Big data is propelling to the vanguard of research and progress in every field. When applied wisely, it can curtail the spread of disease, fight crime, optimize social media feeds, predict market trends, and offer personalized entertainment. The possibilities are as infinite as the data universe itself. It is believed that 90% of existing data in the world has been generated within the past few years. It is thrilling to imagine what the future of data-driven innovation holds. This infographic is intended to provide a fun, entertaining perspective on just how colossal the universe of data is. It compares the expanse of data storage with theoretical physical size. It is split into three scales – 1 MB equals 1 gram, 1 GB equals 1 pound, and 1 MB equals one calorie. These scales allow us to imagine just how explosive data has grown in such a short period of time.
Recent advancements in photovoltaic technology has led to a decrease in the cost of solar panels, complimented by an increase in their effectiveness and electricity yield. Now is a great time to consider solar panels for your property, with great government backed schemes that help you generate a profit from your green energy, even if you use the power yourself. This infographic helps explain all of the important information you need to choose whether solar panels are right for you. There a numerous benefits, but few disadvantages of solar power.
One of fastest growing crimes in the USA is identity theft. College students in particular are some of the most favored targets for ID thieves. The key reasons for this due to both awareness and bad habits, which we hope to be able to correct a little with this infographic. College students are rightly a lot more concerned with getting decent grades, parties and attractive members of the opposite sex than they are about ID theft.
Identity theft is a crime in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person’s personal data in a way that involves fraud, and is typically done for economic gain, such as applying for a new line of credit. Identity theft is a threat to anyone that has interaction with almost any financial infrastructure. With data breaches on the rise, more and more consumers are becoming a victim of identity theft and paying the price. Here’s what you should do if your credit card information is stolen.
Entrepreneurship is a dream that motivates millions of people across the world to go into the realms of unknown, sometimes risking everything they have, from their personal lives to corporate identities. Entrepreneurship can literally make or break it for you, but to the most extent, it depends on how you go about it. That's why Virtual Staffing have produced this wonderful infographic based on 101+ actionable business growth tips by world renowned entrepreneurs of modern times, so that you can actualise your entrepreneurial dreams with ease and confidence. Each one of them has a proven track record of success, which makes this highly relevant and effective, as they say, right from the horse's mouth!
Infographics offer a way for companies and individuals to convey information in a more interesting manner than plain, old, ordinary text. They can make the serious more impactful and the silly more engaging. Case in point: An obscure code that health professionals use to create consistency when referring to diagnosis, disease, injury, symptoms, complaints, and procedures. Used by health care professionals, this infographic is at once thoughtful and irrational—because it is real. People really do hurt themselves when struck by a sea lion. They are injured by brass instruments and have water skis catch on fire. Whatever the reason, it’s an infographic that outlines the bizarre and unusual in a dynamic form.
If the latest trends from online investor platform Angel List are anything to go by, it's still innovation that is driving the startup economy. From wearables that help keep industrial workers safe (Kinetic) to a lender that helps people go green with solar power (Mosaic), it's unique ideas that are the most successful. Let's take a closer look at a new infographic from Coupofy that reveals many interesting facts about the current startup landscape.
The Eurozone is struggling to recover with its currency valued at record lows. What caused this decline and can things really be turned around? One way Coupofy observes the value of the Euro is by measuring its purchasing power. Back in 2007, before the economic crisis had take hold, shoppers in Europe could buy a pack of chicken fillets for just €4.11. Today it's €6.78. A loaf of bread cost just €1, while today it is around €1.42. The average person then is definitely feeling the pinch. But what are the factors that lead to the Euro's devaluation?
Mobile commerce is defined as the sale of goods through mobile devices. With the rise of apps for online stores, and mobile specific payment processors, mCommerce is projected to grow 300% faster than traditional online shopping by 2016, according to data compiled by Coupofy for a new infographic. In raw growth terms that's around 42% growth in mobile shopping (2013 to 2016) compared to around 13% for standard eCommerce. Those who shop on their phones are also expected to spend three times the amount between 2014 and 2018, from $200 billion to $600 billion!
From unknown corners of the internet, to the day trading marketplaces, to the local coffee shops - Bitcoin is slowly but surely becoming an everyday currency. Coupofy explores a new infographic to see what else the data tells us about Bitcoin usage. As of 2014, more than 100,000 popular online stores (and many offline stores) have adopted Bitcoin as a payment method, alongside Paypal, credit cards, gift cards, and other common methods. These range from computer hardware merchant Newegg and the Expedia travel agent service, to department store chains like Urban Outfitters and Neiman Marcus, to everything else in between. Consumers have demanded it and retailers have answered to that demand.
