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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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Cyber Security from Recorded Future
Have presented Recorded Future a number of times as a forward looking unstructured analysis method. Nor they announced something new, using their unique methods...
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Do Data Scientists Scale?
Andrew Brust on the nature of data scientists and the scalability of what they do, or claim to do. I agree with many of the points made. I will summarize my...
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Batch Mode Productivity
Our wealth of digital tools allow a broad range of time sharing to perform tasks. This can be selectively useful, but is clearly not the way to get real things...
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The Nature of the Data Scientist
Stephen Few writes about the nature of the term 'data scientist'. I personally don't like the term, I prefer the term 'analyst', which has fewer implications...
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Google Now Topics
A piece on the access of topics in the intelligent assistant Google Now. Intrguing, but it did give me what I expected when I accessed the topics page. Interesting...
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Discarding the Loyalty Card
Albertson's drops the loyalty card. With all the data being generated by loyalty ideas, and new ones blooming, some retailers are moving the other way. And some...
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R in Action
Some time ago I ordered the Book: R in Action: Data Analysis and Graphics with R, by Robert I Kabakoff. Have had cause to refer to it a number of times, but have...
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Changing CIOs
A view of how the role of CIOs is changing. The short article makes the point that we have known for a long time. CIO's cannot be players that are in love with...
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GE, AI and Modeling Hospitals with Corvix
Fascinating work by GE in the use of artificial intelligence in a system called Corvix. During the AI explosion of the 80s we talked to GE about what I would...
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Foundation of the Internet of Things
In E-Commerce Times: Interesting idea, but how do we get all the things to work together? Were are the standards to make it work? Also good mention of how...
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Marketing Mix Criticized, Defended
Defense In AdAge: We used marketing mix since their very earliest inception. It is a relatively simple statistical technique that suggests the best investment...
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Avoiding Pitfalls in Predictive Analytics
Venkat Viswanathan makes some useful comments. Some of them relate to my favorite suggestion: Simplify." Predictive analytics will almost always enable better...
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Customer Engagement Analytics for Cultural Venues
Its all about engaging the customer. All companies, large, small and midsize need better ways to engage with and retain their customers. And as the contextThe...
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Kroger Checkout Time Technology
Good USA Today article on a number of methods that Kroger is using to improve checkout times. A high labor cost in retail, and frequent complaint of shoppers...
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Black Swans Circling?
In the HBR Blog. Provocative piece on the number of changes occurring that could influence the near term future of P&G. And many other consumer goods companies...
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Drones Will Bring us Data
In Nature: We thought of using teams of robots to gather information from the plant and manufacturing spaces and outdoor staging yard floor. We did use satellite...
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Analytics E Newsletter
The Informs Analytics e-Newsletter. Always informative. Subscribe. Latest articles:- Continuing education for analytics professionals- Big data paying off for...
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Welcome to Complex Event Processing
Thinking about real time processing. Getting more important every day. We addressed this for complex high speed manufacturing lines. Linking advanced analytics...
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Corning and Electronically Tinted Windows
In IEEE Spectrum: An energy savings idea, but one that does increase the complexity of the smart home. Visited Corning some years ago and enjoyed their approaches...
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