The Top 20 Companies Where Interns Are The Happiest

Landing a good internship is a strategic way to jumpstart your career. To help you find the right one, career community site Glassdoor analyzed thousands of intern reviews and published a list of the highest-rated internships. "This list specifically targets job seekers hoping to get their foot in the door at companies they might like to work at someday, and gives them a snapshot of which companies other interns appreciate working at most," Scott...

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Facebook's Biggest Problem With Brands Right Now: 'Illegal' Competitions

When Facebook revealed Graph Search to the world last month, a lot of people were excited by the potential it had. While some had concerns about privacy, the general consensus was that the service would be immensely useful as it would finally graph the entirety of Facebook and make the vast quantities of information out there accessible. While resorting to a keyword search would have been the wrong option for Facebook to take – its partnership...

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What Happens To Old Smartphones

What happens to old smartphones when they're no longer being used? They just sit around, for the most part. That's according to a survey by Gazelle, a site that takes trade-ins of old smartphones, tablets and laptops. As you can see in this chart, 51% of people put old smartphones in a drawer or closet, according to Gazelle's research. MarketWatch estimates that all of those old phones sitting around are worth $34 billion. (That's all phones,...

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Simple Tax Error Could Cost You Thousands

The devil is in the details is the lesson from David and Veronda Durden who were denied a $25,000+ deduction on their tax returns for a charitable contribution they made to their church. Why? Because of a simple technicality. The IRS disallowed the deduction, increasing their tax liability by thousands of dollars, because the proof they had confirming the donation didn’t meet all of the IRS’ strict requirements. The most shocking part is that the Tax Court recently ruled in favor of the IRS, leaving no recourse for...

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Analytics Moves To The Core: Reporting from the Gartner Summit

I attended the Gartner Business Intelligence and Analytics Summit last week in Barcelona. As usual, it was a great conference, and it was great to catch up with analysts, colleagues, customers, and competitors. The first morning included a Gartner keynote by James Richardson, Ian Bertram, and Ted Friedman, and a vendor panel. Analytics Moves To The Core BI and Analytics is again the number one technology priority for CIOs in 2013,...

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The Global Nature of Big Data and Analytics

In the past few months, in addition to my usual travel around the United States, I have had the pleasure of visiting both Europe and Asia to meet with customers and discuss analytics and big data. It was very interesting to me how similar the conversations were regardless of where I was in the world. Everyone wants to know what other parts of the world are doing with analytics. People always assume others are ahead of them and are doing more exciting things with data. In reality, most organizations around the world that follow a similar...

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Like it? 1 comments 0 Posted February 16, 2013 Keywords: R script, Valentine's Day

If you haven't sent your loved one a Valentine's Day greeting yet, it's not too late! Thanks to Guillermo Santos who pointed out an R script from Berkeley's Concepts in Computing with Data course, I created the following Valentine's Day card for my husband: If you want to make one for your loved one, you can use the R code below (which I modified slightly from the original): # Source: http://statistics.berkeley.edu/classes/s133/heart.r heart1...

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New Generation of Location Analytics

Business analytics have become mainstream in most organizations. Our latest research in technology innovation found analytics was the top-ranked technology in 39 percent of organizations. To deepen the sophistication of their analytics, businesses can add geographic context and maps to business intelligence applications to create what we call location intelligence. Applications and tools with a geographic and spatial context...

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Now You Can Pay To Promote Your Friends’ Facebook Posts To More People, Even Without Their Permission

Until natural language processing improves, only humans can tell what’s important. So Facebook today starts rolling out the option to pay to promote a friend’s posts and get them seen by more people. This will help critical posts bubble to the top of the feed, and let Facebook earn some money, too. The feature respects privacy controls, but could still make you look like a self-important prick. Facebook began testing the ability to promote...

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Zuckerberg Now Owns 29.3 Percent Of Facebook, Representing $18 Billion

Facebook announced in an SEC filing that founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg now owns 29.3 percent of Facebook shares (NASDAQ:FB), up from a 28.2 percent stake on the day of the IPO. With 632.7 million shares currently trading at $28.50, it represents a bit more than $18 billion. Remaining the largest shareholder is one of Zuckerberg’s most impressive achievements, not only for his personal wealth, but for his voting power as well. Back in May when Facebook started trading, its founder used to own 443 million shares and 60 million unexercised...

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Facebook Wins Court Challenge In Germany Against Its Real Names Policy

Facebook has won a court challenge against its real names policy in Germany. Yesterday an administrative court in the North of Germany granted Facebook’s request for “suspensive effect” against a ruling made by Schleswig-Holstein’s Data Protection Commissioner that Facebook was violating German and European law. The court ruled that German data protection laws aren’t applicable because Facebook has its European headquarters in Ireland — meaning only (the less stringent) Irish data protection laws apply. Back in December the...

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8 Tech Trends for Financial Services for Year 2012

Original Article : http://www.sentronex.com/2013/02/tech-trends-infographic-for-20...

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Hospitals begin to recognize social media’s potential to improve patient experience

“In Canada in health care we’re at a point where most hospitals accept the role of social media for branding and communication, but only the lead adopters are using it for patient engagement and for clinical use.” – Ann Fuller, public relations director,   Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Call up the website home page for any large Canadian hospital and you’ll likely spot the familiar icons that link to the institution’s facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts. Hospitals are inherently conservative institutions and, as such,...

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7 Web Design Mistakes Businesses Make

Your website is the most obvious and basic marketing tool your business has, so it is vital that it is done right. A website that is “done right” is one that reaches your target audience, meets your business goals, and answers your users’ questions, not one that you think 'looks good'. Poorly designed sites translate into instantaneous loss in revenue from potential clients turning away. Avoid this, and grow your bottom line, by avoiding these all too common errors: 1. Lack of Market KnowledgeThis is detrimental to you and your business....

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Samsung Is Planning An 'Enormous' Launch For Its Next Big Phone, The S4

Samsung is planning a huge launch for its next flagship phone, the S4, and it could pull resources away from Apple, says Jefferies analyst Peter Misek. According to Misek's sources, Samsung is planning to build 100 million S4s from launch until the end of the year. He thinks the phone is launched in the March-April time frame. "The enormous 100 million S4 build plan (we estimate the S3 sold 60M) is leading some suppliers to say that they will reallocate resources away from Apple," writes Misek, adding, "The S3 also had enormous builds and...

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Why You Should Never Have More Than Nine Browser Tabs Open

I often hear people complain that their browser is slow and unstable. It's easy to blame browser developers for using sloppy coding practices and not managing memory correctly, but in my experience there's a more common element: people who insist on having dozens of browser tabs open at once. That's an unproductive and pointless practice and everyone should stop it immediately. Open enough browser tabs and it doesn't matter whether you're running Chrome or Firefox or IE or Safari or Opera: your system is going to slow down and eventually...

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