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Three abilities that data scientists need
Ability #1 == to translate "human questions" into bite-size hypotheses. By "human questions," I mean conceptual and high-level questions...
Kaitlyn Choi
Aug 19, 20211 min read
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Start the project without data
(Photo by Christina Morillo) It was not what I planned. Waiting for the datasets for my first real-world data science project, my...
Kaitlyn Choi
Jul 5, 20211 min read
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What would follow the streaming wars?
Amazon has announced that it agreed to acquire the movie and television studio MGM. This is the e-commerce giant's second largest...
Kaitlyn Choi
May 26, 20211 min read
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Select articles from WSJ 3/7/21
Google to Cut Commission It Charges App Developers: The platforms that serve two distinct customers--one consumes the service and the...
Kaitlyn Choi
Mar 17, 20211 min read
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Disney+: Both-and, not either-or
Reporting that Disney+ streaming service has topped 100 million subscribers, the WSJ article (3/10/21) wrote, "Questions loom about the...
Kaitlyn Choi
Mar 10, 20211 min read
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Idea 3. Journalism business beyond the news page
Situation: Following a series of WSJ articles that started when Facebook removed news from its platform as a response to the Australian...
Kaitlyn Choi
Feb 27, 20212 min read
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Who's the customer of Watson Health?
Two articles about AI in business were next to each other on today's WSJ. One was about Bank of New York Mellon using AI to predict the...
Kaitlyn Choi
Feb 22, 20211 min read
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Idea 2. Salvage the customer experience
Situation: Peloton, a maker of indoor bikes and also a tech company offering an interactive fitness platform with a growing community of...
Kaitlyn Choi
Feb 5, 20211 min read
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Goliath who won in the GameStop frenzy
If you think GameStop mania was a David vs. Goliath story, listen to this episode of the podcast On Point. From news media, you may have...
Kaitlyn Choi
Feb 5, 20211 min read
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Select articles from WSJ 2/1/21
A set of graphs that is shaping and will shape not only the business world, but every system around us including education and...
Kaitlyn Choi
Feb 2, 20211 min read
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What new features in Snapchat tell us about Snapchat
Snapchat is differentiating itself from other social media platforms. Using augmented reality, Snapchat allows its users to virtually try...
Kaitlyn Choi
Jan 26, 20212 min read
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Idea 1. What's next for Netflix?
Big question: Netflix has hit a milestone of 200 million subscribers, but it's expecting a steeper competition other streaming services...
Kaitlyn Choi
Jan 24, 20211 min read
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Only good questions lead to good answers
Today's WSJ Business & Finance section had an excerpt from the interview with David Gibbs, CEO of Yum! Brands. Fast-food restaurants were...
Kaitlyn Choi
Jan 4, 20212 min read
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The second wave of innovation
"There’s an old saying that the first fifty years of the car industry were about creating car companies and working out what cars should...
Kaitlyn Choi
Dec 22, 20201 min read
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When insurance plans are developed by a biotech...
In the previous post, I talked about the demand for developing new payment plans especially for gene therapies. Then, I came across a...
Kaitlyn Choi
Dec 18, 20201 min read
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Looking at gene therapy from one step back
My summary of an article from BCG titled "From Lab to Marketplace, Succeeding with Gene Therapies", which taught me that I should look at...
Kaitlyn Choi
Dec 16, 20201 min read
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Exosomes as a tool for drug delivery
Summary of a Nature Biotechnology article titled "Big pharma buys into exosomes for drug delivery": What problems could exosomes solve?...
Kaitlyn Choi
Dec 10, 20201 min read
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What we want: experiences
Last week, Warner Bros. decided to release all of its 17 movies on HBO Max the same day they hit theaters next year. This decision is...
Kaitlyn Choi
Dec 9, 20202 min read
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Amazon Pharmacy is just the first step
A couple of days ago when I heard that Amazon launched online pharmacy, I wrote a short post pointing out that Alexa, physical spaces...
Kaitlyn Choi
Nov 30, 20201 min read
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A parallel between WeWork and Theranos
It's hard not to recall Theranos and its founder Elizabeth Holmes while reading the New Yorker article on VCs' reluctance to confront the...
Kaitlyn Choi
Nov 30, 20201 min read
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