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Data Science for Business
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Science for Business

Recommended to me, now scanning and and considering for further use: Data Science for Business: What you need to know about data mining and data-analytic thinking...

Tableau and Lavastorm
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tableau and Lavastorm

Tableau is meant to be easy to use.  So they have resisted adding analytics directly to their approach.   Their work with Lavastorm adds analytics, which should...

Semantic Startup for Content Generation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Semantic Startup for Content Generation

We experimented with methods like this, first I have seen it in the wild again.  A means of combining human and machine skills.Analytically generating content based...

Fraunhofer Study on Open Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fraunhofer Study on Open Innovation

Fad or phenomena?  Download from link below. UC Berkeley and Fraunhofer study how large companies practice innovationThe Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation...

Neuromarketing Theory and Practice
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neuromarketing Theory and Practice

A publication of the NMSBA.    You have to be a member of this to get the publication free, and I am not.   Looks to be of interest.    Neurorelaydescribes its...

Web Marginal Cost
From The Eponymous Pickle

Web Marginal Cost

Seth Godin and marginal cost on the Web.  Good thoughts, including the mythical marginal cost of 'free' on the web. " ... Until you understand the true marginal...

Randomness Ruling Our Lives
From The Eponymous Pickle

Randomness Ruling Our Lives

Late to it, but completing: The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow.  Always looking for books that do a good job of providing explanations...

Yin and Yang of Corporate Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Yin and Yang of Corporate Innovation

Late to this 2012 NYT article,  Jazz meet Google and Apple" ... Apple and Google pursue very different paths to innovation, but the gap between their two models...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Rating FOCS 1973

Can we rate the research topics from 1973? Janos Simon is one of Juris Hartmanis’ illustrious students. He did not have a paper in FOCS 1973, but did have one with...

Chevy and Google Glass
From The Eponymous Pickle

Chevy and Google Glass

In Adage:  Execs look at Google Glass.  Navigation, augmented reality, service support?  Lots of possibilities.

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium

Opens spring 2014. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.

"Trust the Math"
From Schneier on Security

"Trust the Math"

I like this piece of art. Someone should do T-shirts.

Clouds, Analytics and Advanced Patient Care
From The Eponymous Pickle

Clouds, Analytics and Advanced Patient Care

Recently pointed out to me,  “Turning Healthcare Vision into Reality with the Cloud”  by Scott Megill, CEO of Coriell Life Sciences in the IBM Smarter Planet blog...

Teaching Problem Solving
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Teaching Problem Solving

One of the things we like to say learning computer science in general and programming in particular leads to is learning problem solving. It’s a nice theory and...

US Moves to Become Top Global Energy Producer
From The Eponymous Pickle

US Moves to Become Top Global Energy Producer

From MJ Perry:  A visualization and view of data about real markets in action.  US Moving quickly to be top global energy producer.  Not aided by, but often in...

What are the genuinely useful ideas in programming?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

What are the genuinely useful ideas in programming?

The software industry is probably the most dynamic and innovation of all industries. However, many people also try to convince us to adapt new ideas despite their...

Mobile Consumer Behavior Visualized Simply
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mobile Consumer Behavior Visualized Simply

From POPAI:  An infographic that Googe developed to illustrate mobile consumer behavior.   The piece is low information, easy on your eyes, they say.  Saving us...

Self Service BI for Small Businesses
From The Eponymous Pickle

Self Service BI for Small Businesses

A number of approaches to bring self service business intelligence to the small to medium sized company.

Developments in Microphone Technology
From Schneier on Security

Developments in Microphone Technology

What's interesting is that this matchstick-sized microphone can be attached to drones. Conventional microphones work when sound waves make a diaphragm move, creating...

More Testing of First Commercial Quantum Computer
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Testing of First Commercial Quantum Computer

In Wired, have followed for years.  I know some of the founders.  More testing of the D-Wave system, now being used by Lockheed, Google and NASA.   There is still...
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