Last week I wrote a post evaluating AWS Rekognition accuracy in finding people in images. The analysis was performed using the Neo4j graph database. As I noted in the original post – Rekognition is either very confident it has identified a person or not confident at all. This leads to an enormous number of false… Continue reading AWS Rekognition Graph Analysis – Person Label Accuracy
Category: Experimentation
Data is the currency of your Digital Transformation
This is a scary time for a company. But the state of play creates the potential for mass and creative disruption. — $1 Billion for Dollar Shave Club: Why Every Company Should Worry @ NYTimes Every company is a digital company. No longer is it a question of if your product will become digital – as… Continue reading Data is the currency of your Digital Transformation
Talking Big Data with IBM’s Jeff Jonas
I saw this on TechCrunch earlier today and thought it was an awesome add to my big data series. Jeff Jonas is clearly a big thinker and I agree with almost everything he says. The only thing I take issue with is the recurring theme in this interview that Big Data is primarily about commerce… Continue reading Talking Big Data with IBM’s Jeff Jonas
Let’s Get Serious – Social Media ROI
I’m honestly heartened by the sudden rash of efforts to create a methodology to determine ROI (return on investment) for Social Media efforts. It signals something very important for Social Media – the return of rationality to the debate. When you consider that a few short months ago the prevailing meme was that creating a… Continue reading Let’s Get Serious – Social Media ROI
Open Push Email
People are obsessed with making their email “broadcast”. Push email is a big deal… but sadly it means you have to lock yourself into a single email service from a single provider. You want near real-time push email… Blackberry or Exchange… or you can pretty much forget about it. So, why can’t we have an… Continue reading Open Push Email
I LOVE Statistics – What is Great on Twitter? Apparently Watchmen…
I was poking around in the data coming back from What is Great On Twitter – because, well I’m a geek and I love statistics. I looked at iPhone vs. Blackberry; Apple vs. Microsoft; and TweetDeck vs. Twhirl. All very interesting, I assure you. But then I decided to see the buzz about Watchmen –… Continue reading I LOVE Statistics – What is Great on Twitter? Apparently Watchmen…
What Do People Think is Great? A justSignal Experiment
More than any other word “innovator” describes me best. I’m not saying I’m Steve Jobs – I’m just saying I’m constantly fascinated by new, interesting combinations of ideas that add value. This morning – as I watched the Follow Friday Tweets FLY by on the justSignal tracker I began to wonder… Wouldn’t it be great… Continue reading What Do People Think is Great? A justSignal Experiment
justSignal Demo 09 Demo – Have your data and eat it too!
On February 25th I put up a justSignal Tracker for Demo 09. I had fun today watching the tracker (you can find it here) reel off all the tweets about Demo and the presentations as they happened. With all due respect to Demo and Facebook the experience with the Facebook Connect widget was, by comparison,… Continue reading justSignal Demo 09 Demo – Have your data and eat it too!
Follow Friday – a justSignal Experiment
UPDATE 5:11PM AZ Time – I added a list of frequent Follow Friday tweeters. You can find it after the jump/at the bottom of the post. Yesterday a little birdie told me that Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester Research (@jowyang on Twitter) was looking for a way to figure out who gets recommended the most on… Continue reading Follow Friday – a justSignal Experiment
Demo 09 – Track the Event on Twitter
As you all may (or may not) know justSignal creates creates solutions that allow you to track specific contexts (subjects, events or topics) on Social Media. Our current widget is focused on Twitter (and why not), with FriendFeed, Google Blog Search and Blog Comments (via Backtype and Disqus) coming after SXSW. With Demo coming up… Continue reading Demo 09 – Track the Event on Twitter