Three abilities that data scientists need
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Ability #1 == to translate "human questions" into bite-size hypotheses. By "human questions," I mean conceptual and high-level questions...
Kaitlyn Choi
- Jul 5, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Kaitlyn Choi
- May 26, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Kaitlyn Choi
- Mar 17, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Kaitlyn Choi
- Mar 10, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Kaitlyn Choi
- Feb 27, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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Kaitlyn Choi
- Feb 22, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Kaitlyn Choi
- Feb 5, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Kaitlyn Choi
- Feb 5, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Kaitlyn Choi
- Feb 2, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Kaitlyn Choi
- Jan 26, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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Kaitlyn Choi
- Jan 24, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Kaitlyn Choi
- Jan 4, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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Kaitlyn Choi
- Dec 22, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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Kaitlyn Choi
- Dec 18, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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Kaitlyn Choi
- Dec 16, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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Kaitlyn Choi
- Dec 10, 2020
- 1 min
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?...
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Kaitlyn Choi
- Dec 9, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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Kaitlyn Choi
- Nov 30, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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Kaitlyn Choi
- Nov 30, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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