How To Spot Social Media Bots – They Are Often Lonely
Social media bots have become an increasingly challenging issue. They can trick you into buying stuff or even influence your opinion (read more about the trouble they can cause here). But one way to...
View ArticleWhy LinkedIn Is As Important As The Capital Market
Recently, my favorite INSEAD Professor, Kevin Kaiser, came over to LinkedIn with a group of executives from around the world. We chatted about value creation in Silicon Valley. Like no other part of...
View ArticleSpring 2015 – Best of Cornell
How do you create amazing new data driven products! By studying deep, deeper and the deepest machine learning algorithms? Nope – by enabling business folks to talk and think data. I recently had the...
View ArticleHow Cornell Trains Future Data Managers
How do you create amazing new data driven products! By studying deep, deeper and the deepest machine learning algorithms? Nope – by enabling business folks to talk and think data . Recently I had the...
View ArticleThe New Facebook Likes
Social Media really becomes more and more like a survey tool. You can now express different types of “likes”…. Thumb up or not? It’s your choice! “Not every moment is a good moment” said “Zuck”. That...
View ArticleThe Force Awakens In Data – Industry Leaders Comment
How does the latest “Star Wars” movie parallel with the data industry? Both have a force that awakens. However, while Rey, the tough scavenger in “Star Wars” (played well by Daisy Ridley), saw her...
View ArticleRacial Injustice In NYC Revealed By Data
Every morning, New York City police officers receive insights from computers, directing them to areas where crime is likely to occur. If that sounds similar to the 2002 sci-fi movie Minority Report,...
View ArticleShould You Airbnb Or Sell Your Property — Big Data Helps
Data-driven decision making is a practice in many commercial industries now. But especially the real estate industry is using data. Companies like Zillow or Redfin provide estimates of a given house in...
View ArticleHow A Small Restaurant Can Use Its Data
How can small businesses leverage point of sale data to make informed decisions? Big Data sounds often like Big Business, but the power of data is available even to small businesses without extensive...
View ArticleUber Data Determine The Best Food Places In New York City
Anyone who lives in the Ditmars neighborhood of Astoria, Queens will speak fondly of El Rey Del Taco, a neighborhood favorite food late night food truck that often has a line down the block. However,...
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