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What are the secrets behind the world's most successful salespeople? Uncover the hidden truths with 107 statistics that explain the method to their madness.
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Knowledge is power.
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Dataminr, a startup that parses and crawls the vast glut of real-time informatio posted on social media sites like Twitter to extract key developments for..
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A real big data company, dataminr goes through twitter and many other sources to perform real-time information discovery. WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT This solution goes beyond making nice charts and delivers predictions based on a myriad of sources. It may be the tip of the iceberg to provide companies with early warming signs of impending doom or success.
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Google trends now an even more useful tool for insights with real-time updates and other improvements.
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A higher prevalence of obesity in Northern and Eastern Europe United Kingdom, Iceland and Scandinavian countries, except for Sweden, are in the group of the countries most concerned with overweight and obesity issues. Is it because of the climate or due to eating habits? Some of them are among the wealthiest countries. With a prevalence …
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Data gathered with a simple device - the withings connected scale - can provide evidence of obesity and where it is most prevalent in Europe.
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From
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Instead of staying up binging on House of Cards, celebrate sleep week by pledging to go to bed early. It'll help your body and mind get the sleep it needs.
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fascinating what data from many people can tell us.
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An overview of the impact of the end of year festivities on health: sleep, weight and physical activity
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No surprise in the data: people go to bed late on xmas and new year and wake up later the next morning. But the difference in each country seems to demonstrate that Americans don't party a lot and that French party more than many others. Here again, no surprise... ;-)
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June 2, 2015 5:16 PM
thank you @Hany Aly @Vandana Verma. Feel free to recommend my topic
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Les bracelets d'entraînement, c'est pratique. Mais la technologie sportive, c'est bien plus : dérailleurs intelligents, piratage potentiel et capteurs pour visualiser...
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May 26, 2015 7:23 PM
Merci @Edwin Waldner @Miles Munroe @Sheldon Shelly. N'hésitez pas à recommander mon topic dans scoop.it ce sera très apprécié!
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May 13, 2015 | Vidya Subramanian
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Health and fitness are top apps growth in Canada. Interesting...
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May 25, 2015 3:13 PM
Thank you @John Rumball @Jane Shamcey @Maria Rogstrand. Please recommend my topic if you can!
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The Customer Journey to Online Purchase: an interactive infographic that explores typical customer behavior to improve marketing programs.
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useful tool provides insights on customer behavior in different industries. May be useful to help plan your digital interactions.
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Considering that a lot of people are treating their dogs better than some humans, I see the rise of products to quantify your dog or any other pet a growth industry. More on quantified self here: http://bit.ly/1ECOYHW.
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Last week, tech companies offered the web their April Fool's "jokes," like cats with dead mice, and we all sort of uncomfortably nodded. It's never been harder to discern a facetious idea from the genuine article than right now--and when "Fitbit for your pet" is considered a real business, who's to say what's a joke anymore?
Farid Mheir's insight:
Considering that a lot of people are treating their dogs better than some humans, I see the rise of products to quantify your dog or any other pet a growth industry. More on quantified self here: http://bit.ly/1ECOYHW.
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A new device called the Silent Herdsman can remotely monitor dairy cow libido, so farmers can "maximize the probability of pregnancy."
Farid Mheir's insight:
I've been getting huge pushback from people when I suggest we should all lead quantified lives (http://sco.lt/5Iumx7). This is mostly due to privacy concerns which, I must admit, sound valid to me too. However, if you apply the same principles and technologies to animals, the whole concept becomes a lot more interesting, doesn't it? Soon we may even see cows wearing apple watches... or not! ;-)
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In our latest analysis, we found that retention rates of messaging apps out-performed the average of all apps. Messaging app retention is 1.9 times better than the average for one-month retention and 5.6 times better than the average for 12-month retention. The chart below shows the average retention of messaging apps compared with the the average retention of all apps over one month, two month, three months, six months and 12 months. Here we define retention as users who launched the app “n” months after install. The below chart considers new user cohorts from from January 2014 - January 2015.
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I would argue the real message in these charts is that most mobile apps have failed to deliver a good user experience or are very badly created/updated. With every company going mobile, this chart should speak volume to any executive about to spend 100K$ or more for its next app. Read this post to understand why retention rate is so low Why pixels is not always the answer http://bit.ly/1MvzvNy via @Estelle Metayer
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I wrote about them in the past http://sco.lt/7FRff7 and I realize now that they are expanding their service offers into many other fields, including fitness which makes the whole solution way more personalized. Companies should take notice as they try to get more and more personal with their customers.
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Your shopping habits reveal even the most personal information — like when you’re going to have a baby.
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Deep dive into the world of retail analytics where buying behaviour is dissected and analyzed. Provides an example where Target was able to successfully identify that a teenager was pregnant before she told anyone. Which led her parents to discover the truth when they started received coupons for baby care products in the mail. Spooky but considering what I know and that the article was written 3 years ago, this is, unfortunately, old news with old technology. Today, we are much better at it... Must read.
