Can you use big data to measure music experience in a smart city? 

In this study, Dialogic investigated what data sources could be used to measure music experience in the municipality of Eindhoven, the Netherlands. We created a list of 50 data sources with potentially interesting data. Each data source was evaluated against 11 criteria for usefulness, such as complexity, accessibility, restrictions, security and availability. On the …

All schools, ranked

Allschoolsranked.com provides quantitative data on business school performance from multiple established business school rankings. Using this data, business schools can improve their strategic positioning in the competitive market for business education. Many different business school rankings exist. Although metrics and performance measurements should not be a goal per se, it is …

Automated analysis of entrepreneur questions

Each month the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KvK) receives thousands of questions from (future) entrepreneurs on topics such as financing, innovation and internationalization. The Chamber of Commerce likes to meet the current information demand of entrepreneurs and therefore asked Dialogic to develop a methodology to analyze these questions automated. The data consists mainly of …

Algorithmically picking the best fiber network out of 281,474,976,710,656 possible combinations

In 2011, a large Dutch national electricity transmission system operator (TSO) approached our consultancy firm for strategic advice and support on the realization of a national fiber network (this was a year before I became involved, so much of the hard, smart work was already done by the time I came …