James Taylor, author of Smart (Enough) Systems and an expert on the analytics frontier of business decision management, shares a brief story on the growing role that deep data and business optimization can play in something as familiar and urban as package delivery services. You can follow him on Twitter @jamet123
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…IBM is also partnering with New York-based Tumblr to launch the Smarter Cities Scan, a social media project in crowdsourced research and open knowledge exchange. The initiative is using advanced IBM analytics technology to scan participants’ input to build a public blueprint for Smarter Cities. The output will be available to cities and grass-roots groups to use as a foundation for projects to make urban centers smarter via a Smarter Cities Open Model. IBM will also leverage this open model via the IBM Business Analytics Center in New York and the other centers around the world.
The emergence of new smarter systems which are interconnected and streaming real time information are presenting business and governments with a unique opportunity to transform decision making. New opportunities to use this data to predict business outcomes, optimize old systems and spot trends before they happen are actually a reality. IBM’s new service line, IBM Business Analytics and Optimization Services will draw on the company’s deep expertise in vertical industries, research, mathematics and information management to help clients both improve the speed and quality of business decisions while better understanding the consequences and business outcomes of those decisions.
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As new ways of analysing the world around us are developed, new ways to visualise that information are needed. The recent Eurovis Symposium, held in Berlin, brought together international researchers with new ideas about how to make data easier to interpret and act on.
This map shows a day of shipping traffic near Rotterdam, on the Netherlands coast. Software processes the continuous data ships feed to coastguards to show individual traces of each vessel. Darker traces signifiy slower speeds, and colour coding shows the density of traffic in different areas.
The sea lanes in the area can be clearly seen. Traffic is densest in the bottom right, very close to Rotterdam harbour.
Bionic Eye is a new application specifically developed for the iPhone 3GS that enables you to visualize subway stations and Points of Interest (POI) located in your nearby environment, thanks to a unique Augmented Reality functionality using the iPhone camera. This application is available on AppStore. (via presselite)
IBM on Tuesday launched software that navigates data from sensors and triggers automated business responses. The software, dubbed WebSphere Sensor Events, aggregates data from sensors that monitor air quality, traffic, water flow, energy usage and other items via RFID tags. IBM reckons that there will be six billion RFID tags in circulation by 2010. These sensors throw off a lot of data—too much in fact. IBM’s software aims to capture the data and run it through an enterprise’s business process and analytics systems. Once the data was analyzed an enterprise could react to incoming data and adjust accordingly.
