Meet Stitch Fix, the Personal Shopping Service That Mixes Data With a Human Touch

Silk blouse in your size and a statement necklace, coming right up.
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Circa’s Matt Galligan on Building a Different Kind of News Reader (Video)

Mobile news apps are hot. Summly just sold for a ridonkulous amount of money, for example. So what’s up with the “atomic bits” list-makers of the San Francisco?
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LinkedIn Beefs Up Sitewide Search

LinkedIn announced an update to its search function on Monday, tweaking some smaller qualities to the site’s people-browsing capabilities. Among the improvements are a “smart query intent algorithm” — which learns and gets better with each search you perform — as well as suggested searches and automated alerts.

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Embedded Analytics Can Save Time, Money and Lives

If heart disease runs in your family, DSP analytics and body sensors could continuously monitor you for the earliest symptoms.
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In the Battle of More Data vs. Better Algorithms, Better Data Beats Them Both

The companies that engage individuals around how their data is used and collected will have an unfair advantage over those that don’t.
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Go West, Young Geek: Chris Dixon on Why He Became a Silicon Valley VC at Andreessen Horowitz, and More! (Video)

If you can make it here, you’ll make it anywhere.
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Illusions of Expertise: Why Marketers Should Start Listening to Data

Armed with mountains of data, most experts put in charge of predicting outcomes still can’t come up with accurate answers.

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Better Algorithms Beat More Data — And Here’s Why

Imagine you want to marry someone who will help you produce tall, healthy children.

Confirmed: Chris Dixon Becomes Seventh Investing GP at Andreessen Horowitz

So it is written, so it shall be done.
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