Palantir started as a data mining company focused on intelligence and defense, but has expanded in the past 15 years to be among the largest unicorns in the country, working in local government, financial services, and beyond
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Flatiron Health – solving cancer through data analytics
Flatiron Health is using data and analytics to tackle cancer, which it believes cannot be “solved” by just the healthcare community – it needs the technology industry as well. Therefore, since Flatiron started in 2012, it has grown to nearly […]
Vitality: A data-driven approach to better health
If you were rewarded to engage in healthy behaviors, would you take better care of yourself? Vitality, founded in South Africa, is the world’s first health insurer to use behavioral economics and data analytics to incentivize customers to live healthier. […]
Target: You Can’t Hide That Baby Bump From Us
Target knows more about you than your closest friends and family. Beware the all-seeing, all-knowing Bullseye.
Using data analytics to bend morbidity curves
Through behavioural economics and data analytics, the Vitality wellness program has allowed dynamic underwriting that creates value for insurance companies and their members
Health Catalyst: Solving Data in Healthcare
Health Catalyst is a rare story of success in the difficult area of cataloguing and translation of healthcare data into actionable insight.
Darden Restaurants – Winning Customers with Data
Restaurants are looking to data to differentiate themselves in a rapidly changing competitive environment
How Cable Companies Are Using Data to Compete With Digital
Telco's are finally using data to better attract advertisers. But is it enough to stave off the trend of ad dollars moving toward digital platforms?
Lenddo: using data analytics to boost financial inclusion
Can social data and online behavior predict an individual’s propensity to default on a loan?
DiDi: Improving Efficiency and Road Traffic with Big Data
DiDi, the leading mobile transportation platform in China, looks for new ways to improve its services and solve traffic jam with big data.