Eid-ul-Adha Pakistani – Data Dive
Each year on Eid-ul-Adha, Sacrifices of animals are done in every part of the world by Muslims. Here are some details on the Qurbani for the year of 2013 in Pakistan Visual.ly…
View ArticleChris Camillo: Forget Advertising: Twitter’s Data Has Huge Potential
As more companies across multiple industries rely on this data to understand their particular market and customers, the more power Twitter and other data-rich social networks will have to increase...
View ArticleData Viz News [34]
Welcome to another round-up of links to articles, news and resources related to data visualization, data journalism, cartography and other related fields. Lot’s of good stuff today, in the week that we...
View ArticleDreamforce Day 2 Recap: Rainy with a Chance of Data Clouds
Author: Maggie Jones San Francisco may be overcast and gray, but the city’s Financial District has been taken over by perfect blue skies and pillow-y white clouds. Dreamforce 2013, the largest...
View ArticleSocial Advocacy & Politics: Leveraging Publicly Available Social Media Data...
When it comes to social media, it is really hard to hide what you are doing. You can surprise people with your strategy when you launch a campaign, but once it is out there, it is hard to keep what you...
View ArticleBad Data In, Bad Data Out: 5 Steps to a Squeaky Clean Database
Author: Frank Passantino Bad data infiltrates every database, in the form of duplicate contacts, irregularly formatted leads, and junk records. You can’t keep all bad data from entering your database,...
View ArticleDon’t Be a Data Creep: Use Data to Add Value
Author: Dennis Bronnikov Consumers reveal tons of information about themselves on the internet – their gender, geographic location, contact information…the list goes on. They also (mostly...
View ArticleMarketers: Supercharge the Sales Team with Big Data and Social Selling
Author: Glen Gow Because buyers are self-educating early in the sales process, the traditional relationship between buyer and sales rep has been turned completely on its head. Today’s buyer knows what...
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Some of our favorite presentations of 2013 As promised, here we are with many of the presentations that were featured since April, week after week, in this space. Either hosted on Slideshare, Scribd...
View ArticleChevrolet’s Performance Data Recorder turns the Stingray into a track-day...
Chevrolet has unveiled it’s latest addition to the 2015 Corvette Stingray: the Performance Data Recorder. Combined with a digital camera, a GPS, and onboard telemetry, the PDR can help you improve your...
View ArticleReasons to Explore Big Data with Social Media Analytics [VIDEOS]
Did you know that any activity in social media is generating insurmountable data? These big data are just waiting to be explored. In fact, social media now embodies the leading and biggest source of...
View ArticleWill This be the Year of Data Analytics in the Marketing Department?
The 2014 State of Marketing report from Salesforce and ExactTarget offers some intriguing clues on the topic. ExactTarget surveyed 2,651 marketers globally, targeting businesses from small to...
View ArticleNew Daily Dividends Breakdown Data and Panel
We’ve released a new data panel for those that have Premium accounts on Empire which breaks down your last Dividend Payout if you are playing the Social Stocks game. Every day you pay out an amount of...
View ArticleBrilliant insights from the data viz community on Twitter
If you’ve been following our activities for the past years, you know how much we like Twitter. Arguably the most active social network within the data visualization and journalistic communities, the...
View ArticleHow To Analyze Your Competitors Using Social Data
If your business is taking social media seriously, you will have noticed that social media is gradually getting harder to succeed at. This is a natural progression of the channel, and the changes made...
View ArticleSocial Media Sharing: New 2013 Q4 Data Reveals Americans’ Habits [INFOGRAPHIC]
As you may know, Pew Internet has been releasing a “Social Media Update” over the last few years. The Pew research is essential reading for anyone doing social media marketing. But if you want to get...
View ArticleLinkedIn Snatches Up Data Savvy Job Search Startup Bright.com For $120M, In...
Today, alongside a fourth quarter earnings report in which it beat Wall Street estimates yet again, LinkedIn announced its intentions to acquire data-savvy job search startup, Bright.com, for $ 120...
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A big week for visual journalism, with SND35 taking place in Syracuse, and awarding the best editorial design around the world. Besides the hundreds of Award of Excellence (you can browse them in the...
View ArticleKickstarter hacked, user data stolen, credit cards safe
Potentially cause for concern if you are a frequent Kickstarter user or occasional project backer, the crowdfunding site experienced a data breach of user information earlier this week. The post...
View ArticleFacebook loses privacy case in Germany, may help Europeans protect data
Facebook must comply with privacy rules in Germany, a Berlin court ruled this week, even if Facebook has an established presence in the European Union. This may have big implications for data...
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