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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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Price Chopper and Vine
In an interesting retail/CPG example. Twitter owned Vine is being used by Price Chopper for marketing with six second videos.
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Preparing for Analytics 3.0
I like Thomas H Davenport's concise description of what he calls Analytics 3.0. Much as I dislike the numerical indexing of the approach. It is largely about ...
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P&G Finds Goldmine in Analytics
In the WSJ Blogs: Thomas H Davenport describes some his findings after meeting with Procter & Gamble. Exploring P&G's long time use of the analytics technology...
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Google Reveals their Glass
Today more about features and directions of the vaunted 'Google Glass' eye wear style interface. Now including voice commands. If this becomes popular it will...
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CIOs Are Building App Stores
In Forbes: We saw it coming and it will progress. Apps are becoming part of the consumerization of data and process improvement via systems. Like the movesSee...
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Human Robot Relationships
A good overview piece. A review of some of Sherry Turkle's work. We examined this when we looked at Japanese work on robot companions and help mates. The idea...
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Internet Limit
In SCiam: When will the Internet reach its limit, and what are the implications? " ... The number of smartphones, tablets and other network-connected gadgets...
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Gartner Quadrant for Business Intelligence
I was sent a copy of Gartner's Magic Quadrant publication for business intelligence and analytics software. A simplistic view, but always a good place to start...
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Attack of the Customers
Colleague, correspondent and former co-fellow of mine at SNCR Paul Gillin has written a book just brought to my attention. Attack of the Customers: Why Critics...
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Mining Feeling Bionic Hands
Haptics are a favorite topic. We sought to gather large amounts of data about how hands interacted with products. Then mine that data for specific usage capabilities...
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Reinventing the Hospital, The Game
From my long time favorite collaborative future consulting group: Insititute for the Future (IFTF). A favorite topic, reinventing health care. I know of a number...
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The Separation of Web Pages
Back in the 90s we visited mathematician at the Santa Fe Institute, and learned to soon to be iconic statistic that people were separated on the web by a remarkably...
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Data Mining in R: Introductory Resources
The DataMining Collective sends along links to Data Mining in R. Fairly well done as an introduction, of both the power and complexity of using the Package R.the...
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Big Data Will End Segmentation and Long Analysis Times
IBM CEO makes a clear statement about how big data will influence two key areas of marketing measurement an analysis. And makes a clear challenge: " ... Big...
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Tamagotchi Emerges Again in Gamification
More than a dozen years ago we looked at Bandai's Tamagotchi pets as a potential model for consumer engagement. The basic idea was an early look at what we now...
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Google Retail Coming?
Mashable reports that Google retail stores are rumored to be on their way. At the very least a carefully selected group of Google stores could provide a wealth...
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Watching You Watch Data
Was briefly involved in a constituent project to this idea. So thinking about the kind and volume of data is very intriguing. Along with closing the loop of...
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Combating Showrooming With Rebates
Good piece by Theresa Wabler. " .... They key to combating the shopper trend of showrooming is finding creative approaches that serve the consumer and benefit...
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Getting the value of Big Data
Perceptive colleague Jason Terry sends along a link to a good overview piece on this topic in ZDnet. Winnowing good data from the junk is part of the reason it...
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