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Greenplum Analytics Blog
From The Eponymous Pickle

Greenplum Analytics Blog

I have seen some interesting things out of Greenplum.  They have just announced an analytics blog." ... Datastream, Greenplum’s official blog, delivering analytics...

Unlocking the Predictive Power of the Web
From The Eponymous Pickle

Unlocking the Predictive Power of the Web

A piece in Singularity Hub on the temporal search in the forward looking search engine Recordedfuture, which I have now followed for some time.   It now has a new...

Benefits of Being Out of Touch
From The Eponymous Pickle

Benefits of Being Out of Touch

As PC use declines,  we still expect to be in touch.  Our devices call us to attention.  We share the devices with personal communications and the difference blurs...

Revisiting P&G's Connect & Develop
From The Eponymous Pickle

Revisiting P&G's Connect & Develop

Fast Company on P&G's Connect & Develop Approach.  Good article on the purpose and direction of P&G's outsourcing of innovation using Connect and Develop.  I would...

Immersive Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Immersive Visualization

From Mindjet:  Good overview of the concept of immersing yourself, and your business teams, in your data.  I have covered the broad idea a number of times.

PC Sales Slump
From The Eponymous Pickle

PC Sales Slump

PC Sales are decreasing.  Good statistics.  Traditional sales leaders like HP and Dell are getting hit with the expectation of the company and worker that software...

Health Care via Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Health Care via Big Data

In GigaOM:  Not much detail here, but lots of players mentioned.  It is not only the idea of Big Data, but sometimes even just some data, intelligently sharing...

Interview with Alan Kay
From The Eponymous Pickle

Interview with Alan Kay

Good interview with Alan Kay.  Developer of Smalltalk. We talked to him long ago about the use of 'object oriented' methods for making development more efficient...

Comment Thoughts
From The Eponymous Pickle

Comment Thoughts

Anyone who runs a blog has noticed that there are sharply increasing amounts of Spam being received.  I approve all comments to this blog.  I cannot approve anything...

Social Media Replace Personal Relationships
From The Eponymous Pickle

Social Media Replace Personal Relationships

 Cooking information like recipes are a typical currency exchanged in families. Now that is being replaced by online resources.  I have noticed that in my own cooking...

Five National Parks on Streetview
From The Eponymous Pickle

Five National Parks on Streetview

A further archiving of our landscape.    Very nicely done. Tour the parks from your armchair.   As an amateur botanist this allows me to link to specific plants...

Algorithms Writing Articles
From The Eponymous Pickle

Algorithms Writing Articles

Based on the kinds of things I have seen in the press lately,  and the increasing need for content to fill so many empty spces, perhaps it is inevitable.

New Kind of Science, Again
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Kind of Science, Again

Steven Wolfram looks back at the publication of 'A New Kind of Science', which we examined ten years ago as a means to model certain kinds of group interaction....

Future of Medical Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Future of Medical Visualization

We live in a world that will increasingly bring sensors, experts, databases and models of many kinds closer together to provide help to the decision maker. AndA...

Data Science Courses
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Science Courses

And more R courses for data visualization and analytics.  In this case it is more about new methods being made available that will soon be in the toolbox of the...

Customer Rewards Programs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Customer Rewards Programs

The latest on customer rewards programs from  Progressive Grocer.   The overall return on investment has been increasing.  The sophistication of the methods to...

Georgia R School Opens
From The Eponymous Pickle

Georgia R School Opens

AnalyticsBridge posts the particulars about the online 'Georgia R School', available for as little as $110.  The R stat and visualization package is becoming increasingly...

Nielsen Launches Innovation Lab
From The Eponymous Pickle

Nielsen Launches Innovation Lab

Nielsen launches ad effectiveness innovation lab.  " ... The Nielsen Innovation Lab will incorporate assets from across the Nielsen group, along with external resources...

Eye  Tracking in the Aisle
From The Eponymous Pickle

Eye Tracking in the Aisle

In the WSJ:  Continued advanced usage of eye tracking to understand the shopping consumer.    Some very interesting detail is included in this article.   "...

Unilever Partners with Facebook for Safe Water
From The Eponymous Pickle

Unilever Partners with Facebook for Safe Water

In Consumer Goods Technology:  Safe water approaches seem to be coming popular for large consumer goods companies.    Admirable effort, and the Facebook connection...
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