Moreover, quantity of schooling is easily measured, and long - term
data on years attained are readily available.
Moreover, years of schooling are easily measured, and
data on years attained, both over time and across individuals, are readily available.
The economy may be on one long roller - coaster ride, but you would never know it by looking at
the data on this year's Inc 500.
Not exact matches
The company is increasingly crunching
data to determine the optimal product mix at individual stores and the ideal locations to set up new outlets (it relied
on data to figure out the best place to open its first American Girl doll boutique last
year).
A study by Forbes Insights and Turn revealed that more than 70 percent of marketing executives expect to rely more and more
on data for decision - making within the next three
years.
Next
year, quantitative - based marketing will continue to surge as organizations that focus
on the
data find it easier to grow.
If a Desjardins customer's driving
data shows they are a less risky driver than most (driving less than 15,000 km per
year, for example, or driving primarily between 5 a.m. and 10 p.m.) they can qualify for a discount
on their insurance policy of up to 25 %.
New vehicle sales in Western Australia registered a slight increase in March compared with the same month last
year, while sales for the 12 months to March were up 5.3 per cent
on the prior
year, according to the latest
data from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries.
After several
years of research, in 2011 De Brouwer launched Scanadu, a start - up he believes can be instrumental in solving one of modern health care's major flaws: that humans rely too heavily
on the expertise of doctors and not nearly enough
on data.
Options Group's forecasts are based
on public and proprietary
data about revenue for the
year's first nine months, and bonus expectations from a survey of about 3,000 Wall Street workers.
To begin with, the OECD
data on value - added stops at 2011, several
years before Elon Musk sold his first electric car.
The
data results of a Social Security number verification can contain the state of and approximate
year of the number; status as an invalid, nonissued, or misused number; status
on whether the number has been used to file a death claim; address (es) of the user; employer (s) of the user; the
year of birth or age of the user.
And we're looking at that over the last several
years to tell you whether we think that price is going to go up,» Patrick Surry, Hopper's chief
data scientist, told CNBC's «
On The Money» in an interview.
St. Louis - based Anheuser - Busch, the largest U.S. brewer, said earlier this month it had cut its water use by 32 per cent in the last five
years by sponsoring preservation initiatives in water basins critical to its breweries, and by installing U.S. Department of Agriculture real - time weather and crop water - use
data meters
on suppliers» farms.
Gold fell 1.2 percent
on Friday after stronger than expected U.S. payrolls
data shored up expectations that a pick - up in inflation will spur further U.S. interest rate hikes this
year, boosting the U.S. currency, in which it is priced.
New vehicle sales are
on the rise, with new
data showing 4.8 per cent more cars were sold in the six months to June 30 than the same six month period last
year.
The FORTUNE 500 and FORTUNE 1000 lists typically publish in June and contain company financial
data for the fiscal
year ended
on or before January 31st.
On any given day, Snapchat reaches 41 percent of all 18 - to 34 -
year - olds in the U.S., according to 2015 Nielsen
data.
The FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For list typically publishes in March and contains company financial
data for the fiscal
year ended
on or before December 31st.
U.K. inflation jumped to 1.2 percent
year -
on -
year in November, just beating analyst expectations for a 1.1 percent increase, according to
data from the Office for National Statistics (
ONS).
Globally deals totalling $ 1.55 trillion have been struck so far this
year, while in Europe mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have totalled more than $ 621 billion, up 151 percent
on the same period in 2017, Thomson Reuters
data shows.
Casinos
on the Strip earned a profit of $ 814 million during the fiscal
year that ended June 30, according to
data from the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
Several
years ago, Big
Data was the new thing turning every venture capitalist
on his (or, only very occasionally, her) ear.
-- Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam, a
data center backup company founded in 2006 that now employs more than 1,500 employees around the world and brings in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, with its sights
on reaching $ 1 billion in revenue in the next five
years.
Sport Clips enjoys a 99.7 % franchise continuity rate, an honor based
on five
years of real
data.
Location: Vancouver How it Innovates:
Years ago, Vision Critical saw the market research industry becoming more
data driven and jumped
on the trend.
Car dealers in Western Australia will be hoping for a pickup this
year, after the release of
data showing a 7.9 per cent fall in new car sales in 2015 in WA, while the rest of the nation reported its best
year on record.
