Datamining
Our hopes for mankind were renewed when we received a great suggestion by a reader today. Better yet, this reader has sent great stuff before and this is no exception. Keep those suggestions coming! We have the full BBC documentary with global health professor Hans Rosling inside. There’s also more on Hans Rosling and data visualization, including tips on how to build your own presentation with this data.
We’ve discussed the Netflix challenge in detail at Buysiders.com, and the “analytics”/ “data capturing and processing” theme is very important in our research. But we hadn’t posted about examples in Brazil! This Exame magazine article (in portuguese) solves this and mentions a few companies, including Saraiva. As people may guess even before reading the article, yes, the people behind this Brazilian “recommendation software” company did participate in the original Netflix contest.
Netflix is one of the most admirable cases around on corporate strategy AND execution. It shows how you can make billions out of simple things. That said, they have to kill a lion a year to stay ahead. Investment-wise, we never got to the point where we felt we knew enough to invest in them – and don’t regret not doing it.
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