Spotify uses listener data to predict, test, and create hit songs. "By the time a song lands on Todays Top Hits or other equally popular sets, Spotify has so relentlessly tested it that it almost cant fail.
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Tinder romance algorithm: just keep swiping
Launched in 2012, Tinder has become one of the top dating apps thanks to it user friendly design, mobile-first approach, and matching algorithm
DARE TO LIE?
Deception Analysis and Reasoning Engine (DARE) leverages Artificial Intelligence to detect deception in the courtroom. The researchers trained the Artificial Intelligence to detect five different micro-expressions. Five micro expressions related to lying are frowning, eyebrow raising, lip corners turning up, lips protruded and head side turn.
Silicon Valley’s Secretive Big Data Unicorn
Backed by In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital arm, is this company making all of the right relationships to succeed in the big data world?
Ovia Health – Using data and analytics for family planning
Data-analysis to reduce healthcare costs and improve employee retention
Stitch Fix: A Marriage of Art and Science
With a core competency in data analytics, Stitch Fix has ambitions to become the world's leading personal styling service.
Nielsen: What people watch, what people buy
Selling the understanding of what consumers watch, what they buy, and how those intersect
“Like” this post if you want a better credit score
Financial institutions are increasingly turning to nontraditional forms of data to evaluate creditworthiness. Lenddo is one of the start-ups seeking to change the way individuals are evaluated.
Spotify may know you better than you realize
Spotify, the largest on-demand music service, uses big data, artificial learning, and machine learning techniques to deliver a unique and personalized music listening experience.
#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.