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Internet of Things v Beer Game
From The Eponymous Pickle

Internet of Things v Beer Game

Have played the MIT beer game a number of times for demonstrating supply chain applications. Even used it as a simulation base for gamification tests.  Now canCisco...

Data Sonification
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Sonification

A space I looked at for our information innovation group.  A way to use other senses, including sound, as an interface to deliver data and its patterns.  AT&T had...

Business Models for the Data Economy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Business Models for the Data Economy

Just brought to my attention, a topic I am examining:Business Models for the Data Economy by Q. Ethan McCallum and Ken GleasonFree Kindle edition.  A 29 page brief...

Sharks in the Internet of Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sharks in the Internet of Things

Sharks triggering tweets in at Australian Beach.  A clever idea.  Sensors providing warnings in the narrow bandwidth of tweets.  This may provide some hints as"...

Old Grocery Lists
From The Eponymous Pickle

Old Grocery Lists

I worked for some time on the psychology and technology of the simple grocery list.  Now it has emerged, Michaelangelo's handwritten grocery list.  How much have...

Big Data v Spreadsheets v Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data v Spreadsheets v Visualization

From the very beginning I have been involved in leveraging data for value.  If you examine what companies have done over the years, starting with the inventionIn...

Computers and Society
From The Eponymous Pickle

Computers and Society

Recently talked to Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk about her interdiciplinary computing blog.  And her book site: Computers and Society - Computing For Good." ... Computers...

More iBeacon Rollout Details
From The Eponymous Pickle

More iBeacon Rollout Details

More on the iBeacon.  Details of the rollout. Recently took a closer look at similar approaches, and how the data being gathered could be used for tailoring promotions...

Friday Squid Blogging: Kim Jong Un Tours Frozen Squid Factory
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Kim Jong Un Tours Frozen Squid Factory

Frozen squid makes him happy. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.

Step by Step ROI Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Step by Step ROI Innovation

Doing it step by step is key:   In Forbes: " .... Do you have a great idea for improving your industry? For most people, inventing a new product is foreign territory...

March on: Cost of Bad Online Experiences
From The Eponymous Pickle

March on: Cost of Bad Online Experiences

A good piece in CIO Insight, with some very useful points.  But I have some issues again with the format.   The slide show.  This is getting more common, apparently...

The Big Picture of Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Big Picture of Big Data

Good overview interview of the state of big data, with a number of industry examples that I had not seen before.  There is much more in this blog on the topic,...

Wikipedia's Data Trove for Trends
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wikipedia's Data Trove for Trends

I have talked to several people who are using the Wikipedia as an ontology of knowledge. Surely there is much more data to be mined there. But what statistics exist...

Examining Online Returns
From The Eponymous Pickle

Examining Online Returns

In Retailwire:  A discussion of online returns.  Easy returns are becoming a big issue for online purchases.  How can they be better addressed?   " ... With free...

Dell and Dropbox
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dell and Dropbox

A interesting interaction. In my own experience I am seeing more people using Dropbox as a standard tool,  working well on all the standard devices.    I often...

Showrooming at Best Buy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Showrooming at Best Buy

I had not realized I was part of BestBuy's showrooming strategy.   I was there for the first time in months last week.  But they did not ultimately convert me.In...

Fastest way to compute the greatest common divisor
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Fastest way to compute the greatest common divisor

Given two positive integers x and y, the greatest common divisor (GCD) z is the largest number that divides both x and y. For example, given 64 and 32, the greatest...

NFL Tackling Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

NFL Tackling Big Data

In our recent executive briefing we used the work by the NBA using video imaged game recording for gathering big data to understand the detail of game and player...

Showrooming and Webrooming
From The Eponymous Pickle

Showrooming and Webrooming

A retail story,  Inspired by a post by correspondent Herb Sorensen.  I relate our experience: .... We were recently in local Costco buying a relatively expensive...

Data Engines
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Engines

Data Engines.  A reminder of this topic, which I had forgotten about.  You want to perform some analytic process, but where is the required data?  Often a big issue...
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