In the world of literature, writers do not just create stories and characters. Over the years, authors have also coined different words that even up until now are still widely used. Apart from the famous works written by these authors, they are also able to leave their own legacy in terms of the words that they created. The words found in the dictionary have originated from the old language, other languages and even from authors who have created them. These words were first used by the author in his or her literary work which became really famous. As authors write more stories and publish books in a wide array of genres, there is a new breed of words that will then be passed to the next generation. For years, these words as invented by authors have enriched the language and will continue to do so in the upcoming years. When you trace back the origin of certain words, you will discover that these words actually came from the world's best authors. So, what are some of these words that were invented by writers. There are a lot of them but here are just some of the most popular and commonly used words today collected in infographic by the team of Aussiessay writing service
The digital era has made freelancing more lucrative than ever before. You can find some of the world’s top designers working from a remote village in Portugal or a content writer creating a blog article from Phuket. Freelancing is serious business and to be successful you need more than just your core talent. You need to treat it just like any other full time career opportunity.
Show business is obsessed with awards. Although the winner is not necessarily the best, and often the person who's team or company puts the most money behind them, winning a major award can make or break someone's career. The four awards thought of as the end all be all in their respective industries are the Emmy for TV, The Grammy for music, The Oscar for Film and The Tony award for Broadway theatre. The term used for an individual who has won all four is The EGOT.
Over the years there have been only 12 people who can lay claim to the distinction. Some are known more as actors like Rita Moreno, others are though of as producers or musicians. While only 12 can say they are EGOT winners, there are 70 people who have 3 out of the 4 awards, 43 of them are still alive. The infographic below shows not just the winners but also some interesting patterns about those who are potentially next up.
Over the years there have been only 12 people who can lay claim to the distinction. Some are known more as actors like Rita Moreno, others are though of as producers or musicians. While only 12 can say they are EGOT winners, there are 70 people who have 3 out of the 4 awards, 43 of them are still alive. The infographic below shows not just the winners but also some interesting patterns about those who are potentially next up.
The success of a retail business depends heavily on the performance of front line staff. Therefore it’s crucial that employees look the part and feel like a valued member of the team in order to deliver exceptional customer service.
Dress Your Staff For Success: Six Things Every Retailer Should Know’ is an insightful infographic from Portlantis that explores key facts and figures behind the power of branded retail employee workwear for boosting the profitability of a retail business. It highlights how simple, smart, branded uniform promotes a consistent and professional company image, helping to build brand integrity and increase customer loyalty. It also gives retail employees a responsibility to act as an ambassador for the brand. This is crucial for upping their confidence and ensuring the highest levels of professionalism when interacting with customers and driving sales in store.
Dress Your Staff For Success: Six Things Every Retailer Should Know’ is an insightful infographic from Portlantis that explores key facts and figures behind the power of branded retail employee workwear for boosting the profitability of a retail business. It highlights how simple, smart, branded uniform promotes a consistent and professional company image, helping to build brand integrity and increase customer loyalty. It also gives retail employees a responsibility to act as an ambassador for the brand. This is crucial for upping their confidence and ensuring the highest levels of professionalism when interacting with customers and driving sales in store.
Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, but the blockchain protocol behind it can be used for a variety of non-currency purposes. People are using the blockchain to develop everything from ride-sharing services to voting applications to cloud storage. Let’s take a closer look at how the blockchain protocol works and how it’s being used.
To celebrate the release of Spectre, the 24th James Bond film in the much celebrated franchise, British car dealerships Motorparks and Grange have taken the opportunity to take a look at the best of 007’s iconic cars in their latest infographic. The visual covers everything from the awe-inspiring pristine cars that Bond has driven over the years, such as the Aston Martin DBS, to more modest vehicles that the fictional British Secret Service agent somehow found himself behind the wheel of.
After Raf Simons' announcement that he would be stepping down from his role as Creative Director at Dior the fashion world was in a state of shock and immediately the rumours about who would take over his role started spreading like wildfire. Would it be a relatively unknown designer like Balenciaga just picked or would it be a fashion heavy weight such as Marc Jacobs or Celine's Phoebe Philo? We let our imaginations run wild and imagined what it would be like if certain designers went to the iconic French house - creating some pretty great fashion mashups!
