Cambridge Analytica, a data
analytics firm which is currently under investigation by the ICO, was revealed to journalists working for the Observer to have used personal information taken without authorization in early 2014 to build a system that could profile individual US voters.
It is believed that the remark was in relation to the privacy fiasco involving Cambridge Analytica, a London - based
analytics firm which had apparently scraped Facebook for data of around 50 million users, and used it to influence the outcome of the 2016 US elections.
In the days before the vote 23 - year - old Mr Grimes then gave the money to a Canadian
analytics firm which specialises in targeted online advertising called AggregateIQ.
Not exact matches
«The Tweet did not go viral until late last night in the U.S. with an explosion of re-tweets and newly generated comments as both tweet volume and negative sentiment exploded into the market open today,» said Joseph Gits of Social Market
Analytics, a
firm whose data trawls for information in social media sites,
which is in turn used by major investors to inform their investing decisions.
Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile, whose
analytics firm has partnered with Google on AMP, says that fixing the mobile web in the way Google has proposed would also help the open web compete with proprietary apps,
which for many users have become the primary way they interact with content and media.
That information should have remained with Kogan, but he instead gave it to Cambridge Analytica, an
analytics firm best known for its work on the Donald Trump campaign,
which used it to build profiles on potential voters for GOP candidates.
By Sunday's end the «conversation» about Adidas and Yeezy Boost had lit up social media, with social
analytics firm Networked Insights recording 141,077 related posts — 20 % more than the sum of posts about Nike (NKE),
which had likewise set up a flotilla of big - dollar marketing events for the All - Star celebration.
Tranter is the co-founder of Optimus, an
analytics firm that did work for Sen. Marco Rubio's 2016 presidential campaign and Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson's senatorial campaign — the latter of
which ended in an upset win nearly as unexpected as Trump's.
This former consultant (Booz Allen and Price Waterhouse) has rocked the world of big data with his eight - year - old
firm,
which provides data and
analytics services to a quarter of the companies on the Fortune 500.
In the larger wearables category,
which includes cheaper fitness bands, Apple ranks third behind Xiaomi Corp. and Fitbit Inc., according to research
firm Strategy
Analytics.
«According to [
analytics firm] Sensor Tower, on July 11 (6 days after its July 6 US launch), Pokémon Go was generating US revenue of $ 1.6 million per day on iOS, from the 10 million downloads on iOS devices, implying spending of $ 0.16 per person per day, of
which Apple keeps 30 % (five cents),» Martin adds in her note.
Earlier that year, in July 2015, Splunk completed a $ 190 million acquisition of Caspida, a cybersecurity
firm that sold user behavior
analytics tools,
which parse large data sets for patterns and anomalies.
They can combine it with their own information and benefit from the
firm's
analytics expertise,
which mainly comes in the form of statistical «scores».
Using PRIME's proprietary social media
analytics methods and technology, the research
firm identified 13 million relevant social media posts from March 2013 to December 2013 on the subject of mobile payment innovation in the context of MasterCard and its industry peers; sentiment analysis shows the majority of posts were driven by news - story sharing 92 % positive / factual, only 8 % negative tone overall
which is a reflection of the original content as it appeared in traditional news outlets.
Since then he has co-founded the data
analytics firm Palantir Technologies, made the first outside investment in Facebook, provided early funding for companies like SpaceX, LinkedIn, Yelp, and Spotify, and established and funds the Thiel Foundation,
which nurtures tomorrow's tech visionaries.
On average, the total price charged for a vaginal birth in the U.S. is $ 30,000 (# 24,000),
which rises to $ 50,000 (# 39,000) for a cesarean section, according to Truven Health
Analytics, a New York
firm that collects health care data.
The off - premise declines noted by IRI are consistent with first quarter insights from GuestMetrics, a data
analytics firm tracking on - premise sales,
which last month said total beer sales were down 3.1 percent and that «several major brands declined.»
The move comes in the wake of a Guardian and Observer investigation
which alleged that in 2013 that academic Dr Aleksandr Kogan used a quiz app to harvest the data of 50 million users, before passing it on to data
analytics firm Cambridge Analytica.
In 2017, the research
firm won one of the ARF's David Ogilvy Awards,
which honor companies, brands and agencies that take creative approaches to
analytics, consumer insights and partnerships with creative teams.
The shady
analytics firm is believed to have gained access to personal data from around 50 million of Facebook's users,
which it employed to inform online ad spending and influence elections.
Deep Root
Analytics, the Republican data
firm which created and maintained the exposed data warehouse, was co-founded in 2013 by Alex Lundry, a Republican campaign data scientist who had served as data director in Mitt Romney's unsuccessful 2012 presidential campaign.
Facebook continued to feel the heat Wednesday after it was revealed that personal information from 50 million users was improperly obtained by the
analytics firm Cambridge Analytica,
which was hired by then - candidate Trump's 2016 campaign.
Iowa could be defined by a battle between two data
analytics firms: Cambridge Analytica,
which consulted for the Texas senator, and Optimus Consulting,
which worked for his Florida rival.
Evidence submitted by campaigners highlights the fact that all three groups — Vote Leave, Veterans for Britain and BeLeave — chose to spend their money with the same small data
analytics firm,
which has a minimal online presence.
Each network would be supported by an
analytic partner, such as a university or contract research
firm,
which would convene the network and provide the
analytic infrastructure.
«The key factors
which we see impacting on the digital textbook market and the educational publishing sector as a whole are the increasing speed of the move to digital as efficacy studies and technological advances enable take - up of suitable devices and solutions,» said Kate Worlock, Lead Analyst for Education & Training at information
analytics firm Outsell.
