Long-form articles Lutz Finger has published on LinkedIn Pulse since 2014: data products, social-media analytics, AI strategy, founder stories. Each card opens the original article on LinkedIn.
2026
2025
Internship: Growth Marketing Hacker
R2Decide is looking for you - the MBA with the marketing skills that wants to dip their toes into the world of AI and e-commerce. Join us this summer as a Growth Marketing Hacker. This is not your average internship.
No-AGI
There will be no AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) in 2025, no matter what Sam Altman or others claim. The concept of AGI revolves around the idea that AI can operate independently, like a human, adapting to tasks across diverse…
2024
2022
2017
Should You Airbnb Or Sell Your Property — Big Data Helps
Data-driven decision making is a practice in many commercial industries now. But especially the real estate industry is using data. Companies like Zillow or Redfin provide estimates of a given house in a given neighborhood for renters and…
How A Small Restaurant Can Use Its Data
How can small businesses leverage point of sale data to make informed decisions? Big Data sounds often like Big Business, but the power of data is available even to small businesses without extensive resources.
Uber Data Determine The Best Food Places In New York City
Anyone who lives in the Ditmars neighborhood of Astoria, Queens will speak fondly of El Rey Del Taco, a neighborhood favorite food late night food truck that often has a line down the block.
2016
Life In Data - The Tasks Of A Data Scientist
Do you want to work in data? What does this mean? For the last 3 years I was at one of the coolest companies in the data space: LinkedIn! LinkedIn has amazing data assets and they have been at the forefront of data science.
Wer kann was? Europakarte der Fähigkeiten
Deutsche sind immer pünktlich, Franzosen haben den besten Wein und Italiener machen die leckersten Spaghetti – was einzelne Nationalitäten angeht, haben wir alle ganz bestimmte Bilder im Kopf.
Racial Injustice In NYC Revealed By Data
Every morning, New York City police officers receive insights from computers, directing them to areas where crime is likely to occur. If that sounds similar to the 2002 sci-fi movie Minority Report, it’s because it is quite similar.
The Force Awakens In Data - Industry Leaders Comment
How does the latest “Star Wars” movie parallel with the data industry? Both have a force that awakens. However, while Rey, the tough scavenger in “Star Wars” (played well by Daisy Ridley), saw her force come to life in less then 30min, the…
2015
How Cornell Trains Future Data Managers
How do you create amazing new data driven products! By studying deep, deeper and the deepest machine learning algorithms? Nope – by enabling business folks to talk and think data . Recently I had the opportunity to test this theory.
Why LinkedIn Is As Important As The Capital Market
Recently, my favorite INSEAD Professor, Kevin Kaiser, came over to LinkedIn with a group of executives from around the world. We chatted about value creation in Silicon Valley.
How To Spot Social Media Bots - They Are Often Lonely
Social media bots have become an increasingly challenging issue. They can trick you into buying stuff or even influence your opinion (read more about the trouble they can cause here).
Why President Obama Needs A Chief Data Scientist
During this year’s STRATA conference, President Obama introduced Dr. DJ Patil as his new Chief Data Scientist in a video message. DJ is a very well known data scientist and is even credited by some with coining the term “data science”.
Do Evil - The Business Of Social Media Bots
Warning: reading this might lead you to lose faith in the media and marketing world! Oh – you didn’t really trust them to begin with? Well, let’s dig right in and meet the now-removed Twitter account from @AIAGW.
Predictive Analytics - A Case For Private Equity?
Framed Data raises $2M, 6Sense raises $12M, Reflektion raises $8M… The list goes on and on. What these companies have in common, aside from multi-million dollar investments, is that they are all in the market of predictive analytics.
2014
Give Me The Data! Why So Many Data Ideas Fail
To build a data product you need to have the right data. This sounds simple, but it is often forgotten by entrepreneurs or top managers alike. Data should not be confused with the product or the business question that makes it powerful.
Our Future: Free Will vs. Predictions with Data
What is the future of big data? It will be all about predictions! Predictions based on data has come into our world and we often do not even know it.
The Reason Why We Love Big Data: Recommendations
Recommendation Engines have gained the most attention in the Big Data world. Why is that? Big Data has created three distinct types of data driven products: Data used to Benchmark Data used for Recommendation and Filter systems Data used…
3 Data Products You Need To Know
Today we see discussions on Big Data everywhere. Big Data - so has been the promise since 2011, when this hype started - surrounds all of us and will yield to new products - DATA PRODUCTS.
Data can fail us - like Brazil did
Germany defeated Brazil in the World Cup semi-finals. It was a brutal 7-1 drubbing and totally was unexpected! What does this tell us about data? Many of us who work with data hail the possibilities (see the Age of the Algorithm).
Rule the World with Small Data
I was recently asked to “outline a vision of what Big Data may do in the future” for a book published by Dave Coplin - Microsoft's Chief Envisioning Officer. Yes, it’s time for a vision but not on Big but on Small Data.
The Age of the Algorithms - SxSW summary
South by South West Interactive (SxSW) is no ordinary conference. It is a festival and platform that allows showcasing the fusion of content with technology.
STRATA 2014 - Data Demystified
"Data Demystified" is the best way to describe this year’s Strata Conference. The data conference STRATA has grown substantially: more visitors, more talks, more vendors at the exhibitions, and more space.