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With $2.4M seed, Zing Data wants to put data analysis in the palm of your hand

TechCrunch

If data is at the heart of any modern business, it needs to be easier to access and manipulate it without expertise. The founders of Zing Data recognized this fundamental problem with data access, and they went to work building a mobile application that would let users get into the data themselves.

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The White Collar Revolution

Tomasz Tunguz

Code completion, generation, refactoring, security analysis Education & Librarians 2.37 AI radiology, drug discovery, research analysis Finance 1.13 Public & private company diligence, compliance analysis Marketing & PR 0.9 Powerpoint creation, data analysis Lawyers 0.8 Sales Managers 0.4

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Neo4j raises Neo$325M as graph-based data analysis takes hold in enterprise

TechCrunch

Graph-based data models have become central to modern machine learning and artificial intelligence applications, and are now widely used by data analysts in applications as diverse as marketing to fraud detection. How to identify unicorn founders when they’re still early-stage.

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My Pal Dave: A Triumph of Substance Over Style

Both Sides of the Table

Just ask the founder of JetBlue (Azul Brazilian Airlines), Dave Neeleman. He had a philosophy that the future competition for startups would be design led and based on data analysis. My guess is that many VCs are. And so are most startup CEOs for that matter. Sounds obvious.

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The industrial data revolution: What founders got wrong

TechCrunch

Joe Hellerstein is co-founder and chief strategy officer of Trifacta and the Jim Gray Chair of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. In February 2010, The Economist published a report called “ Data, data everywhere.” Little did we know then just how simple the data landscape actually was. Joe Hellerstein. Contributor.

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Meet 5 YLAI Fellows Traveling as Youth Delegates to the Summit of the Americas

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Bevon Charles , Grenada , CEO and founder of Akata Farms , a company that builds sustainable farms. Facundo Cajén, Argentina, CEO and founder of Proponas. Luis Villatoro Villaherrera, El Salvador, founder of Gobdata/ TRACODA , the first organization in El Salvador using data analysis to create transparency.

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Optimize for authentic relationships, not bluster

This is going to be BIG.

Hilary has had both a major impact on my personally--by helping to push the envelope on the kind of data analysis work we were doing at Path 101. When we hired her, we leveled up in terms of our technology and Big Data chops. That's when I reemerged on Josh Kopelman's radar and he decided to offer me a job at First Round.