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How Big Data Might Change The Way You Find A Job
CareerLabs uses big data to explore all aspects of a company, from maternity leave to morale, growth, and financial health.
Some things in the work landscape are slow to change. So it is with job hunting. People are forced to search for job postings using the same filters such as zip codes and titles that they were 20 years ago, argues Anthony Van Horne, founder of the site CareerLabs. The platform, designed for jobseekers to get inside information on the companies they’re applying to, is now officially launching after six months of live testing with stealth beta tests.
How Ikea Is Defining The State Of Play (With A Little Help From DreamWorks)
Interviews with nearly 30,000 parents and children from 12 countries informed the Lattjo collection of play-oriented design.
Play isn’t just about fun and games—it’s a valuable way for children to refine their motor skills, learn about the world around them, and develop social relationships. 50 years ago, that might have meant hide and seek; 30 years ago maybe it was Jenga; today it’s probably any number of games on a PlayStation or iPad. Anecdotally speaking, play changes with the decades, but what Ikea wanted to do with its 2015 Play Report is quantify the social forces that are driving the shifts and understand how design in the domestic realm—the company’s domain—can help adults and children play more.
This Algorithm Is Better At Predicting Human Behavior Than Humans Are
You’re so predictable.
Analyzing big data sets in order to forecast trends or predict customer behavior usually relies on both computers and humans. Computer algorithms are advanced enough to rapidly comb through numbers and find useful patterns, and humans are still necessary for setting the parameters and analyzing the results. But an algorithm created by two MIT researchers suggest we could take out the human factor all together.
Lupe Fiasco And A Waze Exec Make A Million-Dollar Bet On Inner-City Innovators
Could the next $100 million business come from a marginalized neighborhood? Waze’s Di-Ann Eisnor and rapper Lupe Fiasco are sure of it.
It was in May 2014 that Di-Ann Eisnor met Lupe Fiasco. Eisnor is an executive at Google’s Waze, an angel investor, and a “neogeographer,” while Fiasco is a Grammy Award-winning rapper; the two were united as Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute. “We hit it off,” recalls Fiasco. Soon, they got to speaking about shared concerns: inequality in America, ghettoized neighborhoods, and the lack of diversity in the innovation economy.
From Punk Rock Anarchist To CEO
The story of Deeplocal’s Nathan Martin—both versions of him.
How does one go from a punk-rock, bring-down-the-establishment social anarchist to a CEO working with brands like Nike and Google? That’s the story of Nathan Martin, the founder of Deeplocal, a Pittsburgh-based creative agency that’s produced a host of culture-jamming branding events for major corporations.
The Blurring of Art, Machines, And Vodka At Industry City Distillery
“We make booze to pay for art and science,” says the cofounder of the New York-based vodka maker.
Industry City Distillery has been a beautiful accident from the start. And much of it still doesn’t make sense four years after the first batch was created—until you taste what’s in the bottle.
ESPN Pulls Videos From YouTube Due To Terms Of Upcoming Paid Tier
Following the announcement of YouTube Red, ESPN is citing a “rights conflict” and removing select video content from the site.
ESPN has started pulling some of its video content from YouTube, just days after the video-sharing site announced its paid, ad-free tier called YouTube Red. ESPN content that has already been uploaded to YouTube are now marked as private, and ESPN-owned properties like Grantland have switched over to the network’s proprietary player.
American Egg Board CEO Steps Down Amid Vegan Mayo Controversy
The CEO of America’s umbrella group for the egg industry suddenly stepped down, months earlier than expected.
The CEO of the American Egg Board, Joanne Ivy, has quit her position. Her departure comes almost two months after The Guardian published emails that showed Egg Board officials trying to stop Whole Foods from selling the eggless mayonnaise spread Just Mayo. Ivy unexpectedly stepped down today, even though she was supposed to remain CEO of the American Egg Board until the end of the year.
Security Company’s Cryptography Play Aims At Tech Firms, Finance
A new suite of tools by startup Dyadic can stop a cybersecurity breach in progress.
Almost all companies use cryptography—the creation of secure communication techniques like codes and encryption—to protect sensitive information online, including customer passwords and credit card data. However, many organizations that depend on cryptography don’t understand the specifics of how different forms work, which means they cannot respond effectively when their systems experience a breach by hackers or are compromised from the inside.
