Bigfoot and UFO remain elusive but know their ways to make news from time to time. Looking at the Google Trends data for both the entities we clearly see the spikes in their news activities. Let us investigate the big spike in the middle for bigfoot As can be seen in this interactive chart, the … Read more
Olive Garden is one of the favorite destination for Italian food and today we got hold of the entire Olive Garden menu along with their nutrition data. A typical meal at Olive Garden starts with a drink, appetizers [free bread sticks], main dish and finally the desert. So going in the same sequence let see … Read more
Microsoft was established in 1975 and it went public in 1986 [in about 11 years] Microsoft’s first acquisition was in 1987 and it has purchased an average of six companies a year. Microsoft has made eight acquisitions worth over one billion dollars: Skype (2011), aQuantive (2007), Fast Search & Transfer (2008), Navision (2002), Visio Corporation … Read more
If number of searches were an indicator for gauging the popularity of a drink between Tea, Coffee, Beer and Wine then who wins the contest? Let us analyze who wins the popularity contest by comparing the number of searches for each of the terms. Data collection method: Each of the keywords Tea, Coffee, Beer and … Read more
In this analysis we gather data from CDC for Marriage and Divorce rates across all the states of USA for past several years. As usual the bulk of the time is consumed in the data gathering, munging and preparation step for the analysis. All the data for each year is manually copy/pasted from the website … Read more
In this article we will take an analytical approach and perform straight analytics on a huge dataset available from https://www.pwcmoneytree.com/. PWC Money tree provides a data dump of all the Venture capital investments from 1995 onwards. Having data that goes far into the history should give us enough to extract the necessary analytical juice out … Read more
This http://www.the-numbers.com/keywords/ website contains lot of statistics related to movies and one important piece of juicy data is that they have categorized the movie listings by keywords. Using this list we try to analyze the popularity of sports in movies. 1. How has the featuring of sports as backdrop or prominent theme increased over the … Read more
Here is a quick data analytics for the bailout money disbursement. Lot of the entities have already paid the amount back to the government with interest and the government has made profits! Government has also lost money on lot of other organizations/companies that failed to repay back. [Click here to see large] The top … Read more