We're now hearing from David Soloff, CEO of Premise, about how microdata can make a big impact on macroeconomics. His company is using crowdsourcing to bring economic indicators into the age of globalization and real-time data. Armed only with smartphones, Premise’s volunteers take pictures that are potentially worth – you guessed it – billions of dollars. I told you this Big Data thing could be monetized, didn't I?
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