Product managers often A/B test their innovations, before releasing them for the standard user experience. Whether this is complete redesign of a UI layout or for a specific new login mechanism, various product developments undergo A/B testing before rollout. This way you can prove that the new experience is preferred over the old. But, have…
GDC was an incredible experience. It was immense, bright, and frenetic; exactly what you would want at a conference highlighting some of the most innovative technology in the gaming industry. Many of the vendors and booths were spectacular and warranted the long lines and anticipation. Wandering the maze of booths and exhibits, it was apparent…
We have a webinar coming up! Hear how Pandora is using anomaly detection and get some great insights from 451 research! I am so excited about the upcoming webinar, this Wednesday, at 9:00 a.m. PDT, “AI-Based Anomaly Detection for Proactive Business Monitoring.“ And guess what? We want you to attend. Here are 5 good reasons…
The Game Developers Conference starts this week (March 21-23 in San Francisco, CA), and I’m looking forward to hearing the many perspectives on key trends in the gaming industry, and making new friends within the industry. The Game Developers Conference is a great place to learn from leaders in the gaming world, and gain insight…
Recently, Mike Ryan put out an interesting post at Uproxx where he dared anyone to explain the Return of the Jedi’s “rescue Han Solo” plan that happens in the first act of the film. Basically he was sitting around with a bunch of friends talking Star Wars, and he tossed out the question: if Luke’s…
In the latest trailer for Wreck-it Ralph 2, Ralph plays a game on a little girl’s tablet that lets him feed pancakes to a bunny and milkshakes to a cat. When his friend Vanellope shows up with a cart full of pancakes, Ralph starts feeding the bunny pancakes like crazy, fattening him up to comically…
Your company might process terabytes of data every day – but no matter how much your data grows, your BI dashboard falls behind. Dashboards visualizations don’t capture the full scope of business data, and they don’t update in real time. In the end, the data analysts relying on dashboards for business decisions, spend most of…
9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the 2008 credit crisis, the BP Gulf oil spill in 2010, and the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami that put the Fukashima nuclear facility offline. These are all recent examples of what are known as Black Swan events, incidents that occur randomly and unexpectedly and have wide-spread ramifications. Black Swans are a…
A tiger in the bathroom. A baby. A missing tooth. The groom is gone! These were just some of the surprises that the wolf pack woke up to in the movie The Hangover. The guys figure that if they can just piece together what happened the night before, then they can find the groom and…
Several industries, most notably manufacturing, have seen robotics and automation disrupt their production operations, leading to the loss of even highly skilled individuals. Likewise, there’s concern over how artificial intelligence could affect millions of jobs. As environmental parameters change, will machines come to mimic the “rational thinking” of a human brain and alter their reactions?…
Whether you’re in it for the game or the commercials, the excitement around the Super Bowl draws people of all ages, all around the world to their screens – many different screens. All that excitement produces a mountain of data. Just as there are few subjects in our world where stats and data are discussed…
In business, few surprises are good. When you learn that, for example, a business process error has been preventing customers from completing their orders for over a week, you probably won’t be happy. You’ve just tripped over an “unknown unknown – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.” The term, Unknown Unknowns, attributed to…