Dive Summary:
- DJ Patil, a data scientist at Greylock Partners, spoke at GTM Research’s Soft Grid conference in San Francisco Wednesday, encouraging utilities to pay attention to Facebook, Google and LinkedIn when deciding how to share data with their customers.
- “Your dashboard should look nice, with nice colors and contrast," Patil said, according to a GigaOM report. "You should make the data sexy and fun."
- Patil said data should be presented in a meaningful way, such as when Amazon shows a shows a shopper what similar customers bought or when LinkedIn tells users who in their networks has recently changed jobs.
From the article:
What’s the key to making energy data interesting, and more importantly, able to influence behavior? DJ Patil, data scientist extraordinaire at Greylock Partners and previously at LinkedIn, doled out some tips at GTM Research’s Soft Grid conference in San Francisco Wednesday, including telling the audience to look to some of the techniques that Internet giants like Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Amazon are already using. ...
