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Dating by Data and Design
Photo by Allen Skyy on Flickr. (CC BY-ND 2.0)Online dating has come a long way from its somewhat dubious beginnings — it’s likely a friend, relative, or even yourself has found a partner through a...
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Study Finds Surprising Links Between Social Media and Music Sales
Image via the NextBigSound blog. With the music industry still scrambling to make money in the age of digital distribution, companies and musicians are increasingly turning to data to crack the code....
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Food Genius Serves Appetizing Analytics to Restaurant Owners
Running a restaurant can be a risky enterprise, prone to fickle culinary trends and stock overages. Moreover, up to 40% of the U.S. food supply goes to waste, according to a report released last August...
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DataKind’s Jake Porway on Data-Driven Solutions to Pressing Social Issues
Image from UCLA Magazine. 2012 was an eventful year for data scientist Jake Porway and DataKind, the organization he cofounded that connects nonprofits with volunteer data practitioners to addressing...
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How Do TV Viewers Tweet? Depends.
Twitter is a veritable gold mine of real-time social data for advertisers, brands, and entertainment studios. The much-vaunted phenomena of the second screen — viewers browsing and posting to social...
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Ethics and the Data-Driven Enterprise
“Pattern Recognition I” by Mario Klingemann via Flickr. Despite the prodigious business value, civic innovation, and predictive insight yielded from the cascading streams of Big Data, there are...
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ProPublica’s Force of Algorithmic Cub Reporters
The days of the cub reporter attending high school football games or city counsel meetings are becoming a thing of the past. With so much data available, and machines becoming increasingly effective...
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Heroic Feats of Data Scientists Doing Good
Photo by Sean MacEntee via Flickr. (CC BY 2.0) Data scientists are a tireless lot: between using their multidisciplinary skills to solve critical business challenges, fielding job offers, and competing...
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Visual.ly Predicts 2013’s Hot Data Visualization Trends
Infographic by Mike Jeter, I Shot Him. Data visualizations and infographics are proliferating on the web. This is thanks to the form’s ability to communicate complex ideas and large data sets in...
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Scott Yara’s Strata Keynote: Data and Collaboration In “An Extraordinary Time”
Scott Yara at Strata Conference 2012 Greenplum co-founder, Scott Yara struck an inspirational tone during his keynote at the Strata Conference #strataconf on Wednesday, February 27th in Santa Clara....
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