Jessica Graves is a Data Scientist who currently works on fashion problems in New York City. She’s worked with Hilary Mason at Fast Forward Labs and keeps in regular contact with the London startup scene. She shares her unique perspective on the datafication of Fashion. She comes from a background

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Big data breaches aren’t going away any time soon and the recent revelation that Russia’s criminal underworld is in possession of account data for 272.3 million people is a testament to that. Initially announced by Reuters at the start of May but constantly referred to by other media outlets ever

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Every day, human beings create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data – data that is generated, accessed and shared on laptops, mobile devices and social media. In the political realm, data drives today’s campaigns – from studying voter demographics and conducting outreach to tailoring and testing specific messages. Data, Data, Everywhere

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Lindsey Thorne, Manager of the Open Source & Big Data Practice at Greythorn Lindsey has been in HR and recruiting for more than 12 years, and after narrowing her focus to the open source and data science market in 2012, she’s built a reputation for being the one recruiter “inside”

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As CTO, Peter leads the tech team of solarisBank. He’s the former CTO of HitFox Group and software engineering company Zweitag. Peter is experienced in building tech-heavy startups and fintechs.   Tell us about the mission of SolarisBank  and why you chose Berlin as your headquarters? We’re offering a horizontally-integrated

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Sports teams, investors, and fans take their sports very seriously. They would do anything to up their game. Big data in the sports industry has been gaining momentum since at least 2007, and now tracking has become the norm. That why the NBA installed player tracking systems in all of

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