Senior administration officials told reporters
on Wednesday that the border apprehension
data for fiscal
year 2018 show a significant increase between February and March, as well as a «staggering increase» from the previous
year.
The FORTUNE Global 500 ® list typically publishes in the August and contains company financial
data for the fiscal
year ended
on or before March 31st.
The Sunday night championship, in which the Philadelphia Eagles toppled the New England Patriots 41 - 33, attracted an overnight rating of 47.4
on NBC, according to preliminary
data from the network, down about 3 percent from last
year.
Brian Wieser, a Pivotal Research analyst who reviewed Nielsen digital consumption
data, said Google properties, including YouTube and Waze, combined to account for 27.4 percent of all time spent
on digital media — up 3 percentage points from the previous
year.
Desrosiers»
data is supported anecdotally by searches
on the online used - car service AutoTrader.ca, where cross-border interest has surged: the company says that in November and December of 2015 it saw a more than 27 %
year - over-
year increase in U.S. traffic to its Canadian web site.
On the
data front, fourth - quarter current account figures showed the deficit fell, hitting its lowest level in more than a
year, as an increase in the primary income surplus offset a soybean - driven drop in exports.
Inflation
data in the 19 - member euro area dropped to 1.4 percent (
year -
on -
year) in May, from 1.9 percent in April, according to fresh figures Wednesday from the European statistics office.
In the U.S., the Dow Jones industrial average and broader S&P 500 both continued under pressure
on Friday following
data which showed the economy grew at its weakest pace in three
years.
«Without
data, you're
on the treadmill, battling the same fights you battled 10, 20, or 30
years ago.»
Last spring, Salesforce (crm), which sells customer management and sales software to big companies, committed to spending $ 400 million over four
years to host new software
on AWS rather than in its own
data centers.
Business activity in the euro area hit a fresh six -
year high in April
on strong demand and increasing business prospects, new
data showed
on Friday.
Based
on the
data, Nike, VF Corp (which owns Timberland, Reef, Vans, The North Face, and others), and Under Armour (still only an asterisk in sneakers, but growing faster each
year) have each risen, while Adidas has steadily fallen.
Third - quarter S&P 500 earnings are expected to grow by 4 percent
on a
year - over-
year basis, according to
data from S&P Capital IQ.
If Jobs» biggest accomplishment over the past 10
years could be pinpointed, my vote would go to his convincing AT&T to offer unlimited
data on the iPhone for less than $ 100.
Access to the complete Twitter stream costs about $ 30,000 a month, with fees based
on usage that can take the charges up to $ 1.5 million a
year, according to people who have used the
data.
For
years, Palihapitiya's vision has been pretty clear — operational experience coupled with a focus
on data.
Researchers at Columbia University and Rutgers University looked at two
years of
data from an annual, nationwide household survey and homed in
on two groups of people: current smokers and former smokers who quit during or before 2010, the
year e-cigarettes were introduced.
Last
year, median household income in the United States was $ 59,039 — lower than the $ 59,992 median in 2007 or the $ 60,399 median income in 2000 — based
on calculations by the Economic Policy Institute using Census
data.
«Dataminr feeds are like table stakes right now: Most hedge funds need to have it,» says Santo Politi, a founder of Spark Capital, a venture capital firm that was an early backer of Twitter and has a majority stake in a two -
year - old hedge fund, Tashtego, that trades
on signals from social media and other nontraditional
data.
Its $ 495 price tag includes a two -
year data plan with AT&T, which means it does not rely
on a smartphone for connectivity, as do most smartwatches, the companies said in a press release
on Monday.
As we rush through our work during the
year, it can be hard to focus
on much other than hard
data to tell us whether our staff is succeeding.
With U.K. life expectancy a long 80.75
years and the average retirement age of 65, a significant amount of people are working longer, however, with
data from the Office
on National Statistics (
ONS) released last week showed the number of older people aged 65 - 74 who were economically active had almost doubled in the last ten
years to 16 percent.
Millennials — Americans born in the 1980s and 1990s, also referred to as Generation Y — will spend $ 69 billion
on discretionary items this
year alone, according to
data from a recent Harris Interactive study.