Source: forbes.com Have you ever noticed how accurate Netflix’s recommendations are to your taste? And how is Google Maps so confident I’m going home, that it will suggest directions to my house? Even my iPhone suggests what time I should set my alarm clock right before I go to bed. This means it knows when Read More
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Source: forbes.com I have written on several occasions about Netflix’s use of data analysis and how this strategy has given it a clear advantage over traditional approaches based on studio executives’ “gut feeling”. We now have tangible evidence of the success of this strategy: in December Netflix dominated the Golden Globes nominations, and at the Read More
Source: cmu.edu Whether you noticed or not, you are receiving and creating countless data in your everyday life, sometimes merely by sending messages and browsing items on a shopping site. Many fields, such as medicine and entertainment are data-rich, which drives researchers to find new ways to capture and analyze this rapidly increasing information. Carnegie Read More