Since founding Lincoln Park Strategies, Stefan has put data into action for Fortune 500 companies, foundations, national non-profits, local governments, as well as political candidates at the federal and state level.
Those attempting to put the data into action are stuck, for now, in the lower ranks of the game.
Advances in cognitive computing and deeper machine learning are starting to enable businesses to put this data into action.
These companies may not be household names like Google or Apple, but they are large firms that work behind the scenes collecting data and working with other groups to then parse and put that data into action to better target marketing and advertising to consumers (and sometimes you specifically) in the future.
"We've seen that single-purpose social media monitoring tools frustrate users by making it difficult to put data to use and turn insight into action," writes Ryan Holmes in a blog post.
Managed by O'Driscoll, Public Works is the statewide and local evaluator of the California Department of Education's California Mathematics and Science Partnership (CaMSP) Program and puts CaMSP evaluation data into action by providing support, tools and resources to 55 partnerships that include school districts, county offices and higher education partners throughout California.
"I commend Mayor Eric Garcetti and the City of Los Angeles on the openness, transparency, and availability of city data initiatives, like Vision Zero, put the City of Los Angeles' data into action and improve life in this great city".
"The data commissioner has said that data crimes are real crimes and she is now putting this into action.
Analysts today, whether they call themselves statisticians, physicians, data miners, data scientists, or by any other name, still struggle to make the case for putting analysis into action.
The object was to put analytics power into the hands of business people, enabling them to discover useful patterns in data and put the information into action independently, without the participation of an analytics specialist.
Stage 5: Putting advice into action.
