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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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Gmail's New Tabbed Layout and Advertising
Was wondering how Gmail's new tabbed layout, which uses an algorithm to separate primary and promotional email, might affect email advertising? I like the prefabricated...
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The Garage Group
Jason Hauer of The Garage Group sends along an update of their work, which seems to be flourishing. In particular a very impressive list of companies they are...
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How Online Rating Affect Judgement
From MIT: " ... Views you can use? How online ratings affect your judgmentStudy: Positive comments create an illusory snowball effect, while negative responses...
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Animated US Population Distribution
MJ Perry quotes an animated visual that shows the changes in US population age distribution over the years 1900-2060. Shows the movement of the baby boom bulge...
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On Irrational Decision Making
In Neurorelay colleague Gemma Calvert speaks about the irrational idea of rational consumer decision making. " ... The second Neuromarketing World Forum 2013...
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Investor Herd Dynamics
Crowd and herding dynamics were always an interest. With the thought of using them for physical retail understanding. Investing is different, but this posthas...
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Pre Store and In-Store Brains
Sands Research is giving a webinar tomorrow at 2 PM EST that I just learned about. More about that here. An example of what companies are trying to do today "...
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Audi Releases Augmented Reality Manual
Metaio reports that Audi has released an augmented reality enabled manual, linked to a smartphone App." ... Metaio, world leader in augmented reality (AR) software...
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On Body Language
Yet another example of nonconscious reactions. Body language. Well known, but not well codified. It has become common in recent years to use other measures like...
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New Age of Algorithms
A good view of Big Data and Analytics algorithms in the CSM. I like this article because it includes a number of real life application of analytics, several I...
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Uncomfortable CEOs
Former colleague José Ignacio Sordo Galarza has a new site: The Uncomfortable CEO. And I have just finished his new book: The Uncomfortable CEO: Making Information...
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Building Dashboards in R
Have not tried this in my recent R exploration, but looks to be very useful. Be aware this is fairly technical.
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London Recycling Bins are Following You
I have a recycling bin. It sits out at the curb once a week. When I saw this piece that was what I was thinking of. My bin tracking my recycling. Very different...
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Hardest Part of Data Visualization
Much agree. Simplicity of development, and then simplicity of understanding through interaction are key elements. Tableau is good at this, but could also be better...
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A Curious Tale of a Loss of E-Mail Privacy
In Forbes: An interview with Silent Circle co-founder Phil Zimmermann. Had not heard of the company. The company deleted its secure email service this past...
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Smart Socks Gather Data
Hackaday is an interesting site to follow. New uses of information technology hardware and software. Which naturally cobble together many well known techniques...
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IT in Times of Uncertainty
In the Future of the CIO Series: Some very good thoughts here. I particular: Simplicity. Not to say that I follow that recommendation well. As a follower of...
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Ants and Networking
What ants know. And what complex networks of things can be made to 'know'. Known as Agent Based Models. We studies this a decade ago in the enterprise. Though...
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A Look at Flat Design
A detailed look. With a number of recent examples, such as Microsoft. Starting to see it everywhere. " ... As the name indicates, flat design is defined by flatness...
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