Data Stories Archive
This archive captures Applied Data Labs' research from 2011–2014. For current research on enterprise AI, visit Operational.AI.
The Quantified Self: Transforming Business, Politics, and Health
How self-tracking data evolved from a niche movement to AI-powered personal analytics.
Data Discovery Tools Roundup
A comprehensive look at data discovery tools and the evolution of self-service analytics.
Headlines
Data and analytics headlines that shaped the industry.
Big Data and Analytics Services
How analytics services have evolved from big data platforms to AI-native solutions.
New Gartner Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms
How the advanced analytics market evolved from 2014 platforms to modern AI solutions.
The Secret Sauce: Turning Data into Money
Data monetization strategies — from basic analytics to AI-driven value creation.
Gartner Splits the 2014 Business Intelligence Magic Quadrant in Two
How the BI market split foreshadowed the modern analytics and AI platform landscape.
How RoboCharm is Using Data to Optimize Customer Interactions
Early AI-powered customer interactions and the path to modern conversational AI.
Big Data and Analytics Consulting
The evolution of data consulting — from big data advisory to AI transformation services.
Business Intelligence Tools Comparison: The Hidden Side of Gartner
A critical look at BI tool evaluations and analyst influence on enterprise technology decisions.
How to Increase Sales by Looking at Your Customer Data
Using customer data to drive sales — from basic analytics to AI-powered revenue intelligence.
How to Increase Conversions Using Your Data
Data-driven conversion optimization — from basic analytics to AI-powered personalization.
Technology's Impact on Healthcare
The ongoing impact of technology on healthcare — from electronic records to AI diagnostics.
Sales Analytics Blueprint
Building a sales analytics foundation — from dashboards to AI-powered revenue intelligence.
Google Wants to Help You Live Longer
From Calico to modern healthtech — how tech giants are using AI to extend human life.
Data Discovery
Understanding data discovery — the foundation of modern analytics and AI-driven insights.
Andreas Weigend and the Future of Social Data
How social data evolved into the AI training data economy.
Gaming the Stock Market: How One Company Uses Gamification to Beat the Odds
AI in fintech — algorithmic trading and gamification in enterprise adoption.
IBM's Watson and the Future of Healthcare Analytics
The full arc from Watson to modern healthcare AI — a bridge to operational AI in regulated industries.
Microsoft InfoNavigator
Microsoft's AI evolution — from InfoNavigator to Copilot.
What Higher Education Teaches Us About Data-Driven Customer Retention
Lessons from higher education analytics applied to enterprise customer retention and AI.
The Growing Collaborative Consumption Market
How the sharing economy evolved and what data-driven platforms teach us about AI adoption.
How and Why the Government is Stalking You
Government surveillance in the AI era — from CIA social media monitoring to modern AI-powered surveillance.
Data Discovery Tools Comparison
Comparing data discovery tools — from 2013 platforms to AI-native analytics solutions.
Data Mining Techniques
Core data mining techniques and their evolution into modern machine learning and AI methods.
Data Discovery Tools: 2012 Roundup
A retrospective look at data discovery tools and how they evolved into modern AI analytics platforms.
The New Reality of Business Intelligence and Big Data
From business intelligence to operational AI — the evolution of data-driven decision making.
How Big Data and Analytics Will Change Society
The societal impact of data analytics — predictions from 2013 and where we are now.
Heads Watch Data Lock
Data lock-in and vendor dependency in the AI era — strategic considerations for enterprise technology.
How Much Data is Facebook Tracking?
The scale of social media data collection — from Facebook tracking to modern AI data harvesting.
Big Data and Government Transparency
How technology reshapes government transparency — from open data portals to AI-driven accountability.
How Facebook's Graph Search Will Affect Google, Technology, and Privacy
The evolution of social search — from Facebook Graph Search to AI-powered discovery.
Obama, Big Data, and the Fiscal Cliff
How political data science pioneered techniques now used in enterprise AI.