Christmas is around the corner, is your customer experience ready for it?! Whether you can’t wait for Christmas or can’t wait for Christmas to be over, you need to be prepared for the demands that your business will face. If you’re an eCommerce store then you are certain to see a dramatic increase in website traffic and sales in the coming months. UK eCommerce sales in 2014 grew 74% from 2013. Even on Christmas day, Britons spend millions online.
Candlestick Patterns are a form of technical analysis and charting used in a variety of markets including Stock and Forex. First appearing sometime after 1850, the now famous Candlestick Pattern technique grew popularity in the 90’s when introduced by Steve Nison who learnt about them from a Japanese broker.
They present price action over a set period of time and provide information such as possible reversal in the markets by showing the price movement.
They present price action over a set period of time and provide information such as possible reversal in the markets by showing the price movement.
There have been many changes to men’s style in the last few decades. From the beginnings of fashion rebellion in the 50s to the mixture of styles seen in current days, we've seen experimental looks in the 60s and 70s bringing colour and expression. New politics and music spawned fashion tribes in power suits in the 80s, countered by New Romantics in eyeliner and floppy hair. Later we saw the rise of lad culture, and the bright, baggy clothes favoured by the ravers became commonplace. Which decade do you think was the best for men's fashion? Are you a traditionalist, or do you, like the modern-day man, prefer to mix up influences from different times to create a progressive, blended look incorporating influences from different times? One thing is clear - individuality has reigned supreme through the ages, and men now take inspiration from wherever they want to create their own personal and distinct look.
Did you know you that you don’t any traffic to your online store to make your first eCommerce sales? At WooGuru we get constantly asked by customers how to get more sales for their new online store. That’s normal - reports show that getting your first customers is number one problem small businesses in USA face.
An educational infographic on Careers with Great Work-Life Balance to showcase what numerous information driven articles refer to as the best occupations for a more satisfied work-life balance. The infographic ranks jobs by factors, like total hours worked a week, fun rating, average pay, growth potential, flexibility and stress level. Also, some winners are selected along the following categories as well:
Are you gearing up for Halloween? There is a lot that needs to be done. Aside from decorating your home and your garden in the scariest way possible, you also need to think about your costume. Take your bike out for a spin this holiday with a jaw-dropping costume made especially for the cyclist in you! That’s right, here are 20 of the scariest, funniest, and most out of this world (literally!) costumes for your bicycle and you this Halloween.
Children are now spending seven hours every day consuming entertainment media on televisions, computers, game consoles and phones, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. While parents shouldn't freak out about wired playdates, they do need to have "screen sense" as well as common sense, thinking through their parenting strategies when screens are everywhere.
Highlighting research from the 2015 Role & Influence of the Technology Decision-Maker study, this infographic moves step-by-step through the tech purchase process to show the top sources used by today’s tech decision-makers. From sites and peers to videos and vendors, tech decision-makers are self educating to learn what’s next in advancing their organization.
An IoT can automate a lot of tasks and processes. It can make life easier, safer, and much more convenient. There’s currently a whole lot of capital moving around the IoT tech sector, over 800 companies are working on IoT devices and platforms, and new IoT components come on the market on a regular basis. The infographic included here gives you a good visual summary of what’s happening. We made it to show you what types of technology IoT companies are focusing on, how the money is flowing, where the innovation is taking place, and more.
According to PayScale’s 2015 Compensation Best Practices Report, which includes a survey of over 5,000 businesses, 22% of employers struggle to recruit talent due to an inability to offer competitive wages. Couple that with the fact that, according to the Workforce 2020 report from Oxford Economics and SAP, higher compensation was voted the number one way to increase employee loyalty and engagement, and it’s easy to see why compensation remains such a hot topic.
You may consider jazz to be a world apart from the rock, pop or hip-hop you love (or hate). However, you might be surprised to learn about jazz's influences on many genres through its rich history, from the newest performing artists of today, to legendary musicians that shaped the sounds we love so much.
Did you know that women are being hired by the top 8 tech firms in the world at a rate 238% faster than men? Perhaps it's only a matter of time before society embraces a female Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs. In a new infographic, Coupofy.com looked at the growing female role in the tech industry and some of the trailblazers that are opening those doors.
