Data Mining Improved Company’s Revenue By 187%
Assurant Solutions sells insurance policies on credit card payments, for example if you lose your job or become disabled. Their…
Cities Get Smarter with IBM’s Location-based Analytics
Cities Get Smarter with IBM's Location-based Analytics:IBM is announcing Smarter Cities projects in Wilmington, N.C., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and new…
Design Goals for Developing Distributed Applications
In my last post (Wide open spaces) we discussed the elegance of using space based architecture platforms based on their…
The Case Against Triage
In an episode of the popular American TV show ER, an alcoholic patient with political connections is moved to the…
Data Darwinism: Market Driven Data Quality
Just trying a little contrarian thought this week … Have you ever noticed how much time and energy goes in…
Is Watson less efficient than a human?
When it comes to computing efficiency, humans beings blow Watson away. As Jonah Lehrer points out, the human brain requires…
Dear Watson: What is life?
Scouring Twitter for Watson stuff, I just came across some deep questions for the machine from @larrylugo, such as:
Good Data: The CFO’s Ultimate Challenge
Consistent, correct data. That doesn’t sound too complicated, does it?
A Judgement of Watson: Mathematics Wins!
Tom Davenport argues in this HBR article Why I'm Pulling for Watson - Tom Davenport - Harvard Business Review that
