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Discussion on: Why Instant Grocery Delivery Should Follow a Data-Driven Path Like Uber to Survive (Part 1)

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Max Ong Zong Bao

Sometimes you don't really need data science for it. You can just ask around to gather info in the neighbourhood to form a delivery route while making adjustments along way.

This is one way that a Mobile Delivery Supermarket Entrepreneur did in Japan for Rural Areas by just his gut feeling

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kuwala

Thats so true and even in highly scaled startups sometimes the case that a person with local expertise is scouted. However, especially when it comes to a gut feeling for "cities" the opportunity costs are hidden. When the competitive pressure is high I believe data intelligence makes the difference

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Max Ong Zong Bao

Nah, there's a new term called open source intelligence. You can get intelligence without all the data sci work from public available data.

Which with the right context and a good investigator/analyst you get knowledge or wisdom out of it.

This was used by intelligence agencies before Data Science was used. The intelligence community only started to use data science when they had tons of data to analyse but lack the amount of manpower to do it.