Category Archives: Statistics
What Will Make You a Big Data Leader?
The IBM Institute for Business Value’s 2013 analytics survey surveyed 900 business and IT executives from 70 countries. “Leaders” (19% of the sample) were respondents self identified as “substantially outperforming their market or industry peers” in a question used by the IBM Institute for Business … Continue reading
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Gen Z: Statistics, Data and Trends (2024)
Generation Z also commonly known as “Gen Z” is a generation where people were born between 1997 to 2012. The youngest individuals in Gen Z are still in school, while the oldest are passing out college and entering the workforce. … Continue reading
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Big Data: Who, Why, and How (Infographic)
“Early adopters of Big Data analytics have gained a significant lead over the rest of the corporate world. Examining more than 400 large companies, we found that those with the most advanced analytics capabilities are outperforming competitors by wide margins.” … Continue reading
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What Happens on the Web in 60 Seconds (Infographic)
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Worldwide Daily Social Media Usage (New 2024 Data)
Social Media has become a part of our daily lives as we have become addicted to posting and updating everyone regarding our day-to-day moments through these platforms. Apart from posting, most people also consume these social media platforms for communication, … Continue reading
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Internet Traffic from Mobile Devices Stats (2024)
Mobile Devices are one of the most preferred device types utilized by users across the world to access the internet. Today, internet users can access different types of websites, apps, and other activities using their mobile devices from any part … Continue reading
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Data visualization: Plotting life expectancy against income for 200 countries over 200 years
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo?rel=0] Hans Rosling’s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport’s commentator’s style to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has … Continue reading
On Data Janitors, Engineers, and Statistics
Big Data Borat tweeted recently that “Data Science is 99% preparation, 1% misinterpretation.” Commenting on the 99% part, Cloudera’s Josh Wills says: “I’m a data janitor. That’s the sexiest job of the 21st century. It’s very flattering, but it’s also a little … Continue reading
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Cool Data Scientists on Campus
Hal Varian: “Data availability is going to continue to grow. To make that data useful is a challenge. It’s generally going to require human beings to do it.” Source: Carl Bialik, “Data Crunchers Now the Cool Kids on Campus,” The Wall … Continue reading
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Big Data Quotes of the Week
“Data is everywhere. It exists. We’re just pulling it into one place and our goal is to make it consumable for teachers”–Fahad Hassan, Always Prepped “A lot of people are changing their title, but they’re not really data scientists, and … Continue reading
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