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#machine learning #tensorflow #javascript

J.Crew’s Mickey Drexler Confesses: I Underestimated How Tech Would Upend Retail read the headline of a big feature in the Wall Street Journal, which ricocheted around the retail and technology world last week. The piece highlighted J.Crew's struggles under Drexler's leadership, which has resulted in ten consecutive quarters of falling sales. Yet the struggles of J.Crew, Gap, Ralph Lauren, Abercrombie & Fitch, American Apparel and many others goes beyond the simple explanation that they missed the impact of technology or a specific trend.

#mickey drexler #supply chain #disruption #supply and demand

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A model of the soft systems method marcswales

V-blog: A big data architecture works to provide better search, personalized content, and greater revenue for online publishers.

#publishing #big data

Introduction to semantic web technologies

It’s a difficult area due to get your head around, in part due to the amount of technologies that comprise the semantic web. However there are good tutorials out there.

Cambridge Semantics has an excellent introduction to the various components of the semantic web: https://www.cambridgesemantics.com/semantic-university/getting-started-semantics.

Open HPI, a MOOC, also offers an online course which is happening now and is free and open to anyone to enroll. This course is a bit more indepth and would require some previous knowledge of the semantic web if you were to get the most out of it: https://open.hpi.de/courses/semanticweb2015.

#semantic web #beginner #introduction #tutorial

data science glossary

#data science

#semantic web #microformat #seo

This video introduces the viewer to some API concepts by making example calls to Facebook's Graph API, Google Maps' API, Instagram's Media Search API, and Tw...

Provides a brief introduction to what is an API and what is REST.

#REST #API

A Reuters report claims that Apple Inc. experience difficulty in attracting the best new minds in data science due to restrictive data retention policies

#news

Situation AnalysisNever a day goes by without the issue of "Data" and "Semantics" popping up. Unfortunately, characterization of the aforementioned items ultimately confuse rather than clarify the important topic at hand. What is Data? I've published a detailed presentation on this topic on slideshare [1]. Basically, Data is how we express observation (what we experience) in reusable form. Actual data representation ultimately takes the form of entity relationships, inscribed to documents using a variety of notations, and then persisted using a variety

#data #semantic