Andreas Weigend, former Chief Scientist for Amazon: Data gathering improves platforms relevance

Consumer data wiz Andreas Weigend explains how platform interfaces for Twitter and others can become more user-friendly.
A former Chief Scientist at Amazon.com and currently a lecturer at Berkeley, Stanford and Tsinghua Universities, Andreas Weigend helps data-intensive organizations make strategic decisions based on analytics and metrics. At Amazon, he developed data mining techniques and designed applications cross-selling and lifecycle analysis. Previously, he co-founded MoodLogic, voted 'best music organizer' by CNET, and was also the Chief Scientist of ShockMarket, creating information products and trading models leveraging principles of behavioral finance. Andreas has published more than one hundred scientific papers and co-authored six books. He studied electrical engineering, physics, and philosophy at Karlsruhe, Cambridge (Trinity College), and Bonn University. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford.
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