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

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I spent 10 years creating and running an insurance pricing company, 10 years creating and running a popular email provider called Fastmail, and almost 10 years as a very boring corporate strategy management consultant at McKinsey. And so I started doing that with this management consulting guy. Jeremy Howard : Not much really.

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

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I was also sick of my own curated life on Facebook and thought, there must be a place more interesting than this to hang out online. It was the loss of a dear friend of mine to a brain tumor that was the catalyst behind leaving my job on Wall Street to pursue helping people with these conditions manage their nutritional needs.

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I’ve curated sixteen extremely diverse visualization examples to do that. Bloomberg managed to make it as simple as possible, with valuable built-in context. Follow the story of Louisiana as you reflect on the data. As we have all learned, tools matter a lot less than what we do with the tool. :). Cyprus and Ireland.

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