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Twitter And Knowledge Discovery

You can discover four types of Knowledge (from Twitter). The classification is inspired by Bloom’s Taxonomy. Factual Knowledge Conceptual and Meta Knowledge Let us briefly look at each type with a couple of examples. Factual Knowledge- Some observations You get

Posted in Infostreams, InfoTools, Intelligence, twitter

They Don’t Have Problem Finding Food so Spend the Bulk of the Time Talking to Each Other

I was listening to this podcast titled Cognitive Fire – The Language: A Cultural Tool. What caught my attention was Daniel’s statement: They live along the Amazon river, close to the water. They fish and eat. Since they have a

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Posted in Intelligence, Reflections

The Element: On Common Sense, Imagination, Creativity and Finding Our Element

If you are intensely curious about the relationship between  Creativity, Imagination, Flow, Intelligence and Finding your passion, The Element by Ken Robinson is a must read. Ever since I first heard Ken Robinson’s TED talk, I was hooked to his

Posted in Creativity, Ideas, Imagination, Intelligence, Reflections

Analyzing Unstructured Content

I am reading the UIMA overview document.  It is a fascinating description of an architecture for analyzing unstructured documents. In analyzing unstructured content, UIMA based  applications make use of a variety of analysis technologies including: • Statistical and rule-based Natural Language Processing

Posted in Analytics, Ideas, Information Discovery, Infostreams, Intelligence, Ontologies

LinkLog: Information Discovery

If you run any kind of organization you need information from which you can derive actionable intelligence. Parts of gathering information can be automated, reducing the amount of effort you may need to scan your environment. This article is about

Posted in Analytics, imorph, Intelligence

Causes of Failures

In his book , Early Warning: Using Competitive Intelligence to Anticipate Market Shifts, Control Risk, and Create Powerful Strategies, Benjamin Gilad talks about causes of failure. Sticking to obsolete internal conviction even though the market evidence points otherwise, seems to be

Posted in imorph, Information Discovery, Intelligence

Why Do You Need Market Intelligence?

What a great Market Intelligence Managers do: “Some of the greatest challenges facing CEOs and global organizations today are understanding market growth, identifying new business opportunities, facing new competition and managing changing customer needs. The best market intelligence managers are

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Posted in Analytics, Information Discovery, Intelligence

Tip: How Do You Find An Influencer?

I assume, you know,  why you want to find an influencer. I actually don’t like that term “influencer” and would like to  use some synonyms like evangelist, thought leader, expert, expert blogger/columnist, curator.  So let us say we want to

Posted in Ideas, Information Discovery, Intelligence, People, Social Media, Social Networks

Exploring Information

At iMorph, we build tools to discover, gather and explore information. Here is one prototype we are playing with. It takes three publications and analyzes the top terms (we chose bigrams – pairs of words). Each tag cloud is build

Posted in Analytics, Ideas, imorph, InfoAssistants, Information Discovery, Infostreams, Intelligence, Knowledge

Modeling Intelligence

“Intelligence is a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience.” — editorial in the journal Intelligence signed by 52 cognitive

Posted in Ideas, imorph, Intelligence
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