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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

And then this thing called Microsoft Access came out, which I learned was this thing called a database. In fact, largely I was plagiarizing from a guy called Petr Ludwig who had already done all this in the Czech Republic. Everybody in the Czech Republic is wearing masks." And I did and he was thrilled.

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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

Skype is probably the most famous of them, but there are a lot of other examples including Game Insights, Kaspersky and Parallels in Russia, LogMeIn and Prezi in Hungary and Avast and AVG in the Czech Republic. Large volume of structured data can stored in relational databases and accessed quickly by queries. Why Eastern Europe?

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Spam Laws, Email Marketing, and Compliance

Duct Tape Marketing

Czech Republic – Act No. MailChimp took a random sample from 30,000 users in its database who had sent at least ten email campaigns, looking for improved email marketing stats from double opt-ins. China – Measures for Administration of E-Mail Service on The Internet (2006). percent increase in email opens.

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