article thumbnail

Mentally Challenged - Was It Bad Hardware, Bad Software or Bad Data?

Building Personal Strength

She asked the cashier to remove $10 worth of merchandise. And rather than electricity, your brain computer is powered by neurotransmitter chemicals, which produce a valence. That's when the woman turned around and looked at me in shock. Apparently she hadn't paid yet. I kept my shock to myself. And paying would turn out to be an issue.

article thumbnail

Use Big Data to Predict Your Customers' Behaviors

Harvard Business Review

For example, retailers like Wal-Mart and Kohl's are making use of sales, pricing, and economic data, combined with demographic and weather data, to fine-tune merchandising store by store and anticipate appropriate timing of store sales. The net of all this is hardly a cold quantitative world.