From the NYT:
To help pick the homes for the installation, they turned to a New York start-up, Enigma.io, a specialist in the field of open data, which involves collecting, curating and mining public government information for insights… The goal, said Marc DaCosta, Enigma’s chairman and co-founder, is “to bring open data in as tool of discovery and decision-making, integrated into the day-to-day operations of companies.” [DaCosta is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at UCI.]

For the full story, please visit http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/23/technology/data-mining-start-up-enigma-to-expand-commercial-business.html?_r=1.

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