"Marvel Avengers Assemble 3D cost $220m to make and is 143 minutes long, so whenever I glanced at my phone for one second, I missed $25,641 worth of entertainment."
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(Source: Guardian)
(Source: nevver)
The Semantic Web
[…] But the newest change is expected to go much further, coming as a result of Google’s acquisition in 2010 start-up Metaweb Technologies, which had an index of 12 million entities, such as movies, books, companies and celebrities. By comparison, online encyclopedia Wikipedia has 3.5 million English entries, though they include more detailed information.
Mr. Singhal said Google and the Metaweb team, which then numbered around 50 software engineers, have since expanded the size of the index to more than 200 million entities, partly by developing “extraction algorithms,” or mathematical formulas that can organize data scattered across the Web. It also approached organizations and government agencies to obtain access to databases, including the CIA World Factbook, which houses up-to-date encyclopedic information about countries worldwide.
(Source: The Wall Street Journal)
![A color-coded map of all shots taken in the NBA from 2006-2011. The areas on the floor that yielded the most points per shot appear red; those that yielded the fewest points per shot appear blue. […]
If you’ve read anything about scoring efficiency in basketball, the resulting image will not surprise you (though its elegance is striking).](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0vfsw3G5l1r13vloo1_500.jpg)
A color-coded map of all shots taken in the NBA from 2006-2011. The areas on the floor that yielded the most points per shot appear red; those that yielded the fewest points per shot appear blue. […]
If you’ve read anything about scoring efficiency in basketball, the resulting image will not surprise you (though its elegance is striking).
(Source: Slate)
"Today there are some 400 million devices connected to the Internet, mostly phones and computers. By 2020 some 50 billion devices, from cars to appliances, will be talking to one another."
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The hot tech gig of 2022: Data scientist - Fortune Tech (via diemkay
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(via diemkay)
"Meanwhile In USA:
Across all charter campaigns measured, 69 percent of the ad impressions were classified as being ‘in-view.’* The remaining 31 percent were delivered but never seen by a consumer, a likely result of a consumer scrolling past the ad before it loaded or a consumer never scrolling the ad into view. In-view percentages varied by site and ranged from 7 percent to 91 percent."
Across all charter campaigns measured, 69 percent of the ad impressions were classified as being ‘in-view.’* The remaining 31 percent were delivered but never seen by a consumer, a likely result of a consumer scrolling past the ad before it loaded or a consumer never scrolling the ad into view. In-view percentages varied by site and ranged from 7 percent to 91 percent."
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(Source: comscore.com, via alinzainescu)
Apple ~60,000 full-time employees
Revenue ~$40 bn/quarter, ~$160 bn/year
=> Average yearly revenue/employee >$2.5bn
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/01/25/apple-by-the-numbers/
This is actually the craziest chart about Apple following their insane earnings today.
There is exactly one company on that entire list that is not an oil and gas company. And they’re not that far from the top.
(via hyperglu)