Since launching earlier this year, RIM's first tablet has struggled in the consumer market to keep pace with Apple Inc.'s iPad,
which currently commands 61.3 % of the market, compared to about 3.3 % for the PlayBook, according to data from market research
firm Strategy
Analytics.
Google never disclosed sales figures for the Nexus 7,
which is manufactured by Asus, but according to
analytics firm Localytics Google's tablet owns 8 percent of the global Android tablet market share, trailing Amazon's Kindle Fire family (33 percent), Barnes & Noble's Nook (10 percent), and Samsung's gaggle of slates (9 percent).
The
firm Ooyala, an online video
analytics company, has released a report
which seems to show that the use of PC's...
The
firm has announced the roll out of its Game
Analytics API or the game dashboard on the Twitch Developer site,
which will let studios see data such as how their game looks on Twitch, how many personalities are streaming their project as well as how many people are watching them.
Lex Machina,
which started out with a niche focus on intellectual property litigation data and has gradually expanded out into securities and antitrust law, has as part of this latest product development process interviewed commercial litigators from top law
firms and major corporations to better understand their particular
analytics use - cases.
He points out that many larger law
firms have in - house resources to build their own systems,
which gives them more options to customize and tailor
analytics systems and tools to their exact information needs.
The integration combines Ravel Law's powerful tools including interactive visualisations and
analytics with Handshake Software's SP Bridge,
which extends SharePoint Search to a
firm's enterprise search platform and creates an environment where users can easily find and review critical
firm data,
firm expertise as well as on - premises and online legal research materials.
The new collaboration,
which follows Bamford's appointment as a non-executive director of Wavelength, will use legal technology, data
analytics, contract automation, «living» playbooks, machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions in order to provide responsive services to law
firms, in - house legal teams and other business departments.
Firms like ContractRoom, and Kira,
which analyze contracts, are a smattering of emerging companies that use artificial intelligence and
analytics to examine legal information and tackle workflow and opportunities in the legal business.
The new platform,
which has been in private beta with
firms including Ice Miller and wealth management
firm True Capital Management, enables legal teams and clients to collaborate on documents and provides closing checklists and transaction - specific
analytics and reports.
It is also much easier and cheaper to track the effectiveness of a campaign using SEO: while television ads may require further audience outreach services to tell
which viewers are interested, all your website needs is a basic free
analytics tool like Google Analytics to see who is reaching your website via search, and who is contacting your firm because of search engine opti
analytics tool like Google
Analytics to see who is reaching your website via search, and who is contacting your firm because of search engine opti
Analytics to see who is reaching your website via search, and who is contacting your
firm because of search engine optimization.
The Captorra advertising intelligence module provides
firm management detailed
analytics on what markets are producing best,
which time slots are producing the best or where you get the best referrals.
In a very topical application of data
analytics, US employment leader Littler has announced the launch of the Littler Pay Equity Assessment,
which combines the 1300 + lawyer
firm's experience in employment law and compensation with proprietary technology to identify pay gaps and, ergo, risks of litigation.
The tool comes as it emerges that Dr. Zev Eigen, Littler's former global director of data
analytics, has just left the
firm for people
analytics startup Syndio,
which he co-founded in January 2016.
Custom
Analytics is a new consulting service
which law
firms, corporate teams, universities, courts and government departments can use to help them identify insights into legal information and strategy.
UK based
firm Ruler
Analytics «closes the loop» between marketing and sales by matching real customer data against the exact marketing source from
which it was generated.
Stephensons law
firm,
which has offices in Altrincham, Horwich, Manchester, London, St. Helens, Leigh and Wigan, has utilised data
analytics and the Ruler Analytics package to drive productivity, generate leads and t
analytics and the Ruler
Analytics package to drive productivity, generate leads and t
Analytics package to drive productivity, generate leads and track ROI.
Pinsent Masons was the third and final standout
firm for technology and data
analytics, recognised for its knowledge management system,
which guides lawyers through the steps of a case while connecting them to relevant documents.
So we plan to invest in the research side, we want to make greater use of the information we have, add value to the law
firms, and enhance our reputational
analytics,
which is what we do.
The article did not mention Sky
Analytics, http://www.skyanalytics.com/
which has also announced that it is analyzing law
firm billing data on behalf of law departments or Thomson Reuters Serengeti and its Serengeti Intelligence offering (See my post of Oct. 14, 2011: Rob Thomas mentions the recent release.).
While the R&D shop has developed client facing expert systems, document automation tools and predictive
analytics — the most notable project this year is called SeytMap,
which earned the
firm ILTA's «Innovative Project of the Year Award» — an award the
firm has now won two years running.
But as of early afternoon Tuesday, neither Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg nor his high - profile chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, had made public comments about the mushrooming crisis,
which now involves a reported Federal Trade Commission probe, demands by Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill for testimony by Zuckerberg, and the release of an undercover video by a British television station that appears to show the head of the data
analytics firm talking about bribes and traps to sway elections.
«I'm excited to share with these law
firm leaders how our customers,
which include one third of the AmLaw 100, are deploying
analytics in the business and practice of law.»
As organizations look to reduce legal spend, vendors have begun to develop additional
analytic tools to increase the overall efficiency with
which legal tasks use
analytics to improve legal research tasks, to improve efficiency during eDiscovery tasks, and to identify how to most efficiently allocate tasks within a legal department or law
firm.