DataHero, the startup that would do away with Excel, has just launched its free product to the public.
Mary Meeker's huge, well-researched slideshows are a treasure trove of data on the state of the Internet. Here's her latest, with highlights called out by VentureBeat.
You know the old story about statistics and liars, right? Statistics lie, and liars use statistics, or so the old saw says. There's a good reason for that: statistics are so damn easy to lie with. Even when you don't mean to.
Guest Post While I'm pleased with the outcome of yesterday's election in political terms, I'm equally thrilled about the victory for data science versus gut instinct, philosophy and fundamentals.
Sure, Facebook is the world's largest social network -- and the one currently ranked highest by teens. But don't count the little blue bird out yet: Twitter just might be winning the youth numbers game.
Props to Facebook HR! Finally, a detailed description of what a "data scientist" actually is. Join the team that analyzes raw data to probe the motivations of human behavior (for fun).
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about Kickstarter failures that were difficult to find because Kickstarter intentionally prevents failed campaigns from being indexed by the search engines…and how I managed to find (what turned out to be) about 59% of …
Crowdfunding startup Kickstarter has launched a new wide-ranging statistics page that shows how many projects have been funded, how much has been raised, and more, the company announced today on its blog.
While Kickstarter has written about various milestones before, …
Apple is expected to release the latest and greatest iPad today. Apple has a lot riding on this device, because while the iPad still wears the pants in the tablet family, Android devices are growing up fast.
The chart above, …
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Venture capital funding hasn’t hit the peaks it saw in early 2000, but it’s still going strong — particularly in Silicon Valley and for software companies.
Our analysis of venture funding from a variety of data sources revealed some interesting …
StumbleUpon has released new information about the level of activity that’s added to a link when shared through its content discovery service.
StumbleUpon’s service lets people discover and share new web content based on a broad spectrum of categories. Users …
Google on Thursday finally launched real-time traffic tracking tools for its already-good Google Analytics service. On top of that, the company introduced premium Google Analytics accounts that offer more ways measure data.
For quite some time, Google Analytics has offered …
LinkedIn, the social network centered around professional networking, has announced this morning that it has crossed 100 million registered users, making it the fourth American social network to do so after MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter.
In a blog post about …
Klout, a startup that helps people measure how influential they are across a variety of social media sites, announced today that it has scored $8.5 million in a round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins.
The investment is part of …
The number of Internet users in China has surpassed 450 million people, a senior official of the country announced in a press conference this morning. The country is now the world’s largest Internet market: The United States has only 230 …
San Francisco news ranking start-up Digg has become a symbol of new-age Internet buzz, ever since its hyped cover story on BusinessWeek several weeks ago.
Now TechCrunch reports Digg has been in recent acquisition discussions with a number of companies, …
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