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The story of how a SF Bay Area startup embraced government technology and civic innovation Technology startups in the San Francisco Bay Area, in Silicon Valley, the global hot spot for innovation, do not particularly have it easy. Each day, we see, hear and read about the many challenges faced
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Mobile marketers analyze billions of anonymized and aggregated mobile location signals or geo-cookies each day to understand why people are where they are and what is on their minds. > Just like web browsers use cookies for identifying users, location is the geo-cookie for knowing your mobile users in the
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A few weekends ago, across the U.S. and across the world, women marched and protested against the misogyny of Donald Trump. It comes as no surprise that, within the U.S., these marches sprung largely from urban counties and states that voted for Hillary Clinton. FiveThirtyEight [https://fivethirtyeight.com/
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The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election left people on both sides of the political aisle very surprised. Many media outlets, pollsters and political predictors hadn’t seen it coming. Since then, several articles have investigated the relative shock of the election using the frameworks of social media bubbles [https://www.
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CITYDATA.ai had the distinguished honor of being invited by President Barack Obama's Office of Science and Technology Policy [https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp] to the White House Smart Cities Roundtable. The event was graced by the CTOs and CIOs of the top 10 cities and
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What do city parks, mobile intelligence, and machine learning have in common? CITYDATA! CITYDATA.ai was featured at STIR [https://startupinresidence.org/] Demo Day in San Francisco last week. We showcased our "People Intelligence" platform for the public sector: smart cities and local government. Many cities have embraced
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The Silicon Valley world of top tech companies and startups often comes under fire for being too male, too white and too wealthy. For several years, the privileged group of tech workers in the Bay has continued to gentrify many San Francisco neighborhoods. Subsequently rising rents and new, high-end restaurants/
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One in five people already block mobile ads. 70 million Americans will turn on an ad blocker on their mobile device in 2016. That number will jump to 87 million in 2017, per eMarketer. On a global scale, the numbers are staggering. PageFair revealed that 418 million mobile users already
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From the 1950s onward, the U.S. has been a nation of car commuters. Our country developed alongside the rise of the automobile and the present-day urban geography reflects the car's influence. With an average daily commute of 25.4 minutes, 85% of Americans still drive to work
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C [http://lotadata.com/]ITYDATA.ai transforms time and place into actionable context for smart cities, enterprise businesses, mobile apps and wearables. STIR 2016 One of the few companies selected to join STIR 2016, CITYDATA will bring location intelligence, predictive analytics and machine learning capabilities to the program. The STIR
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History Dallas is "the city without a reason to exist," the city that built itself up from its bootstraps. Thanks to the determined grit of early settlers, Dallas had the chance to thrive. Capitalizing on the opportunity, Dallas slowly grew into the main economic powerhouse of North Texas.
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Mobile gamers are an interesting bunch. We should know. We are them. The typical mobile gaming session transpires at home and at work, through commutes, across multiple different places and venues, intertwining in-game experiences with real world and real life happenings. We give props to Google for correctly identifying this