Tempus uses AI to help doctors and institutions to fight cancer and other diseases. The company has built the world’s largest library of clinical and molecular data and is now valued at more than $8 billion dollars.
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The Business of Predicting and Winning Elections
How data brokers and cutting-edge social science have reshaped the modern political campaign.
Strava: Striving in the time of Corona?
Strava is a fitness tracking application for “dedicated” cyclists and runners. The origin of Strava is from the Swedish word for striving: strava. Founded in 2009 by Mark Gainey and Richard Shaw [1], Strava has grown into one of the […]
Replica: Informing Urban Planning with Synthetic Simulations
Replica aims to use machine learning and synthetic simulations to make urban planning more efficient and inclusive. Translating "real" data into "synthetic" data offers promise for addressing the privacy concerns critics have.
LiveRamp (formerly Acxiom) – selling you – without owning your data
A critical look at the risks and opportunities of the data brokerage business model at the example of market leading LiveRamp
Criteo: how much personalized retargeting is too much?
Criteo uses AI and Big Data to increase the scope of online advertising by created unique ads for … each individual customer.
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.