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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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Considering the Cloud
Good Thoughtful podcast piece on the topicManaging TechnologyUp in the Cloud: Hype and High Expectations for Cloud ComputingCloud computing is creating waves in...
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World Peace via Vending Machines
A curious project from Coke using vending machines to promote world peace. Would they then need a vending App too?
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Sands Partners with NVISO
Just announced. A natural interaction for neuromarketing work. Surprised it it not more often done. Directly linking facial imaging with neuroscience technology...
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Data Visualization and BI Tools
Useful comments on the selection process. Again, I look for methods that do the most common things easily and directly. Ignore all the flash, all the visualization...
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Facebook Privacy
At a dinner last night had a heated conversation about how they were abandoning Facebook for privacy concerns. Professionals refusing to join as a result.Here ...
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Mining Suicide Notes
Locally a good example of predictive text analysis. Mining a large corpus of suicide notes at Cincinnati's Children's Hospital, to model and predict when suicide...
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Big Data in Wal-Mart's DNA
Gib Bassett of Teradata sends along a link to an article about Wal-Mart's use of Big Data. Nice detail that can be instructive to others in this space. If anyone...
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Informs Analytics
Upcoming Informs Analytics meeting in San Antonio in early April. I have attended many, hosted a few, written speeches for them, presented at many, even received...
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Analytics Planning
Something we did for thirty plus years. Under all sorts of regimes and priorities. Among what the article suggests, to be ready for chaos. Be agile. Be ready...
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Rethinking Product Form for 3D Printing
An interesting view. I am still skeptical about the general use of 3D printing for manufacturing. But there are some broadening thoughts here. The designs have...
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Procter and Verix Partnership
More on the Procter - Verix partnership , from CEO magazine. Delivering easier to apply Business Intelligence: " ... After a year of intensive teamwork between...
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Visualizing the Internet
Flowing data describes an App that provides a 3D representation of the infrastructure of the Internet. No specific value, except the knowledge that we are riding...
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Standards in the CPG and Retail Industry
An interesting report via GS1 from CapGemini on the future of standards there. These are key issues to make these spaces more efficient. " ... Capgemini has released...
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Google Reader Gone
Google reader RSS is scheduled to be gone in 70 days. I have used it since it first arrived. It is a simple way to do information feeds. Very popular from what...
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Glass as Newton as Vision
A colleague sends along this view in Quartz, of Google Glass as something akin to the Apple Newton, visionary in direction, but something that will pave the way...
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Cheap Gene Machines
Simpler, cheaper gene analysis could revolutionize medicine. In IEEE Spectrum. " ... Soon, Rothberg says, everybody will be sequenced—probably as infants—and...
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Unilever's Dove is Mobile
In Mobile Marketer, how Unilever is using mobile and video to promote their Dove brand.
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Mobile Promotions and Impulse Buys
In Progressive Grocer: Perhaps a non intuitive linkage? " ... Research published by the American Marketing Association shows that shoppers make more unplanned...
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