Smarter, healthier, more productive: how Uptake is revolutionizing heavy industries with AI+IoT
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Dreambox Learning – A teaching assistant for every student in your math class.
DreamBox Learning is an intelligent, adaptive learning platform that sources data points to adjust instruction instantly and provide reports for teachers, parents, and administrators. Will this technology replace teachers or will it be adopted as a compliment or a tool to help teachers?
Burger King: Leveraging data to guide decisions and enrich the customer experience
While most cases at HBS treat Burger King as McDonald's eternal rival, there's a new reason why the competition has increased in the 21st century. By turning details about customer transactions, preferences, and purchasing patterns into actionable insights, Burger King drives business decisions with the power of data analytics. Is McDonald's simply going to rest on its laurels, or will it use a trojan horse strategy to stay ahead?
23andMe, who does it profit?
Combining data analytics and healthcare raises interesting questions of ethics. In a context where consumer data are an increasingly valuable currency globally and concerns for individual privacy becomes widespread, what is 23andMe’s situation?
Kreditech: Loans based on Facebook posts?
By using new data sources and employing up-to-date machine learning technology, online loan provider Kreditech hopes to better understand applicant’s financial situation and personality.
Esri and ArcGIS
ABOUT ESRI Growing out of research conducted at the Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics, Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri from here on) was founded as a land-use consulting firm in 1969 with a mere $1,100 of seed capital from founders […]
Cargill: Revolutionizing Dairy Farming with Magic Big Data
Cargill, a world-leading agriculture conglomerate, has empowered dairy farmers with its big data solutions to make cows happier, healthier and more productive.
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Farm to Data Table: John Deere and Data in Precision Agriculture
Farm equipment manufacturer? Data technology leader? How about both? As the global leader in precision agriculture, John Deere is innovating through the internet of things and data analytics to help farmers improve their operations, bottom line, and ability to feed the world.
Pushing the mantra “data is the new oil” to the limit
Shell, the international energy company, has been an early adopter of data analytics in order to identify potential for improvement in the evolving energy industry. The company constantly tries to innovate, and it does not hold back from investing heavily in advanced technologies to reinvent the way it does business.