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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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On the Rise of the Swarm
Our enterprise did a number of analytics projects based on swarm technology, also called Agent Based Modeling. We brainstormed warehouse compliance swarms. Now...
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Data Driven Culture for Analytics
Good piece in a new newsletter I get. Business driven analytics, commentary by three analytics managers. The federated org structure sounds the most familiar...
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Excel and Big Data
In GigaOm: Walter Riker sends along this link about MS Excel and Hadoop. A surprising amount of analytical work is done in Excel, and it is natural to see links...
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Team Blogging Practices
When I ran a multiple internal blog operation in the enterprise, the goals were knowledge retention, sharing and collaboration. We did both internal and external...
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Show Me the Numbers
I have been fully reading Stephen Few's book: Show me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten. (Second Edition). In part for preparation of some...
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Sephora Haul Addiction
Ann Althouse examines the 100,000 videos entitled "Sephora Haul' on Youtube. Quite an interesting view of what might be called cosmetics addiction and ultimately...
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Making Time For Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: A former CPG innovation manager Kevin McFarthing, talks about how people collaborate for innovation in the big enterprise, spinning...
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Android Robotics
A good overview, with lots of pictures, of progress in android robotics in Japan. For care giving and beyond. The empathic and human aspects are still to be determined...
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Secrets of Data Visualization
Erica Driver writes about data visualization. Some practical and often very true thoughts.The best secret of all that I can contribute is that you have to have...
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Empathic Design
The term was a new one to me. I do agree that users are people, and you have to consider their needs to make a system that supports their decisions. Thus all...
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Thinglist
A very simple App for saving ideas and recommendations that I am currently trying. Simple is good. Is it more simple than using a basic note taking function?
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Why BI Fails
I agree with some of the commenters. Tools may be necessary these days, but they are not sufficient. Your BI project will mostly likely fail not because features...
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Safeway Avoids Print
In Adage: Safeway looks at a world without print ads, moves digital. " ... Safeway is doing its best to eliminate print advertising in favor of more personalized...
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iPad Addiction
In Baseline Mag: Some thoughts and statistics about how people are getting addicted to the tablet format. Retailers and marketers should notice this.
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How to Create a Mind
A piece on Ray Kurzweil's (now at Google) latest book: How to Create a Mind: the Secret of Human Thought Revealed. Always fascinating, sometimes over the top...
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On the Cost of Suspicion
An interesting HBR case study of the cost of suspicion in the enterprise. Refreshingly different piece. Also hints at how this can go beyond just the usual personnel...
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Neural Networks Retooling the Android
We used so-called artificial neural nets (ANN) in the enterprise over a decade ago for specific kinds of focused analysis of consumer data. Inspired by the brain's...
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Evidence Tablets are Eroding PC Market
In GigaOM: Even a cursory observation in any airport waiting room will demonstrate this. " Naysayers may continue to ignore the trend, but tablets aren’t toys...
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Augmented Reality Chipset
Metaio announces bringing this idea to market today. A good idea for prototyping applications of AR. I also see specialized applications of augmented reality...
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