The extremely low figures, though a partial snapshot, fall far short of the seven million enrollments the administration is hoping for by 1 March, and may help explain why it has been reticent to release sign-up data until now.
This is the news contained in new Obamacare marketplace sign-up data that the Department of Health and Human Services just released, which includes a state-by-state breakdown of sign-ups that wasn't previously available.
The White House has said it will not reveal official sign-up data for this critical phase until the middle of next month, but Obama boasted during his end-of-year press conference on Friday that half a million Americans had signed up in the first three weeks of December across state and federal exchanges.
Although Betterment hasn't shared sign-up data, the company is prepared for 10,000 to 100,000 Uber drivers signing up per day.
At this point in time I'm actually happy to trade new newsletter sign-ups, data and the ability to control discounts for those lost sales.
One reason companies sign up for data integration services is to get data ready for machine learning algorithms, since those algorithms are only as good as their training data.
Although U.S. carriers to date have been reluctant to move toward pay-as-you-go models, Raleigh said ItsOn could help on-board millions of customers who would otherwise be hesitant to sign up for data plans.
AT&T seems to use throttling to encourage unlimited data customers to sign up for tiered data plans, which make them pay for as much data as they use and can be more expensive for heavy users.
A few crowdsourcing platforms, like Kaggle, now allow thousands of data scientists to sign up for big data projects.
By now, we're familiar with this pattern: a company discloses a data theft, executives express grave concern, and customers are left to reset their passwords and sign up for free data protection, feeling all the while like data piñatas.
