Data Visualisation Examples. Examining How Crunchbase Data Compares To Other Industry Sources. Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Billy Gallagher.
Now that the CrunchBase team has spent some quality time improving our data sets, we thought it’d be interesting to see how our free database of companies stacks up against other industry sources on a key measure of the startup ecosystem: quarterly venture funding totals. Here’s a quick breakdown. Crunchbase data shows that 2,674 venture deals were completed in the first half 0f 2013, with a total of $17,629,528,289 in venture capital invested.
These figures are higher than for similar databases including CB Insights, Dow Jones VentureSource, PitchBook and PWC MoneyTree. Why? Starting now, we’ll be regularly comparing CrunchBase data to other industry sources over on the CrunchBase blog. You can check out a spreadsheet comparing data across these sources for the first half of 2013 on CrunchBase. TechCrunch - The latest technology news and information on startups. Big Data Research and Analysis. Big Data Research and Analysis from The Wikibon Project The best of Wikibon's Big Data research and analysis.
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It’s not exactly rocket science, either. Apple just has to grow the iPhone business. That’s it! iWatches are fun to talk about. An Apple TV might be cool. Dividend increases and share buybacks might make some people happy, but they’re ultimately useless for Apple. If Apple wants to make everyone happy, it’s all about the iPhone. Apple is the iPhone company. Business Insider Intelligence The iPhone generated $26 billion in sales last quarter, or 59% of Apple’s total revenue. The iPad, by contrast, was $7.6 billion, or 17% of Apple’s revenue. Because of the disparity in importance for Apple between the iPhone and the iPad, investors are mostly ignoring what was a startlingly bad quarter for the iPad. Business Insider iPad unit sales were down 16% on a year-over-year basis. 10 Hot Hadoop Startups to Watch. CIO — It's no secret that data volumes are growing exponentially.
What's a bit more mysterious is figuring out how to unlock the value of all of that data. A big part of the problem is that traditional databases weren't designed for big data-scale volumes, nor were they designed to incorporate different types of data (structured and unstructured) from different apps. Lately, Apache Hadoop, an open-source framework that enables the processing of large data sets in a distributed environment, has become almost synonymous with big data. With Hadoop, end users can run applications on systems composed of thousands of nodes that pull in thousands of terabytes of data. According to Gartner estimates, the current Hadoop ecosystem market is worth roughly $77 million. . [ How the 9 Leading Commercial Hadoop Distributions Stack Up ] [ 18 Essential Hadoop Tools for Crunching Big Data ] Here are 10 startups hoping to grab a piece of that nearly $1 billion pie. 1. Headquarters: San Mateo, Calif. Business Strategy and the Environment - Early View.
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