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?
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Zara Leverages Data Analytics to Understand Consumer Tastes
Zara is using data analytics to guide its design and manufacturing process, making it a leader in the fashion market.
Fitbit – leveraging consumers’ obsession with data
In the era of Big Data, companies are obsessed with figuring out how to crunch the numbers and make use of the increased data provided to us by a number of devices. However – companies are not alone in embracing data analytics: As evidenced by Fitbit, there is an increased interest among consumers in measuring, tracking and analyzing data from their own lives.
Next Big Sound – BandPage on Steroids?!
“I stream, you stream, we all stream some Trap Queen.”
Next Big Sound brings analytics to artists and brands using streaming music and social media data.
Google: Data-driven Value Creation and Value Capture
Google uses data and analysis creatively in every aspect of it’s operating model, value creation, and value capturing.
CVS Health’s ExtraCare Program: Four Feet of Data Analytics
Did you ever wonder why your CVS receipt is four feet long? The answer: a depth of customer data analytics that drives value creation for the CVS customer and value capture for CVS Health
Using Data to Monetize Mother Nature
Weather influences 1/3 of the world’s GDP on a daily basis. With such value at stake, The Weather Company is using big data to help companies worldwide optimize marketing, supply chain, and core business operations to capture the value that weather leaves up for grabs.
Everyone on the Internet is an Expert
As I pen this likely masterpiece, I contemplate two things: (a) why in Heaven’s name was a blog post due on a Saturday night*, and (b) how well is humankind doing in its quest to semantically structure the world’s information? […]
Intrade: Crowdsourced Wisdom?
Intrade leveraged the wisdom of crowds by allowing users to bet on future world events and displaying shockingly accurate predictive power in the process.
Summit Powder Mountain
Summit Series has crowdfunded and crowdsourced a new resort and town plan for Powder Mountain in Eden Utah. The Question is to what end?