[7] According to Wired Magazine, “Eagle's algorithms were able to predict what people -- especially professors and Media Lab employees -- would do next and be right up to 85 percent of the time.”[8] This work illustrated how mobile phones can be used to collect accurate, large-scale data about real social interactions.

[16][17] Eagle's book from MIT Press, Reality Mining: Using Big Data to Engineer a Better World, won the 2015 American Publishers PROSE Award.

[20] The service originally enabled people in emerging markets to earn small amounts of money by completing simple tasks for organizations such as the United Nations and the World Bank.

[24] Eagle led Jana to profitability in 2015,[12] in large part due to partnerships with technology companies including Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and Amazon.

[25][26] Eagle subsequently raised an additional $57 million round of funding led by Verizon, with Tim Armstrong joining the advisory board, expanding Jana's service to 90 countries though partnerships with 311 mobile operators.