OpenBazaar: Using the power of blockchain crowds to disintermediate Amazon
To what extent will blockchain peer-to-peer crowds like OpenBazaar disintermediate the likes of Amazon?
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Oscar Health – revolutionizing health insurance through data analytics
A tech startup, powered by data analytics, is disrupting a massive industry through providing simpler and more affordable health insurance
Big Data for Music Festivals
Using insights gathered from data to improve the design, planning and sustainability efforts of future festivals
WHOOP: A wearable to unlock human potential
ABOUT WHOOP (yes, you have to capitalize it every single time) is a Boston-based start-up that produces wearables to track, record, and analyze one’s heart rate, heart rate variability (HRV), skin conductivity (touch), ambient temperature, and accelerometry (motion). The device […]
Facebook: Social Media and the Rise in Public Suicide
How Facebook is Leveraging Data and Machine Learning to Protect the Lives of its Users
TrueCar, a true friend to both consumers and dealerships
TrueCar manages to use data to disrupt and delight a 60 yr old business model
Broadway Enters the ‘Big Data’ Era
How Arts & Analytics is contributing to big data’s starring turn on Broadway
FlatIron Health – using data analytics to find a treatment for cancer
What is FlatIron Health? [1] Flatiron is a company tackling one of the biggest health challenges of our century –cancer. Flatiron is an oncology platform that aggregates patient data from electronic health records (EHR), lab and medical claims and […]
Saildrone: Democratized Ocean Data
Saildrone: democratizing ocean exploration and metocean data
23andMe… and my likelihood of going bald
23andMe pairs its database of genotypes with user-reported phenotypes to uncover new targets for drug discovery