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How Insurance Companies Use Data To Measure Risk And Choose Rates

Smart Data Collective

For instance, the 2000 Honda Civic is the most stolen car in America and the Mitsubishi Mirage (in the 2013-2017 model range) has the most fatal crashes. Telematics is changing how insurance companies assess risk as it measures individual driver behavior rather than basing it on average group data. Safety Features.

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Critical Components of Big Data Architecture for a Translation Company

Smart Data Collective

A good translation company can help you make sense of data from other languages, be it numerical formats or other languages that describe the data. Further, big data itself incorporates working with growing amounts of data these days. It’s overwhelming just how fast our data is growing. That’s just staggering.

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Big Data Joins The Fight Against Traumatic Brain Injuries

Smart Data Collective

But IBM isn’t the only one working with big data to better understand head injuries and use data to help with head injuries and how they’re treated. The American College of Radiology (ACR) launched what is known as the Head Injury Institute (HII) in 2013. Big data may also be able to help researchers better understand TBIs.

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Data-Driven Pitch Deck Examples for Inspiring the Next Big Screenwriter

Smart Data Collective

Professionals throughout the industry are looking for ways to integrate big data into their jobs. A growing number of screenwriters are discovering the wonders of big data. Fast Company wrote about this back in 2013 when they said that Big Data is Rewriting Hollywood Scripts.

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7 Data Presentation Tips: Think, Focus, Simplify, Calibrate, Visualize++

Occam's Razor

There are three elements to our "big data" efforts, or unhyped normal data efforts: Data Collection, Data Reporting, and Data Analysis. Finally, this is picky, but why is most of the x-axis yearly and then suddenly just until Q2, 2013? Surprisingly sloppy from McKinsey, right?

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Our Q3 Newsletter

Howard Dresner

Newsletter from Dresner Advisory Services As we approach the final 3rd of 2013, we thought you might appreciate an update and progress report from Dresner Advisory Services. Research: We took on a pretty ambitious research agenda for 2013 and have succeeded in publishing a number of breakthrough market studies.

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Big Data Sets Impressive New Standards On Integrated Business Systems

Smart Data Collective

In 2013, Wired published a very interesting article about the role of big data in the field of integrated business systems. Author James Kobielus, the lead AI and data analyst for Wikibon and former IBM expert, said that there are a number of ways that integrated business systems are tapping the potential of AI and big data.

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