Netflix: A Personalized Viewing Experience
Netflix is a best-in-class example of the use of data in the media industry.
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Google AlphaGo: How a recreational program will change the world
AlphaGo program shocked the world by defeating Lee Sedol, the world champion in Go. This post talks about how Google used data and algorithms to achieve this and how a seemingly recreational program will create and capture value for Google
Tableau Software – Unlocking Insights in Data
In a world with no shortage of data, Tableau Software offers an incredible product to quickly analyze large data sets and rapidly produce high-quality visualizations.
VIBE – Analyzing Morale in the Modern Age
You used to have to walk the halls of your company to understand morale. No longer.
ZARA: Achieving the “Fast” in Fast Fashion through Analytics
How does fast fashion make any business sense? Zara uses intensive data and analytics to manage a tight supply chain and give customers exactly what they want.
Self-Driving Ships?
Rolls-Royce is using Big Data to make ships smarter and eventually drive themselves
Stitch Fix: Your Ideal Fashions are IN the Computer (yes, that’s a Zoolander joke)
Do you ever wonder whether you’ll actually use any of the lessons we’re learning at HBS? Katrina Lake’s usage of data and deployment of machine learning at Stitch Fix, proves that paying attention in class pays off.
How Splunk could make the vision of a seamless user experience in the IoT world come true??
Splunk today helps organizations to streamline their operations and to provide a better end user experience via machine data management. It could be the enabler of the Cognitive Devices-as-a-Service future by its intelligent capture, indexing and analytics of machine data.
Legendary Applied Analytics: Making Movies the ‘Moneyball’ Way
How big data and analytics can change the traditional movie industry, and how far it can go?
Google Maps – the most expansive data machine
Over the years Google Maps have collected Billion of bytes of data to map the entire world. Increasing penetration of GPS-enabled smartphone has fueled Google’s appetite for data even further and it is putting all that data to good use.