Yes, and I was sad that he was wrong about that half of the equation. I wonder how analytics can take into account things like bad calls (not saying that happened in the Seahawks game), though. There were plenty of those in this weird football season!
If you get tired of this writing game, Sharon, you may have created a whole new subset of the fantasy sports sector! There are certainly plenty of stats n' facts out there! Let me know when you begin the fantasy softball league; maybe my hard-slugging, SS/secondbase daughter will be interested.
So far, he has a chance of being 50/50 right, but (sadly), the Seahawks lost yesterday. Silver reportedly had them down as one of the two Superbowl teams. His other prediction, New England, is a pretty easy one to make. No offense to NE fans--I don't like the Pats at all -- but am 99.99% sure they'll be playing (and probably winning).
I really feel that growing up with video games has prepared my quick-twitch reactions on a computer for the IT field. Workers a generation older than me can use computers, but they don't have the same organizational and user interface speed with these devices that I have noticed I have.
There's nothing wrong with that: the older generation has more work experience than I do, and they bring different skills to the table. I can't wait for what the next generation can bring to the workplace.
I really feel that growing up with video games has prepared my quick-twitch reactions on a computer for the IT field. Workers a generation older than me can use computers, but they don't have the same organizational and user interface speed with these devices that I have noticed I have.
There's nothing wrong with that: the older generation has more work experience than I do, and they bring different skills to the table. I can't wait for what the next generation can bring to the workplace.
When I talk about the value of creative play, I mean something deeper than gamification, or cooperation, or learning certain skills during a game that will be applicable elsewhere. I'm talking about the value of simply exercising the mind. We seem to undervalue that as a society; we look for some external, additional benefit. The only benefits necessary are that it's pleasurable, and people are thinking.
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I've been writing about how the next evolution of the Internet might just be an advertising revolution, and how corporate IT can stay involved as the enablers and providers of the technologies that make this possible.
In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.
The smartphone market reached a significant milestone, a breakthrough that may cause vendors to celebrate but could strain the capabilities of IT service desks.
In the fall of 2011, around 160,000 students in 190 countries enrolled in a Stanford-sponsored online course about artificial intelligence. About 23,000 completed the course and got certificates, including 248 who got a perfect score. The university offered the same course the old-fashioned way to students sitting in Stanford classrooms. None of the those students got a perfect score.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