Convention vs Analytics: Moneyball
How data-driven decision making disrupts conventional wisdom — from baseball to enterprise AI.
Drug Data Reveals Sneaky Side Effects
How data mining finds hidden drug interactions that clinical trials miss -- from 2012 studies to modern AI pharmacovigilance.
Data Mining the Dairy
How data mining transforms traditional industries — from dairy farming to AI-driven agriculture.
Do I Taste Data Science in My Soup?
How data science infiltrates everyday life — from food to consumer products.
The Hidden Side of Ingress
How augmented reality games crowdsource data and what that means for privacy in the AI era.
Enjoy Your Free Gift
The hidden cost of free services — how consumer data became the currency of the digital economy.
How Data Intelligence is Remaking Industries
Data intelligence across industries — how AI continues the transformation that big data started.
Hacking Jeopardy
The story of AI game shows — from Watson on Jeopardy to modern language models.
Target Knows, It Shows
Predictive analytics and personalization in the AI era — from Target to today.
The Future of Big Data and Analytics
Predictions about big data from 2012 — what we got right and what surprised everyone.
Teaching the Discipline of the Data Industry
How data education has evolved — from early programs to AI-native curricula.
What is Data Discovery?
Understanding data discovery and its evolution into AI-augmented analytics.
Business Intelligence vs Data Discovery
A comprehensive comparison of BI, data discovery, and AI-driven analytics for 2026.
Negative Affinity: Anger and Conflict on Social Media
How negative emotions spread on social media — and what AI sentiment analysis reveals.
Indoor Positioning System Becoming Reality with Broadcom's New Chip
How indoor positioning technology evolved from chips to AI-powered location intelligence.
The Future of Social Business: Domo's Experiment
Domo's social business experiment and the evolution of social enterprise software.
Data War: Google vs Facebook
The data competition between tech giants and what it means for enterprise data strategy.
The Fusion Project
Data fusion from 2012 public datasets to modern AI-powered data integration pipelines.
US Government Moves to Promote Startups
How government support for tech startups evolved into AI innovation programs.
What is Data Mining?
Data mining from supermarket basket analysis to large language models -- the core concepts survived even as everything else changed.
What is Big Data?
The rise and quiet death of 'Big Data' as a buzzword -- and how its core ideas evolved into modern data engineering and AI.
What is People Analytics
People analytics in the age of AI — from HR dashboards to intelligent workforce systems.
White House Investing Big in Big Data
Government AI investment — from early big data initiatives to modern federal AI mandates.
Can Algorithms Lead to True Love?
The data science behind matchmaking — from dating algorithms to AI-powered relationship insights.
Data Warfare
How data became a strategic asset — from competitive intelligence to AI-driven business strategy.
Emotion Monitoring: Closer Than You Think
How emotion recognition technology evolved from concept to AI-powered reality.
How Legos Became a Data Tool at GM
Creative approaches to data visualization and how physical tools inform digital analytics.
Humanizing Data
The art of making data meaningful — from visualization to AI-powered storytelling.
Revealing Data Possibilities Through Touch
Tactile data interfaces and the evolution of data interaction from touch to voice and AI.
The Technological Transformation of Medicine
How technology is transforming medicine — from early health IT to AI-powered diagnostics.
Visualizing Your Social Data
From social data visualization to AI-powered insights — making sense of digital interactions.
Beware the Hype Over Big Data Analytics
Separating substance from hype in data analytics — lessons that still apply to the AI era.
Hadoop
Hadoop's rise and fall -- from the hottest technology in big data to a cautionary tale about hype cycles.
Logistics: Big Data Architecture and Deployment
From 2012 big data stacks to modern cloud-native AI infrastructure -- how data architecture deployment evolved.
Google Cafeterias: A Data-Driven Approach
How Google uses data science to optimize everything — even its cafeterias.
Do You Need to Learn More About Analytics?
The case for analytics literacy — why understanding data is essential in the AI age.