Tag: data

Data Discovery Technology Nets DataPad $1.7 Million

May 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Take a guy who literally wrote the book on Python programming tools and add some of venture capitals’ top investors and you have the recipe for DataPad, a new data discovery technology vendor that just raised $1.7 million. DataPad was founded in 2013 by Wes McKinney, who wrote “Python for Data Analysis” (believe me, it’s apparently a big deal among Python programmers) and creator of Pandas, and Chang She, who was a core developer of Pandas and a former data science instructor at Columbia University. Since its launch the two have managed to wrangle $1.7 million in very early stage funding from big name investors including Accel Partners, Google Ventures, a16z Seed Fund, SV Angel, Ludlow Ventures, and angel investors including Jeff Hammerbacher, Tom …

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Data Discovery Technology Nets DataPad $1.7 Million

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SMToolbox: Bringing Together SEO, Social and Content Marketing with gShift

May 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

It is clear there is a very strong and growing relationship between search and social. The future of SEO and social is also closely tied to content marketing, which we can see through terms such as social content, content SEO and social content marketing. This week in SMToolbox I take a look at gShift, a tool that embraces search, content marketing and social. Background The gShift SaaS platform collects and stores both social and search data, as the team recognized early on that to improve the performance of content you need to look at both elements. Currently they analyze data for over 10,000 brands and have over 350 agency clients across 22 countries. The aim of the gShift platform is to provide agencies and brand marketers with insights to help…

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SMToolbox: Bringing Together SEO, Social and Content Marketing with gShift

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How to improve InnoDB Performance by 55%

May 24, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

During April’s Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2014, I attended a talk on MySQL 5.7 performance an scalability given by Dimitri Kravtchuk, the Oracle MySQL benchmark specialist. He mentioned at some point that the InnoDB double write buffer was a real performance killer. For the ones that don’t know what the innodb double write buffer is, it is a disk buffer were pages are written before being written to the actual data file. Upon restart, pages in the double write buffer are rewritten to their data files if complete. This is to avoid data file corruption with half written pages. I knew it has an impact on performance, on ZFS since it is transactional I always disable it, but I never realized how important the performance …

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How to improve InnoDB performance by 55%

StyleStats: Get all sorts of CSS stats

May 19, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

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Add to favorites Use â†’ key to navigate StyleStats makes it easy to collect data about the CSS styles used on any website. Just enter a URL (you can also upload a file or input the CSS directly) and StyleStats will parse things like font sizes, universal selectors, unique colors, and much more. If you have found any issues with this resource please tell us about it â†’ Report Resource

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StyleStats: Get all sorts of CSS stats

The Psychology of Color in Marketing and Branding

May 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

The psychology of color as it relates to persuasion is one of the most interesting–and most controversial–aspects of marketing. The reason: Most of today’s conversations on colors and persuasion consist of hunches, anecdotal evidence and advertisers blowing smoke about “colors and the mind.” To alleviate this trend and give proper treatment to a truly fascinating element of human behavior, today we’re going to cover a selection of the most reliable research on color theory and persuasion. Misconceptions around the Psychology of Color Why does color psychology invoke so much conversation … but is backed with so little factual data? As research shows, it’s likely because elements such as personal preference, experiences, upbringing, cultural differences, context, etc., often muddy the effect individual colors have on us…

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The Psychology of Color in Marketing and Branding