What is the most dangerous food at Olive Garden?

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

List of acquisitions by Microsoft – a data journey

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

Popularity of Tea, Coffee, Beer and Wine – Visualization

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

InfoCaptor does Big Data with Cloudera Impala and Hive

InfoCaptor now officially works and certified with Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution and specifically with Hive and Impala. Earlier InfoCaptor supported only JDBC protocol but now along with CDH integration, it has introduced ODBC protocol to take advantage of efficient drivers from Cloudera (Cloudera – Simba drivers) and provide more platform connectivity options. The integration has been … Read more

Venture Capital Investment Analytics on 20 years of investment data

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

Impact of sports in movies : Simple Data visualization Analysis – Basketball, Football, Hockey, Lacrosse, Miscellaneous sports

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

Data Visualization : Who made money for the Government on the bailout money?

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

Thanksgiving Sales – shopping survey

Data source : https://nrf.com/ PDF used for the visualizations Analysing the survey results How Likely Are You Going To Shop On Thanksgiving Which Of The Following Days Do You Plan To Shop Thanksgiving Weekend? Did you shop on Thanksgiving Day last year?   Do You Plan To Shop Specifically For “Small Business Saturday” On Saturday, … Read more