What Your Spreadsheet Can’t Tell You: The Hidden Financial Value of Human Conversation

This ladies have a positive talk. If it is a a sales talk, everything might be good. Maybe the computer helped with automated product proposals

If a customer walks out of your store without buying, looking at the security camera footage won’t tell you why. You can analyze the video (Data) all day, but you will never know if they left because the price was too high, or because the music was too loud. To find out, you have to … Read more

Why finding trends using only observation often leads to false conclusions

Human and artificial intelligence observe the environment. Observations are interpreted and used for finding trends and experiences are processed and result in learning experiences. Humans learn social behavior by observing their fellow humans; animals learn where food is, how to behave in a herd, and where dangers are present. Learning can be dangerous. If the … Read more

Forecasting and Storytelling – our personal history and decision taking

Memories of the past and buying, investing and other decisions

Asked for predictions and future trends, younger people and elders forecast a different future. The judgement is based on past experiences, where the elders had a longer time to watch. Now there is research which uses stock market predictions and inflation expectation taken from surveys to measure different estimations of future values in age groups. … Read more