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IBM Researcher Can Decipher Your Personality From Looking at 200 of Your Tweets
October 17, 2013
An IBM researcher says she can make a good educated guess about your personality just from looking at 200 of your Twitter messages. That may seem obvious, as people typically express their personalities through the 140-character messaging service. But Michelle Zhou, a researcher at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., can do this personality analysis in a disciplined and automated fashion using the science of data analytics. Companies that pay attention to this research could...
October 17, 2013
An IBM researcher says she can make a good educated guess about your personality just from looking at 200 of your Twitter messages. That may seem obvious, as people typically express their personalities through the 140-character messaging service. But Michelle Zhou, a researcher at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., can do this personality analysis in a disciplined and automated fashion using the science of data analytics. Companies that pay attention to this research could...
Algorithm Writes People’s Life Histories Using Twitter Stream
October 10, 2013
If you tweet about your life, a new algorithm can identify your most significant events and assemble them into an accurate...
October 10, 2013
If you tweet about your life, a new algorithm can identify your most significant events and assemble them into an accurate...
Hummingbird Will Make Google Searches Hum
October 6, 2013
Meet Hummingbird: Google Just Revamped Search To Answer Your Long Questions Better - Forbes. Has it been 15 years since Google entered our vocabulary and our lives? The new search engine algorithm from Google, code named Hummingbird, won't be noticeable to most of us. However, your searches will be much faster and better, and Google will be able to better understand the rambling searches we create.
October 6, 2013
Meet Hummingbird: Google Just Revamped Search To Answer Your Long Questions Better - Forbes. Has it been 15 years since Google entered our vocabulary and our lives? The new search engine algorithm from Google, code named Hummingbird, won't be noticeable to most of us. However, your searches will be much faster and better, and Google will be able to better understand the rambling searches we create.
How High Performers Compete – and Win – with Analytics #IKNS
October 5, 2013
NOTES: Lessons from Peter Drucker. Jeanne Harris had the privilege of working with Peter Drucker early in her career. Here are some of the data-related lessons she learned from him: Look for patterns. Analytics help reveal patterns, which in turn reveal what is happening below the surface of the organization. Don’t settle for just a single insight. Businesses are complicated animals so it is rare for a single insight to explain everything about an organization. Look for several insights...
October 5, 2013
NOTES: Lessons from Peter Drucker. Jeanne Harris had the privilege of working with Peter Drucker early in her career. Here are some of the data-related lessons she learned from him: Look for patterns. Analytics help reveal patterns, which in turn reveal what is happening below the surface of the organization. Don’t settle for just a single insight. Businesses are complicated animals so it is rare for a single insight to explain everything about an organization. Look for several insights...
5 Things To Know About Analytics in the World of Commerce
October 5, 2013
The customer - thanks to advances in technology (digital, social, and mobile) - has become the center of the commerce universe. In order for enterprises to attract and retain customers they must provide access to their product information across multiple channels. The real trick is truly knowing the customer and customizing communication with that customer to their particular needs and wants. That is where the power of analytics comes in. 1. Customer satisfaction is very important 2. Sellers want...
October 5, 2013
The customer - thanks to advances in technology (digital, social, and mobile) - has become the center of the commerce universe. In order for enterprises to attract and retain customers they must provide access to their product information across multiple channels. The real trick is truly knowing the customer and customizing communication with that customer to their particular needs and wants. That is where the power of analytics comes in. 1. Customer satisfaction is very important 2. Sellers want...
How Google Converted Language Translation Into a Problem of Vector Space Mathematics
October 4, 2013
Computer science is changing the nature of the translation of words and sentences from one language to another. Anybody who has tried BabelFish or Google...
October 4, 2013
Computer science is changing the nature of the translation of words and sentences from one language to another. Anybody who has tried BabelFish or Google...
The Impact of Local Patent Rules on Rate and Timing of Case Resolution Relative to Claim Construction: An Empirical Study of the Past Decade
October 4, 2013
“FAs recognition of the value of patents has increased dramatically over the past decade, so too has the amount of litigation...
October 4, 2013
“FAs recognition of the value of patents has increased dramatically over the past decade, so too has the amount of litigation...
TyMetrix MatterAnalyzer Helps Lawyers Set Billing Rates
September 29, 2013
As lawyers face greater pressure from clients to keep their rates and costs down, any bit of information about what the competition is up to is valuable. A new legal metrics program from TyMetrix hopes to make it easier for law firms and legal departments to determine pricing and performance benchmarks by telling them what others have done in the past. In a Tuesday, Sept. 24 press release TyMetrix unveiled MatterAnalyzer, a web-based tool that helps users make more informed decisions about rates,...
September 29, 2013
As lawyers face greater pressure from clients to keep their rates and costs down, any bit of information about what the competition is up to is valuable. A new legal metrics program from TyMetrix hopes to make it easier for law firms and legal departments to determine pricing and performance benchmarks by telling them what others have done in the past. In a Tuesday, Sept. 24 press release TyMetrix unveiled MatterAnalyzer, a web-based tool that helps users make more informed decisions about rates,...
Nate Silver Predicts That You, Too, Can Be A Data Master
September 29, 2013
Everybody has a crush on Nate Silver. The statistician-author-blogger calls elections and awards with titillating accuracy--and from what he's said before, it's mostly gut feeling. Thankfully HBR.org had the guts to ask him why. So let's learn how to have the stomach ourselves. TO GET DATA LITERATE QUICK, FIRST GET DIRTY. Silver's thoughts on getting good with data echo back to earlier findings on unstoppability: It's about getting as experienced, rather than knowledgeable, as quickly...
September 29, 2013
Everybody has a crush on Nate Silver. The statistician-author-blogger calls elections and awards with titillating accuracy--and from what he's said before, it's mostly gut feeling. Thankfully HBR.org had the guts to ask him why. So let's learn how to have the stomach ourselves. TO GET DATA LITERATE QUICK, FIRST GET DIRTY. Silver's thoughts on getting good with data echo back to earlier findings on unstoppability: It's about getting as experienced, rather than knowledgeable, as quickly...
US Military Scientists Solve the Fundamental Problem of Viral Marketing
September 25, 2013
Viral messages begin life by infecting a few individuals and then start to spread across a network. The most infectious end up contaminating...
September 25, 2013
Viral messages begin life by infecting a few individuals and then start to spread across a network. The most infectious end up contaminating...
