23andMe – DNA analytics and the future of personalized medicine
DNA analytics and the future of personalized medicine
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TransUnion
Will TransUnion be able to maintain its edge in proprietary data and business analytics?
Ayasdi: A New Way to Think About Data
Ayasdi helps companies understand the “shape” of their data to drive better predictive analysis.
Adore Me is setting out to disrupt the lingerie space with style…and data
Fast-fashion online lingerie retailer Adoreme, launched in 2011 by HBS alum Morgan Hermand-Waiche, aims to shake up the women’s lingerie space which is currently dominated in the United States by Victoria’s Secret. Using former Victoria Secret designers (e.g. Head […]
PredPol: Predictive analytics to place police officers at the right time and place to increase chances of preventing crime.
PredPol is an analytic platform that assign crime probabilities to different places and times. With these insights, Police Departments can assign and schedule their patrols and officers to these dynamic “hot spots”, preventing crime and reducing significant costs to taxpayers.
Catapult Sports: Preventing Sports Injuries Before They Happen
Catapult is the global leader in athlete analytics, protecting thousands of elite athletes by monitoring player fatigue and physical load through wearable technology that turns physicality into data
Big data to transform agriculture
Although most of us do not worry about where our next meal will come from, about 800 million undernourished people in the world today do not have that luxury. Today, a start-up in Newark, NJ, is developing a technique that with intensive use of data, might be one of the biggest contributors to solving the food challenge the world will face over the next century.
Hollywood + data analytics = a better (and more profitable) Godzilla?
Hollywood studio Legendary Pictures uses a data-driven approach to inform creative decisions and transform marketing.
Automation at The Associated Press: Could a robot have written this blog post?
The AP is using algorithms to automatically generate news stories from structured data. But can it keep up with where data goes next?
Data and Analytics Creating Value for Hulu
Data is creating value at Hulu through its selection of content to invest in, its search recommendation engine, and its advertisers.