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Urban World App Examined
From The Eponymous Pickle

Urban World App Examined

Came upon the visually impressive Urban World App by McKinsey.   Free and readily downloadable for IOS or Android. The front end interface is a globe you can move...

Mathematical Shape of Things to Come
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mathematical Shape of Things to Come

New challenges on how to deal with bigger, more complex, dynamic and disorganized data.  Some great nontechnical examples here that can give you an appreciation...

Serious Games for Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Serious Games for Learning

In Serious Games Market:    " ... Mecanika is a physics-based puzzle Serious Game designed by François Boucher-Genesse to help players intuitively learn classical...

Cloud Changing Business Culture and Strategy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cloud Changing Business Culture and Strategy

An interesting view.  Or has a new business culture created the need for cheap, fast and accurate sharing in new ways that have created the Cloud?

Big Science Driving Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Science Driving Big Data

In Quanta:  How big science has created and continues to drive Big Data. This is my background so I follow it carefully.  We are finally seeing a time where the...

Augmented Pixels Reality Hoops Game
From The Eponymous Pickle

Augmented Pixels Reality Hoops Game

This continues my conversations with developers in the Augmented reality space. Here with the Ukranian firm Augmented Pixels. A new free game developed and then...

Shifting Urban Landscape Report
From The Eponymous Pickle

Shifting Urban Landscape Report

Most interesting and timely report from McKinsey: Urban world: The shifting global business landscape.  With lots of interesting graphics and statistics." ... Emerging...

Data Scientist Code of Professional Conduct
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Scientist Code of Professional Conduct

I still have my doubts over the longevity of the term 'Data Scientist',  and now they are creating a professional society and a code of conduct." ... Data Scientists...

Alex Sopko Now Writing for the Washington Times
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alex Sopko Now Writing for the Washington Times

Have always been a journalist at heart.  There are useful news stories lined up in my head waiting to emerge.  I particularly love to see examples of how young"...

Health Care Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Health Care Innovation

HBR establishes a health care innovation center site.  " ...  Leading Health Care Innovation, a collaboration of the editors of the Harvard Business Review and...

Effectiveness of Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Effectiveness of Analytics

A good piece on the problem.  But ultimately it is ROI that talks.   And making sure that decision makers get the word of what is happening.    Before, during and...

Consumer Products and Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Consumer Products and Robotics

Consumer products taking cues from robotics. We did this early on.  But the economics ultimately did not make sense.  " ... Smart thermostats, drones and other...

Quoting in My Blog Posts
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quoting in My Blog Posts

I was asked about how I do quotes in blog posts.    Quotes are always placed in italics, and then embedded in quote marks.  Ellipses are usually included to indicate...

Data Science for Business
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Science for Business

Recommended to me, now scanning and and considering for further use: Data Science for Business: What you need to know about data mining and data-analytic thinking...

Tableau and Lavastorm
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tableau and Lavastorm

Tableau is meant to be easy to use.  So they have resisted adding analytics directly to their approach.   Their work with Lavastorm adds analytics, which should...

Semantic Startup for Content Generation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Semantic Startup for Content Generation

We experimented with methods like this, first I have seen it in the wild again.  A means of combining human and machine skills.Analytically generating content based...

Fraunhofer Study on Open Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fraunhofer Study on Open Innovation

Fad or phenomena?  Download from link below. UC Berkeley and Fraunhofer study how large companies practice innovationThe Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation...

Neuromarketing Theory and Practice
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neuromarketing Theory and Practice

A publication of the NMSBA.    You have to be a member of this to get the publication free, and I am not.   Looks to be of interest.    Neurorelaydescribes its...

Web Marginal Cost
From The Eponymous Pickle

Web Marginal Cost

Seth Godin and marginal cost on the Web.  Good thoughts, including the mythical marginal cost of 'free' on the web. " ... Until you understand the true marginal...

Randomness Ruling Our Lives
From The Eponymous Pickle

Randomness Ruling Our Lives

Late to it, but completing: The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow.  Always looking for books that do a good job of providing explanations...
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