Ayasdi – a different way of looking at data
Traditional data analysis relies on statistics. Ayasdi offers data analysis based on topology with applications ranging from disease research to investing to fraud detection.
Healthcare and Wellness
Optum: Using moneyball analytics to provided better insights in healthcare
Optum Health helping to improve the healthcare system by developing industry-leading data analytics software.
RAW IS EVERYTHING: Using Data To Start My Own Skincare Company
How I have used customer data to start my own skincare company and figure out what women really want.
SmartMat – quantifying the unquantifiable
SmartMat allows the analytically-minded yogi to quantify yoga poses in the hopes of deepening his or her practice over time.
Using the wisdom of the crowd to diagnose medical mysteries
CrowdMed aims to help those who suspect they have a rare disease, perhaps were misdiagnosed, or simply want a second opinion provide the story of their health problem to a community of experts.
Pandering to Beauty Junkies
How Julep uses its IdeaLab Crowd in Product Innovation
DLife: Facilitated Network for Diabetes Patients
DLife is a social network of sorts connecting diabetes patients with one another to share knowledge and information about managing the disease – but does sharing medical advice go too far?
PatientsLikeMe: Using the crowd to improve medical care
PatientsLikeMe is improving medical care by crowd-sourcing information from those who matter most, the patients themselves.
Oscar: Flirting with behavioral risk based pricing strategies
Introducing data collection through emerging technologies to innovate in the heavily regulated space of insurance companies
Julep: Defining beauty by numbers
From internet to store/house, Julep has been redefining the way beauty products are launched and consumed