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Weekend warriors rejoice: sensors to improve your game

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Yes, it’d be fair to say I have vacation on the brain. This week’s active info post:

“Over the years, I’ve highlighted many interesting, and even oddball, usages of sensor technology, from cow containment to mollusc-based oil spill detection. As my writing is directed at a business audience, I tend to highlight the commercial nodes on the ever-expanding internet of things.

Not today though. It is summer, after all. And like most, summer brings out my weekend sports warrior. Thing is, I’m not that talented. My golf outings would be better described as a watersport. My high school tennis prowess is long gone. And I have no foot-eye coordination.

But, there is hope for me…”

read: Weekend sports warriors: Improve your game, via se… – Input Output.

Data analysis issue, or data collection issue?

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The research explored in my latest active information post caught the attention of my inner retailer, figuring out why customers do the things they do:

“…Sifting, cleansing and connecting disparate pieces of data to unearth a clue or two to customer behavior. Think click-stream analysis. And in the case of multichannel businesses, follow-on activities to correlate in-store visits, customer service calls and such.

That’s a significant amount of up-front time and effort. Compounding the issue, the shortage of data explorers is well documented. No wonder organizations are focusing on data collection and procrastinating on data discovery.

But perhaps, the big problem of big data isnt one of analyzing the data stockpiles. Rather, the problem is in our data collection techniques and scoping…”

Read the post: Customer behavior data: better collection, better … – Input Output.

Link Collection — August 5, 2012

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  • The Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems – Technology Review

    Totally agree with this statement: “The key thriving in an increasingly complex world is to develop a nuanced, stable theory of interoperability.”

    We need to switch our thinking to systems-of-systems, in which information flow, interoperability, change, systemic implications and dot-connecting are key.

    But, as the commenters say, I’m not sure I could make my way through the book either… 

    tags: systems systemsofsystems interop

  • Big Data Presents Oppurtunities and Costs – The CIO Report – WSJ

    Agreed: data is inherently messy

    “But because Big Data requires companies to accumulate increasing amounts of data, even free software like Hadoop is causing companies to spend more money. According to Rubin, whose clients include several of the world’s largest banks, many CIOs believe data is inexpensive because storage has become inexpensive. But data is inherently messy – it can be wrong, it can be duplicative, and it can be irrelevant – which means it requires handling, which is where the real expenses come in. “The cost of more data is the application and the computing power and the processes to reconcile all these things,” Rubin said.”

    tags: bigdata cio wsj rubin

  • Why Procrastination is Good for You | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine

    “Much recent research about decisions helps us understand what we should do or how we should do it, but it says little about when,” he says.

    In his new book, Wait: The Art and Science of Delay, Partnoy claims that when faced with a decision, we should assess how long we have to make it, and then wait until the last possible moment to do so.

    tags: procrastination delay

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