Boxed: Boxing Out The Competition with Data Analytics
Since its launch 8 years ago, Boxed has sent out tens of millions of boxes of groceries, and has been valued at over $600M. Big Data played an integral part.
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Eaze: Leveraging Data Analytics in the Cannabis Industry
Eaze is a cannabis marketplace and delivery service that has enabled data-driven decisions in a nascent yet rising industry. While the industry still faces a lot of challenges, Eaze is helping alleviate some of these challenges
The Business of Predicting and Winning Elections
How data brokers and cutting-edge social science have reshaped the modern political campaign.
Entera: Tuned-in to what SFR real estate investors want
Entera is empowering investors to buy thousands of homes among hundreds of thousands of options.
Starbucks: From Coffee Machines to Machine Learning
With more than 20 million regular users on its US app, Starbucks collects more data in any single day than it serves Latte Machiattos. The result is a highly personalized, well-designed customer experience: “With whipped cream, as usual, I assume? Have a great day, Stéphane!”.
Zooming in on the secrets of a lucrative data company that happens to make coffee.
Disney Magic with Big Data
“Technology is lifting the limits of creativity and transforming the possibilities for entertainment and leisure.” – Bob Iger, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company
Whoop: Operationalizing Fitness Data to Help Athletes
Whoop is a fantastic subscription based fitness monitor that gathers and analyzes over 1,000 more data than its competitors and delivers personalized insights to its fanatical customers.
Civitas Learning: Using Data to Improve Student Success
Civitas Learning has an ambitious goal of increasing the annual number of college graduates by 1 million through its application of big data analytics in higher education.
How Instagram Keeps Users Scrolling For More
Instagram is using data analytics to keep us scrolling – but at what cost?
How Mercadolibre became the biggest company in Latin America
During the covid pandemic of 2020 Mercadolibre came out as one of the biggest winners, experiencing growth of more than 100% in their volume of transactions and becoming the biggest company in all Latin America. But, how did this garage startup founded 20 years ago become the biggest online commerce and payments ecosystem in the region?