March 2012
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How industry leaders get prepared
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Today’s leading enterprises apply scientific methods to their social business activities – continuously harvesting the data associated with the process of establishing & maintaining relationships across the customer-set.
Via Business Analytics Blog
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More than tree hugging: Green companies earn more... →
Using LEED-certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) buildings increases revenue generated by bank branches even when they offer the same products and services, according to a new study co-authored by University of Notre Dame management professors Edward Conlon and Ante Glavas.
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“Luckily, as the need for geographic literacy has increased, digital cartography...”
– Introduction to open-source GIS tools for journalists | Resources | Data Driven Journalism (via davidandrewjohnson)
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To feed another 2 billion people, the world will... →
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Just one of the food-and-water facts from the campaign organizers at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.
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IBM’s Jeopardy Machine Dons Lab Coat at World’s... →
Doctors at New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center will soon be getting a second opinion on how to treat cancer patients, thanks to IBM’s Watson supercomputer. Sloan Kettering’s Dr. Mark Kris learned about Watson while watching Jeopardy last year, but he didn’t initially see a way to use it in his clinic. “The connection came when I learned that Watson could...
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Buddhism and The Internet of Things « Wireless... →
In a very near future there will be an invisible web linking together human beings, physical objects and their virtual representations in an information network. The size of the Internet of Things will be enormous: Ericsson predicts 50 billion devices connected to the Internet in 2020. But we have already passed the threshold in which there are more devices connected to the Internet than there are...
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IBM 'Smart Solutions' Predict Fraud, Risk,... →
IBM announced Tuesday three IBM Smarter Analytics Signature Solutions that blend multiple analytic products, proven models and algorithms, and supporting services from IBM Global Business Services (GBS) to address fraud-detection, risk-analysis, and customer-insight scenarios.
The idea is to tackle high-profile business challenges where C-level executives and line-of-business customers want to...
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New and inexpensive genomics method takes off |... →
Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS), a powerful new technique developed at Cornell, is leveling the playing field in genomics research. Less than a year after publication, it is being applied to answer questions about diverse species, including hops, fox, turf grass, maize, cow, tomato and raspberry.
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WatchCatch the replay of the Smarter Analytics Summit. And learn more about Big Blue’s Big Data initiative in some of these stories:
Big Data: How Infinity Sniffs Out Insurance Fraud
Big Data: The New Natural Resources
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How Online Education Is Changing the Way We Learn →
Via visualoop:
“The principal reason for this, I think, is that educational systems are...”
– The New Rules Of Innovation: Bottom-Up Solutions To Top-Down Problems | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
TheFuturesAgency: The Future Of Reading Is Tablets →
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According to a new survey by the Pearson Foundation, the majority of U.S. college students now prefer reading digitally, for both studying and for “fun” reading. Other factors:
57% preferred digital for fun reading
58% preferred digital for textbook reading
25% of US college students own a…
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IBM Unveils New Analysis Packages →
IBM has unveiled three packages of services and software to help organizations analyze their data for profit and improved efficiency.
The signature solutions, as IBM calls these offerings, go beyond generic analysis software to address three different specific tasks: detecting financial fraud, predicting consumer behavior and estimating financial risk.
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“Digital sensors are the new big thing. As reported in the New York Times, these...”
– ‘Internet of Things’ will tap anything, everything | Vancouver Courier
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Smarter Planet | Visual.ly
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Smartphones more accurate, faster, cheaper for... →
Smartphones are showing promise in disease surveillance in the developing world.
Smartphone use was cheaper than traditional paper survey methods to gather disease information (after the initial set-up cost), researchers at the Kenya Ministry of Health and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found in a study.
Survey data collected with smartphones also had fewer errors and were...
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SXSW Interactive: The Comedown - NYTimes.com →
The Future of Social Media: Apps like Kismet, Glancee, Ban.jo and Highlight, which help people meet others nearby, were the talk of the town. It is not yet clear whether they will be a real success. But ambient discovery — tapping into rich and invisible layers of data to turn the smartphone into a kind of dowsing rod that can discover interesting things nearby — is a theme that is not likely to...
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Is Technology Making Us More Human? | Smarter... →
This week at Gartner 360, I am presenting an overview of how companies must embrace the use of digital, social and mobile technologies to create and deliver new sources of value to meet the needs of today’s empowered consumer. We often discuss the forces of digital, mobile and social as transformational, as they strip away the boundaries of time, distance, and mobility that have constrained...
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“Tablet adoption is increasing among corporate tech buyers. ChangeWave Research...”
– Tablet Adoption Surging in Enterprise - John Paczkowski - Enterprise - AllThingsD
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