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Looking to the use cases of big data

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Tracking disease epidemics – GigaOM tracks the story of how Twitter tracked a recent outbreak of cholera in Haiti and how that can be of use to aid agencies. Ultimately I see this as a subset of the 3. Virtual assistants. There are numerous examples now of social media being used to good effect in crisis situations which is great.

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17 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

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Launched from Haiti and scaled across Latin America- the social enterprise aims to digitize the $10trillion street vending industry and leverage tourism to alleviate 2 billion people out of poverty. Vendedy is the first mobile network connecting global travelers to street vendors of the developing world. 4) Several Reasons.

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