Non Profit Dashboards – Benefits of Analytics for Non-Profit

Analytics is a process that uses tools to collect those ever-increasing volumes of diverse types of data from multiple sources, sort them out at record speeds, analyze them, and use them to gain new insights. This concept has existed for decades, and it has been recreated with modern and more powerful tools to consolidate today’s … Read more

Benefits of Dashboards and Data visualization for Energy and Utility

  Time-and-again, analytics has been useful in people’s lives, whether it’s in higher education, marketing, the health sector, or in energy and utility services. The last one, however, is still in a major upheaval because of the introduction of the latest technologies to measure utility and provide more accurate energy readings. But if used properly, … 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

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

Dashboard Examples – Web Dashboards – Samples – Real time live metrics

Dashboard Examples, Real dashboards made with public datasets. Sample charts and graphics that you can use as templates or inspiration. CEO Compensation interactive visualization   Cloud/SAAS Dashboard statistics The above dashboard is my.infocaptor.com statistics. It shows number of users,dashboards,projects,and groups created. It shows rolling 30 day chart for dashboards created per day, logins per day. … Read more

Startup Scorecard Dashboard

For a startup or small business it is very important to track certain things apart from revenues and expenses. A startup could be selling a subscription service, a downloadable component, mobile app and so on. A startup also has raised some funds either through family/friends or incubator and VCs A startup is attacking on various … Read more