Using all sorts of data points related to fuel consumption, routes, and times of day companies can give their drivers more efficient routes and cut down on hard braking, hard acceleration, and idling, the three biggest wastes of fuel and contributors to CO2 emissions.

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But a related mission was to find out how best to explain the idea of operational intelligence, the idea of using machine data for business purposes.

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On Wednesday, Dan Geer, Alex Hutton and Greg Shannon plan to give a talk at the cybersecurity-focused conference SOURCE in Boston on using prediction markets to gain foresight into future events in cryptography research, cyber threats, and even data security-related regulation.

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