Data Dive

A DataDive is an all-weekend event with lots of people, computers, and coffee. Non-profits bring their data and their problems or questions, data scientists bring the expertise to answer the questions and solve the problems.

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Data Dive: New Ideas, Expected And Not, Edition
Data Dive: New Ideas, Expected And Not, Edition
May 20, 2019  |  Data Dive

Some changes, advances and adjustments are expected – they are clearly part of a long-term strategy playing out, or an obviously useful pivot that expands...

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Data Dive, New Rules Edition: Starbucks, San Francisco And Card Interest Rate Caps
Data Dive, New Rules Edition: Starbucks, San Francisco And Card Interest Rate Caps
May 13, 2019  |  Data Dive

Ralph Waldo Emerson is credited with saying that if one were able to build a better mousetrap, the world would beat a path to their...

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Data Dive, New Ideas Edition: Uber, Marriott And Facebook
Data Dive, New Ideas Edition: Uber, Marriott And Facebook
May 06, 2019  |  Data Dive

There is always something new going on in payments — such that it is easy to lose track. But every once in a while a...

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Data Dive, Milestone Edition: Gig Payments, Affirm And Contactless March On
Data Dive, Milestone Edition: Gig Payments, Affirm And Contactless March On
April 08, 2019  |  Data Dive

For baseball fans, April 8 is a day that lives in semi-infamy, as it is the day 45 years ago in 1974 that Hank Aaron...

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Data Dive, Spring Blooms Edition: Apple, Citi And Square
Data Dive, Spring Blooms Edition: Apple, Citi And Square
April 01, 2019  |  Data Dive

April has arrived, and once we’ve sorted out the various pranks, we can all take a minute to appreciate that winter is over. Granted, depending...

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Data Dive, Better Together Edition: Worldpay, FIS, Google, eBay, PayPal, Instagram
Data Dive, Better Together Edition: Worldpay, FIS, Google, eBay, PayPal, Instagram
March 25, 2019  |  Data Dive

While the competition part of the story is usually where the action is in payments and commerce  – who’s ahead, who’s behind, who’s innovating, who’s...

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Data Dive, Big Launches Edition: Google, Sephora And PayPal
Data Dive, Big Launches Edition: Google, Sephora And PayPal
March 18, 2019  |  Data Dive

Mid-March is more famous for spectacular endings than big beginnings – likely because one of the more high-profile political assassinations (and BFF break-ups) in history...

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Data Dive, Forward Backward Edition: The Cashless Tango And Amazon’s Opposite Moves
Data Dive, Forward Backward Edition: The Cashless Tango And Amazon’s Opposite Moves
March 11, 2019  |  Data Dive

While it is easy to imagine the path of progress is ever forward, often in the innovation game it is a bit more like the Paula...

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Stops, Starts And Never Was Edition: Intuit, Zillow And Amazon
Stops, Starts And Never Was Edition: Intuit, Zillow And Amazon
March 04, 2019  |  Data Dive

Followers of the regular news cycle will note that between the action on Capitol Hill and in North Korea, the flow of news was a...

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