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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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Google's Changing View of Link Abuse
In Search Engine Watch: An instructive look at Google's changing view of link abuse. hat is, the use of links in a site that are sued to primarily influence Google's...
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Data Scientists
From the receont TDWI conference. A short video by Krish Krishnan on the need and nature of the data scientist. I agree in general, the data scientist includes...
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Community Managers and Equity
In Word of Mouth Marketing Blog: A resource I have just started to cover, some good thoughts about being a content and community manager. Reminds me of conversations...
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User Interface and Launch
In UX Magazine: A real-life view of how a startup can be killed at launch by not paying attention to its user interface.
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Sankey Diagrams for Balance Visualization
Though I had seen this form of visualization many times, I had never heard it called the Sankey Diagram. Often used for energy and resource balances. Recallstorytelling...
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Disruptive Innovation
Useful thoughts on the topic in a short post. And the start of a conversation: " ... What are the secrets of companies that manage to bring disruptive innovation...
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Predicting Images in Dreams
In the Smithsonian Magazine. Apparently we can now predict to some degree what people are seeing with a combination of fMRI and EEG sensors. I observed a number...
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Data Visualization and Story Telling
Gib Bassett sends along a link to an article compiled by Erica Driver. Data Visualization: Storytelling, Skills and Utility. Just this topic came up in a recent...
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Social Wicked Problems
An interesting technical look at the application of 'wicked problem' techniques to social problems. We used the term to indicated difficult to formalize and solve...
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How P&G Presents Data to Decision Makers
In the HBR: This effort started long ago as a method to deliver data and models to executives, and has evolved much more broadly for many employees. And has finally...
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On Collaboration for Reliable Data
Very true: In the end it is all about the decision processes themselves, equally important to the correctness of the data that drives them. Collaboration drives...
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What Designers Need to Know About Strategy
Good general advice: I think there is more 'magic' in design driven organizations, thus strategy is even more important than in engineering/quant driven. Good...
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Disappearing Messages
In MIT Technology Review: The increasing use of messages that will expire, self destruct and just go away. When I first saw evidence, I wondered how much consumer...
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Vega: A Visualization Grammar
Intriguing idea, for any visualization." ... Vega is a visualization grammar, a declarative format for creating, saving and sharing visualization designs. With...
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What we Don't Know
In the Edge: Posed as questions from our own field that we dread being asked. The examples are very interesting. Mapping out what we know we don't know. For "How...
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Nanotech Motors
In Foresight: A good place to follow progress in the nanotech space. A visual of a nanotech motor that might be used in some spectacular ways: " ... Near-term...
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About Risk
In Corporate Governance: I particularly like the discussion of how you deal with different kinds of risk. Risk is often considered an afterthought, even in sophisticated...
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Basics of Bitcoin
A NewYorker overview of what Bitcoin is and where its future might be. A P2P open source digital currency, they say, but what does that really mean? It has been...
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Infographics, Socially
I have written before that infographics are a poor way to provide data to people. It can often be used to twist information to your purposes, using slick graphics...
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