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General Mills Builds Up Big Data to Answer Big Questions

May 29, 2015 | Michael Fitzgerald | Data, AI, & Machine Learning

General Mills brought a data scientist into its Consumer Insights group because it wanted to use its existing data more effectively. The company thought it was making decisions based too much on outside data at the expense of what it knew. But figuring out what the company actually knew about its consumers was the challenge facing Wayde Fleener as he came on board. In an interview with MIT SMR's Michael Fitzgerald, Fleener talks about how he got started in building a Big Data practice within his division.

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