butterflies for IT Management
From The Eponymous Pickle

Butterflies for IT Management

Another old idea come around again.  Can you use it for IT management?  Perhaps in a theoretical sense, but I am skeptical about its predictive power.  " .....

Big Data Explored and Vindicated
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data Explored and Vindicated

Review of:   Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, and Kenneth Cukier.   Strongly recommended, for...
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