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From The Eponymous Pickle

Comparision of Analytic Disciplines

A useful comparative look at analytic disciplines. Reasonable descriptions, also pointers to more resources in each. Shows some of the confusion that is coming... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 10, 2015 at 06:26 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Announces AWS Quicksight

Have subcribed to AWS for a time, and the beta of this, good effort:Amazon Announces QuickSight - Business Intelligence for Big Data on AWS by Matt KapilevichThroughout... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 10, 2015 at 05:40 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Education and Industry

Challenge: Is education servicing employment? What is working and what is failing? Had been on an advisory group for years that sought out how to adjust curriculum... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 10, 2015 at 05:14 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Get Your Audience to Remember

Getting an Audience to Remember Your Presentationby Art MarkmanLots of articles about giving good presentations focus on structure and style. Tips focus on theAt... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 10, 2015 at 04:57 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Mobile is the New Front Door

From Think with Google:For Target, Mobile Is the New Front DoorToday, 98% of Target's customers shop digitally, and three-quarters of them start their experience... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 9, 2015 at 04:36 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Decision Scientists Need Game Theory

Good short piece in DSC by William Vorhies, on the interaction of analytics and game theory. And more generally how decisions and risk can be linked to analytical... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 9, 2015 at 02:06 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Linkedin Elevate for Enterprise Content Sharing

Interesting play. Talked to them about this when in the enterprise. My own experience with Linkedin, primarily with Groups and Mail, is that Linkedin has an awkward... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 9, 2015 at 12:54 PM

From insideHPC

ISC 2016 Issues Call for BoFs

ISC 2016 has issued its Call for BoFs. "Like-minded ISC High Performance conference attendees come together in our informal Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions to... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | October 9, 2015 at 11:47 AM

From insideHPC

Pete Beckman Presents: Exascale Architecture Trends

“Argonne National Laboratory is one of the labs helping to lead the exascale push for the nation with the DOE. We lead in a numbers of areas with software and storage... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | October 9, 2015 at 11:28 AM

From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Secular stagnation: we are trimming down

Economists worry that we have entered in a secular stagnation called the Great Stagnation. To summarize: whereas industrial productivity grew steadily for mostContinue... Daniel Lemire
From Daniel Lemire's Blog | October 9, 2015 at 11:03 AM

From insideHPC

With Hazel Hen Cray XC40, HRLS Upgrades to 7.42 Petaflops

HLRS in Stuttgart, Germany has upgraded their Hornet system to Hazel Hen, a 7.42 Petaflop Cray XC40 supercomputer. Twice as fast as its predecessor, Hazel Hen is... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | October 9, 2015 at 10:50 AM

From insideHPC

Maximizing HPC Compute Resources with Minimal Cost

"As HPC resource requirements continue to increase, the need for finding economical solutions to handle the rising requirements increases as well. There are numerous... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | October 9, 2015 at 10:16 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Shopper Time Management

Excellent piece on a favorite topic. Including a number of good discussion comments. My favorite expert on this, Herb Sorensen, sums it up: " .... Excellent... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 9, 2015 at 09:49 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Using Behavioral Data

In Linkedin by Robin CronanUsing Behavioural DataMarketing Datafication No.2 looks at behavioural data and how it can be used to improve targeting, message personalisation... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 9, 2015 at 09:35 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

More Hearable AI: Mycroft

And how about Mycroft? There seems to be a market for hearable/vocal channels to knowledge. and cognitive value. In the enterprise, such systems are likely to... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 9, 2015 at 09:32 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

War on Advertising

A longer look by Adage on the war on advertising, starting with more advanced availability of ad blocking. A move to more to more quality in ads and less trickery... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 9, 2015 at 09:27 AM

From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Call for Nominations for ACM Policy Award

ACM is accepting nominations for the inaugural ACM Policy Award to honor the contributions of an individual, or a small group, who has had a significant impact... Renee Dopplick
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | October 9, 2015 at 08:30 AM

From Schneier on Security

NSA Patents

Details on the patents issued to the NSA.... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | October 9, 2015 at 08:20 AM

From insideHPC

Submit Your 2016 Research Allocation Requests for the Bridges Supercomputer

XSEDE is now accepting 2016 Research Allocation Requests for the Bridges supercomputer. Available starting in January, 2016 at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | October 9, 2015 at 07:00 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

An Inside Look at Being A Computer Science Teacher

Garth Flint is one of my favorite bloggers. Garth teaches computer science in a smallish private Catholic school in Montana. This week he wrote a pair of articles... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | October 9, 2015 at 06:03 AM