Julep is taping into the social nature of the beauty market to crowdsource new product design so consumers have the products they want to buy in a much faster timeline than traditional big beauty brands.
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Renaissance Technologies: Generating Alpha without Wall Street Veterans or MBAs
How a team of mathematicians, computer scientists, and physicists is beating the market
Palantir – Solving the “Biggest” of big data problems
Palantir – A discussion of its keys to success and what could threaten its mighty hold on big data analysis.
Big Data Takes Flight at Delta Air Lines
Embracing data analytics has helped Delta propel itself to the top of the US airline industry.
Mint: aggregating personal financial data with ease
Mint is a free personal finance website and mobile app founded in 2006 that easily allows for budget setting and expense tracking. The site then categorizes each event (which can be changed or customized by the user) and creates a one-stop destination for holistic financial management across the many accounts that one might have.
Rolls Royce: Internet of Things in Aviation
Rolls Royce: How a struggling airline supplier became a leader in big data analytics
Dataminr: Actionable signals from Twitter
Dataminr specializes in the real-time analysis of data from a variety of news and social media sources to provide differentiated and expedient support to media, public sector, finance, and corporate security entities. Their value is in their ability to rapidly […]
Can Amazon read our minds?
Amazon is working on a new technology that, based on data analysis, will allow them to predict purchases before they even happen and send the items to destination.
Entelo: Using big data for social recruiting
Entelo is aggregating user's online social data and running algorithms to identify best talent
Bonnaroo, iBeacons, and a better concert experience
Bonnaroo music festival uses iBeacons to enhance the concert going experience and capture big data