Today I visited with Ellen Ensel, Anand Vaghese, and Christopher Neu at United States Institute of Peace. Yes, you are reading it right. You have heard a lot about Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security, but never about…
Personal Analytics
Analytics has emerged as a powerful tool to make important decisions in many areas most notably in enterprise decision making. Marketing to strategy to credit risk assessment and fraud analyis, analytics is being used for minimizing risk in decision analysis…
Solution: Consolidation of experiences and making them actionable
A really good trend is that many companies are developing systems that take experience of one kind and allow people to create, store, share, and revisit experience of that kind. They also provide some search and analytical funstionality. Given a…
Need: Consolidation of experiences and making them actionable
Paradoxically, the tremendous progress in mobile and internet technology has given rise to numerous sources of information and experiences but has also resulted in large volume of unmanageable data. Currently, our life information and experiences are distributed and isolated in…
Events: Descriptions and Opinions
In dealing with events where humans are involved in providing data, one must distinguish between descriptions and opinions. Descriptions are supposed to be unbiased, factual and report facts about the event. Being incomplete is acceptable for a description, but being…