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Applying Data to the Education Landscape
From The Eponymous Pickle

Applying Data to the Education Landscape

Involved in just such a project.  How do you understand how well education is working under alternative conditions?  And how will education be adapted to changes...

Analytics at the Intersection of Humans and Machines
From The Eponymous Pickle

Analytics at the Intersection of Humans and Machines

If makes much sense to combine human and machine intelligence.  Include the ability of the researcher and find ways to integrate it with better user interfaces....

Learning Innovation Entrepreneurship
From The Eponymous Pickle

Learning Innovation Entrepreneurship

In Innovation Excellence: Successful Innovative Entrepreneurship is Seldom Learnt at Business School. Quite true.  Its more like being agile, using tacit and dynamic...

Next Gen Databases
From The Eponymous Pickle

Next Gen Databases

Via Gib Bassett:What problems do next Gen Databases solve?  Good introductory read:" ... The past decades organisations have been working with relational databases...

Monopolies and Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Monopolies and Innovation

Clarence Hickman at Bell labs had invented a mag tape telephone answering machine in the 1934... But they decided to squelch turning it into a consumer product....

Seeking Common Languages for Data Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Seeking Common Languages for Data Visualization

An item in Fierce CIO attracted my attention.  Which pointed to Tom Davenport's HBR blog article this past April.   About how P&G is creating and delivering standardized...

Report on Brains on the Path to Purchase
From The Eponymous Pickle

Report on Brains on the Path to Purchase

In my last message I indicated my acquired skepticism on some current neuromarketing work.   Just to provide some balance, let me point a report from a recent conference...

Detecting Mathematical Thinking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Detecting Mathematical Thinking

Can we detect reliably the specific nature of the thoughts in the brain?  Some work reported on in Nature Communications that show we can deferentially detect the...

Connected TV and Internet of Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

Connected TV and Internet of Things

We did lots of work in our 'future home' experiments in our innovation centers to understand how the home would ultimately be interconnected both inside and outside...

In Line Help
From The Eponymous Pickle

In Line Help

Google has added inline help in several of its services.  More here.  Slightly more convenient in the actual context of the problem.  Intelligence always exists...

Graphics Chips for High Speed Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Graphics Chips for High Speed Visualization

In Technology Review:  Work from MIT.  Reviewing.   See their public interface and demonstration which looks at Twitter data. Lets you look at a database of  11...

Educause Conference Reprise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Educause Conference Reprise

Been a long time reader of Educause, even before the Web,  as a newsletter.   I see that the Cisco blog is writing about their conference.  Some good posts recently...

Dilbert in the Enterprise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dilbert in the Enterprise

In the HBR:   We were heavy users of the Dilbert strip in the enterprise.   They found their way into many slide shows.  We thought that Scott Adams must have been...

Amazon and Google in the Supply Chain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon and Google in the Supply Chain

So true, worth looking at again:Why distributors should pay attention to Amazon, Google Amazon's B2B online channel Amazon Supply and Google's Google Shopping for...

P&G Gym from IDEO
From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G Gym from IDEO

For a recent talk I had to research some of the work that IDEO did for P&G.  I re-discovered this Bloomberg article about the design work that IDEO did to helpWayne...

Topology Mapping for Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Topology Mapping for Analytics

Seems Vincent Granville has been thinking similarly lately.  See his article and code in Data Science Central:   A little known component that should be part of...

Simple Model of Persuasion
From The Eponymous Pickle

Simple Model of Persuasion

In Neuroscience Marketing: " ... The Persuasion Slide™. In short, it’s a simple model for persuasion that encompasses a variety of conscious and non-conscious factors...

US Alternative Fueling Stations Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

US Alternative Fueling Stations Visualization

A good interactive data visualization from Tableau.  In their public gallery.  This would have been useful for a study I did a few years ago on the effects on the...

The Economics of Advanced Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Economics of Advanced Analytics

Shu Schiller, correspondent and Wright State professor, will be giving a talk at the upcoming Teradata conference.    Link below for more information about the1463...

DunnHumby Seeks to Invest in Cincinnati Startups
From The Eponymous Pickle

DunnHumby Seeks to Invest in Cincinnati Startups

As they progress with their downtown US Headquarters facility:" ... Look for data analysis firm Dunnhumby’s new seed-stage venture fund to invest in CincinnatiPress...
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