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#include1billion – Financial Inclusion by Data Analytics
Lenddo and EFL are trying to achieve financial inclusion of underbanked population by using alternative scoring model using social media, mobile phone and psychometric data.
They know when you’re going to quit – even before you do
Some companies think they can predict when you're going to quit based on people who seem similar to you. And they're going to tell your boss.
AltSchool: Learning about Learning
AltSchool is using a data intensive approach to personalize K-12 education
McData: underdog McDonalds using data to defy its naysayers
New McDonalds CEO Steve Easterbrook set the company on a data-driven transformation to improve its customer experience.
Humanyze-ing the workplace: gathering and analyzing unique data on employee interaction to improve productivity
The people analytics industry is expected to grow to $1B in value by 2022. Humanyze, a Cambridge based startup, is at the forefront of the people analytics charge – the firm has developed a software platform for integrating multiple sources of data, and an innovative badge which gathers diverse data to feed that platform. Humanyze has the potential to create and capture significant value, as long as it can manage concerns around data privacy.
Glassdoor: Potentially littered with inaccurate and fabricated information?
Glassdoor, a Yelp of job seekers, is fundamentally changing the way candidates hunt for jobs and companies recruit talent. Glassdoor is not only an aggregator of job openings, as sites such as Indeed and CareerBuilder often are, but it is also a user-generated content site of sorts, providing profiles of businesses based on millions of anonymous reviews and data points from current and former employees.
From a Presidential Campaign to a Data Analytics Start-Up – Civis Analytics
Effectively harnessing data analytics and machine learning allow campaigns and companies to improve the ROI of marketing costs and to gain deeper insight into consumer data to make better business decisions.
Health Insurance Reimagined: John Hancock’s Vitality (Using Data to Promote Health)
John Hancock introduces a program called Vitality, which rewards consumers for healthy behavior based on data collected by Fitbit.
NASA: Big Challenges Require Big (Data) Solutions
Do you know the frustration of sifting through an endless stream of images to find the “keepers”?
If so, you are not alone. NASA feels your pain.