Sentiment Analysis
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New Look vs Zara – They don’t compare. #smartretail #data
So I had a lot of fun talking loyalty, data and vouchers and generally dissing social media at Smart Retail last week. And while I enjoyed Adoreboard’s presentation I can stay silent no more, there’s one part I don’t agree with and it’s all to do with that slide on fashion retail. The original blog…
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Loyalty as currency: #blockchain meets @taylorswift13 meets @BurgerKing #loyalty
Loyalty is really about customer control. It’s about crafting, controlling and defining the conversation. The most control of customer loyalty the customer actually has is by leaving and going to another brand. Loyalty plus Currency is about controlling the customer conversation, not just about whether you can interact in certain ways with the brand but…
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My first foray in to #novel #writing with #AI. – #Tensorflow #AI
TL;DR – Quick Summary For all interested writers, authors and creative writing types…. I think it’s fairly safe to assume you’re safe for the time being. Have a good day. Can AI Write Me a Book? First of all, this isn’t really about code it’s just about process. So there are no juicy code snippets…
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Hadoop In NI Hospitals – #WildSundayThoughts #NHS #NI #data #hadoop
Sunday mornings are for tea, The Sunday Times and thinking. And with changes in my daily work routine, all for the better, that’s got me thinking on large scale things with data again. I’ve been thinking about Hadoop a lot again over the last week. “Is it dead?” posts in Quora, Spark 2.0 coming out…
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Show me your data and workings and I might believe you.
The media has done a real good job of jumping on data, data science, big data, Hadoop, Spark and all the rest of the words that associate themselves around the core word, “data”. What I’m finding more and more is that we’re expected to accept what is presented to us as verified and right. Guess…
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Reflections beyond Big Data Week – #bigdata #bdwbelfast
I’ve had some time to reflect on a few things recently, one of which was the Big Data Week Belfast panel. It was a delight to sit with my friend Tom Gray, CTO of Kainos, Adele Marshall director of research at Centre for Statistical Science at Queens University and Padraic Sheerin of the Prudential who…
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Concentrix and the Case For Machine Learning and Tacit Domain Knowledge (#MachineLearning #Spark #Hadoop)
The initial story ran on 20th February in the Independent newspaper, “People in need at risk of losing tax credits after being wrongly accused of cheating“(1). Now a story like this is going to an emotive issue at the best of times as it involves low incomes and the potential removal of money. What it…
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What if @Tesco sells Dunnhumby? #loyalty #data #tesco #dunnhumby
My customer loyalty fascination stems back to 2002 when I worked with Rippledown Solutions (who then became System42 and then Eurdine Behaviour Engine and then rather sadly sank) at a time when Hadoop was a mere glint in a toy elephant’s eye. We got Nector point data ON A CD! Enough for us to tinker…
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An AppStore for #Hadoop ?
It’s been staring me in the face for a while, all the training, advising and talking about this Hadoop thing. It needs an AppStore, a seamless platform for one click installing and running of Hadoop applications within the framework and cluster. Up until now most MapReduce work has been hand coded by in house development…
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All Hail The Single Core #Hadoop Cluster
The commonality with most data projects is that they start with this rather ambiguous, “well, we’ve got this data”, statement. And without a care in the world it’s spin up the Amazon EMR instances, yes instances, and whack all the data up there. The mainstream tech media will focus on the commodity hardware and Yahoo…