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Seth's Blog: Five easy pieces - 0 views

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    You really don't understand a concept until you know what it's made of. The taxonomy of marketing (filled with a bazillion tactics) is murky at best. The tactics are so numerous, expensive and sometimes emotional that we easily focus on the urgent instead of the important. Perhaps we could try a different approach:
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How Many of Us Find Our True Talent? « I'm Not Actually a Geek - 0 views

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    How Many of Us Find Our True Talent?
Roger Chen

Business Analytics: VISUALISATION USING GAME ENGINES - 0 views

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    This is a good introductory article that explains how to adapt game engines visualization to business analytics in mobile devices.
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Many Eyes - 0 views

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    Many Eyes is an IBM site with a goal of making data visualization algorithms and data sets widely available. It is a fantastic place to spend a few hours.
Roger Chen

Business Analytics: The Attention System of the Human Brain - 0 views

  • It is important to understand how the human brain functions in the area attention, at the cognitive and neuronal levels, so we can attempt to replicate these functions in any decision support and business analytics system
  • Data processing and analytics are separate functions that interact
  • Pattern Recognition
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  • Detection
  • Knowing the anatomical reasons for decision support and analytics in brain function gives a higher importance to create decision support systems
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    It is important to understand how the human brain functions in the area attention, at the cognitive and neuronal levels, so we can attempt to replicate these functions in any decision support and business analytics system.
Roger Chen

ACM SIGKDD - 0 views

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    ACM SPecial Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Roger Chen

SIGecom Exchanges - 0 views

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    Newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Group on E-commerce
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How to Maximize Citations « Apperceptual - 0 views

  • Why should we want our papers to be highly cited? I assume here that we want our work to influence other researchers, and that citation count is a reasonable estimate of influence.
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    Why should we want our papers to be highly cited? I assume here that we want our work to influence other researchers, and that citation count is a reasonable estimate of influence.
Roger Chen

Write good papers - 0 views

  • be ambitious.
  • Most papers should make a single point.
  • How is your contribution different from what has been said a thousand times before?
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  • A sexy start: tell the reader early why he should read your paper. Don’t summarize, sell! A good abstract answers the question why should I read this paper?,
  • 5. What a good paper should not contain Weak unnecessary results: if you derived ten theorems but only one is necessary, throw the rest of them in your drawers. I do not want to know about useless results! Technical details: technical papers made of several small ideas are usually not interesting.
Roger Chen

How to Write a Scientific Paper - 0 views

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    Annals of Improbable Research, Vol. 2, No. 5, pg. 8.
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Taking action : business|bytes|genes|molecules - 0 views

  • when we build software for scientists, we should think about what they would do with the returned information. That’s where context is really important as well. I’ve seen too many examples where the user is offered options that make no sense for what you want to achieve.
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    So when we build software for scientists, we should think about what they would do with the returned information. That's where context is really important as well. I've seen too many examples where the user is offered options that make no sense for what you want to achieve.
Roger Chen

The Internet Is a Brain - Jeff Stibel - 0 views

  • Let’s get concrete about what I mean here. The brain is one of the most complex networks in the world, with more neurons than there are stars in the galaxy. Its hardware is a complex network of neurons; its software a complex network of memories. And so too is the Internet a network. Its hardware is a complex network of computers; its software a complex network of websites. There is a lot we can learn from the brain and it can tell us where the Internet is headed next.
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