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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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Tablet Market
A look at the current tablet market. Tablets continue to replace laptops for personal computing and information access power. Apples share drops among other...
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Privacy and Compliance Expertise from P&G
Once again I point to Sandra Hughes' Web site. She was previously chief privacy officer at Procter & Gamble. We were colleagues in those years. We met again...
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Computing Table Tops
We saw demonstrations of tabletop computing nearly a decade ago at several labs. Yet the format has not taken hold, though a few systems are still available. At...
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Income Mobility in the US
MJ Perry writes and provides an informative map. Shale oil is a big driver.
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Retail and Big Data
A case of retailer A&P using a big Data Portal. " ... This cloud-based portal enables retailers to share their proprietary data – including point of sale (POS)...
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Crowdsourced AI Includes Everyday Knowedge
In New Scientist: An AI that is apparently equivalent to a 4 year old in a verbal test. A big part of intelligence is our ability to manage our knowledge of"...
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3D Interactive Playground
Had not heard much from Disney of late in the digital world. But now an interesting play. Reminiscent of other simulation world ideas, which are usually difficult...
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Datification of Business
Datification is a new term for me, but a natural next step. In our own enterprise we drove the use of data for a long time. Many other companies are now discovering...
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Stouffer Mobile Marketing
In iMediaConnect: An example of how a company links past behavior to promotion. Apparently a big success: " .... How do you reach customers right at the point...
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Boost Creativity not Just Sales
In Fastcompany: Do interesting things. An early goal of our innovation centers. Make a space that will boost innovaton for workers. Connect it with lots ofLesson...
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Data Points Mean Something
They do. Book of interest brought to my attention: Data Points: Visualization That Means Something by Nathan Yau"Whether it's statistical charts, geographic maps...
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Stat Methods
See Robert Kabacoff's web site: Statmethods. And his associated blog. These cover statistical methods delivered in R. Devoted to learning R quickly and providing...
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Data Preparation Mistakes
From Catlin Garrett via Vincent Granville. Good thoughts worth reviewing. Boils down to really understanding the source of your data elements, and how they were...
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Retail Facial Recognition
Another example of using facial recognition for retail experience. Here apparently to detect VIPs. Had talked to people developing casino applications to detect...
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Unique Silicon Valley
I used to give informal tours of Silicon Valley starting at Stanford, and often got the question: Why here? I had a different perspective because I was usually...
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Location Analytics from Placed
Location Analytics example from Placed. Dated but interesting with broad statistics: " ..... In the largest showrooming study to date, Placed identified Best Buy...
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Reliability of Big Data Predictions
In Knowledge Core: Intriguing piece. Philosophically oriented. A question we have asked of all analytics for many decades. With the usual cautions and prescriptions...
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User Interface for R
In the midst of looking at some User Interfaces for the R statistical and visualization system. The RStudio system was brought to my attention by several people...
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Randy Pausch Design Lessons
Collaborative design lesson from Randy Pausch of Carnegie Mellon Particularly interested in the nature of collaborative design: " ... This week will mark the...
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