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Via Yves Mulkers
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Meet the man who built the awesome online attendance system for India’s government officials via @qz
From
qz
Ram Sewak Sharma is a silver-haired, straight-talking bureaucrat who spent much of the last five years working out of an office near New Delhi's Connaught Place. Next door to him sat Nandan Nilekani, the former Infosys CEO.
Farid Mheir's insight:
This system sounds like the ultimate in control: publicly posting employee attendance online. Made possible by cheap fingerprint scanners and easy to use database reporting. Most interesting because it was introduced in India and deployed in a few months by a team of 2.I can easily see the uproar if this was deployed in Quebec!
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Summer is peak season for home buying. This means businesses—from realtors to retailers—must be relevant and useful by understanding modern home buyers. What are they looking for? How do they find it? As real estate searching hit a high this year, we took a look at Google and YouTube data to see what we could unlock.
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Stil wondering what Big Data is all about? Well here is a good example, coming straight from Google. It shows the kind of analysis one can perform when looking at millions of google searches focussed around the house hunting theme. It can be a good indicator of market interest - and sometimes even provide early indicators as is the case with flu trends can be predicted by Google earlier than the CDC with as much precision. The data can also be used to analyze differences in behaviour between age groups, regions, and other criteria. This is only possible because of the large dataset as it provides sufficient data to see meaningful patterns emerge. It can even show correlations that may be meaningful in related fields, here between real estate and interior design. Also worth reading to understand the power of BigData: - jawbone insight into recent earthquake: How did the Napa earthquake affect sleep? http://sco.lt/5S733Z - Bedtime Stories: Learning from Sleep Data- from #jawbone #StrataConf 2014 via @mrogati http://sco.lt/98dV8D - google flu trends http://sco.lt/5x6g4n
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The Napa Earthquake was the strongest to hit Northern California in 25 years. See how it impacted the sleep of UP wearers in the Bay Area.
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Data from wearable technologies can be mined in many different ways, here indicating the impact of an earthquake based on distance from epicenter. Wearables are starting to provide insights into phenomenons that they may not have been designed to do, and this is just the beginning. Similar to a story earlier this year from jawbone as well. Bedtime Stories: Learning from Sleep Data- from #jawbone #StrataConf 2014 via @mrogati http://sco.lt/98dV8D
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Life quantification pioneer Nicholas Felton's latest annual report is his most ambitious to date. For the last nine years, Nicholas Felton--who you may know best for inspiring the Facebook timeline or creating the life-logging app Reporter--has been recording some aspect of almost every moment of his life. And each year, he turns this data into a elegant, printed book that visualizes the year called The Feltron Report... Via Lauren Moss
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The Felton report is a beautiful peeping hole into someone's life when they start to quantify themselves. Focussed on fairly benign problem space - conversations during the year - it shows what possibilities, both good and bad, lie within the quantified-self movement which is bound to explode with the availability of Apple watch and others alike. Of course it brings tremendous opportunities for monitoring someone's life in order to improve it. Whether it is by measuring exercice (as we do today with step trackers) or heart rate or glucose levels in order to improve health or medical diagnosis. In the context of business, organizations can monitor employees in order to minimize injuries or prevent illness and time loss due to sickness. There is of course the dark side, where all this data, when made available without our consent or knowledge, can be used to track us and restrict our privacy or our rights. This is already happening in the contexte of government surveillance (ie. Edward Snowden http://sco.lt/5k4B29) or internet browsing tracking (ie. data brokers http://sco.lt/79yNZh)
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This chart illustrates how interactions with branded content on Facebook correlate with reach.
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This chart demonstrates that you have 86x more reach if you pay Facebook to promote your content, but only if that content generates interactions - likes, comments, shares, etc.
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Presented by Manuel Sevilla, Global CTO Business Information Management April 2014, Teradata Universe
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Very good overview of big data with a few good slides that summarize context and opportunities.
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Using the internet can destroy your faith. That’s the conclusion of a study showing that the dramatic drop in religious affiliation in the US since 1990 is closely mirrored by the increase in internet use.
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Along the same lines of a previous post #Countries With More #Money Tend To Be More #Godless via @bi http://sco.lt/5lMicT This one however brings a very good analysis of the possible reasons for the correlation, along with remaining unknowns. That being said, with all the media attention around "la charte des valeurs" in Quebec, US religious growth in the US politics, and of course all the more extreme religious countries, especially in the middle east, one can only wonder where the discrepancy with these data points comes from?
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Data is crucial to our lives, but it can be hard to make sense of. That’s what makes these visualization tools potentially transformative.
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A high level overview of 4 tools to simplify your data visualization, from inboxes (immersion) to country's cultural impact (Pantheon). For those interested, I wrote about Immersion in the context of information privacy earlier last year. Immersion: a people-centric view of your email life- creepy privacy concerns & competitive intelligence via @mit http://sco.lt/4jOh61
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