At betaworks, our focus and expertise lies in understanding and leveraging the real-time web to create superb products, great API’s and profitable businesses. With tens of millions of daily bit.ly decodes, Chartbeat pings and messages on Twitter, the amount of data that flows into betaworks-backed companies is staggering. We at betaworks understand the tremendous value embedded within this data and are consistently mining the data to create and improve new products, features and ultimately, entire business lines. For more information about betaworks and its affiliated companies, please visit our main page at www.betaworks.com.
The data@beta blog will serve as our outlet to share interesting insights that we have gleaned from our data, as well as provide a small window into the way in which we use data to enhance our businesses. Topics and goals range from general market overviews to data-driven recommendations designed to enhance one’s business to posts devoted to fun, interesting, or simply wacky subjects. We’d love to hear your feedback as well as ideas for what you’d like to see on the blog. Feel free to email us at data at betaworks dot com.
Isaac Greenbaum
Director of Quantitative Analysis, betaworks Scientist
(isaac@betaworks.com, @isaacgreenbaum)
Isaac joined betaworks in May 2010 as the Director of Quantitative Analysis and betaworks Scientist. In this capacity, he provides quantitative support to betaworks’ member companies, analyzes data to identify useful trends, features and products, and helps provide a clearer picture of the competitive landscape in which these companies operate.
Prior to joining the amazing team at betaworks, Isaac graduated with an MS in Computer Science from Columbia University with a focus on Machine Learning. Before that, he worked for two years as an analyst in Citigroup’s Portfolio and Exotics Credit Derivatives group specializing in Synthetic corporate CDOs. In 2006, Isaac graduated summa cum laude and as valedictorian at Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences with a degree in Applied Mathematics.
Hilary Mason
Lead Scientist, bit.ly
Hilary is the lead scientist at bit.ly, where she spends her time finding sense in large streams of data.
Prior to joining bit.ly, she held position as the Chief Scientist at Path101 and an assistant professor of computer science at Johnson & Wales University.