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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.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?News Byte
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.Voices
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.Voices
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.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.Voices
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.Voices