Of course one sure fire way for a woman to secure a role in the tech industry is to found a tech startup herself. 20% of all such businesses are now founded by women. In the US this figure drops slightly to 18%, but cities like Chicago and Boston are the most female friendly in the world.
Of course one sure fire way for a woman to secure a role in the tech industry is to found a tech startup herself. 20% of all such businesses are now founded by women. In the US this figure drops slightly to 18%, but cities like Chicago and Boston are the most female friendly in the world.
You may not be dressed in Balmain, Lacroix or Vivienne Westwood for your flight, but inspect your flight’s cabin crew a bit more and you might recognise great designer creations right in front of you. Airlines have been collaborating with designers for generations. It all began with the glamorous heyday of flying in the 60’s. Emilio Pucci designed Braniff International’s futuristic hostess uniforms, while Pierre Balmain created the iconic Singapore Airlines sarong kebaya in the 70’s.
The best times to post on social media depend on your social platform of choice, your audience and their online habits, and the type of blog you are promoting, among other factors. Updating your social media profiles too frequently or infrequently can alienate your target audience, leaving you ignored or unseen by your followers. This is why understanding when your audience is active on social media can help you increase shares, traffic and links.
Early science fiction from India, Japan, Greece, and elsewhere was deeply entwined with myth and religion. It was a way of exploring the human relationship to the cosmos. That tradition has carried through into moder science fiction, too. The stories we read, watch on television, or see in a movie theater are explorations of the human condition. When humanity takes to the stars, what will we take with us? What will be new? Our greatest fears are explored in films like Alien and Event Horizon, while our greatest hopes are embodied in Star Trek, Star Wars, Guardians of the Galaxy and others. These stories are fun, yes, but they're deep explorations of the self too. This infographic is a compendium of the vehicles that we imagine will take us to the stars. Some of them are their own characters and settings for the creative work they star in. All of them have something to say about the place we imagine humanity will carve for itself in the galaxy.
To celebrate the hotly anticipated release of the new James Bond movie Spectre, Stylight imagined a world where the ultimate heartbreaker himself has Tinder! Focusing on Mr. Daniel Craig and all of his many Bond girls we recreate famous quotes from the movies as Tinder chat up lines. Featuring everyone from M and Miss Moneypenny to the latest Bond girl Dr. Madeline Swann watch as he tries his best one liners and see if he swipes left or right!
Tire of not being invited to all the zombie parties because you look rotted and blood-soaked? These are real world zombie problems that we can help with. We have tips on bloodshot eyes, sagging and rotted skin, dark under-eye circles and blood-stained teeth. If hair loss is your problem we can help you with that too. All you need are coconuts and hands that won't fall off when you run your head.
When you choose your next pair of glasses, how are you going to make your decision? Most people choose glasses that look good on their faces, but that’s only one piece of the puzzle. It’s also important to choose glasses based on your personality. If you’re a serious business person, you need serious professional glasses. Conversely, if you have a little bit of a punk rock side, your glasses should reflect that. Learn more about choosing the right glasses for your face from this infographic!
Flowers. For generations and generations they have been used for everything from decoration to an apology to a gift; the uses are truly numerous. One thing many people aren't aware of is its historical and current use in fashion as a fashion accessory. Many people might think that this was something that was only popular during the "hippy" movement of the 60s and 70s but the true history is much more robust and widespread.
Will going to the university do you any good? Will you be able to get the job of your dream without doing so? The debates on the importance of higher education is a hot topic nowadays. With all those successful people without degrees looking at you from the popular tabloids, it's easy to believe that there's no point in getting a degree. If you're smart enough, you can get any job you want with or without it. But things are a bit more complicated than that.
So, which horror movie villain’s costume is scariest? Can there ever be an objective answer to this? Some find clowns like Pennywise from Stephen King’s It to be frightening. Others get the creeps from slow-shuffling zombies, closing in on their next meal of human flesh and organs. Many even find the everyday clothes of Norman Bates or Hannibal Lecter scary, just because they’re able to hide in plain sight.
How many times have you logged on to Facebook to see friends posting pictures of their child’s learner’s permit or first paycheck? Have you seen all the people who post obscured pictures of their debit cards on Twitter for everyone to see? These are obvious things that shouldn’t ever happen because of security concerns, but there are lots of things people do every day that compromise their security on social media. Learn more about protecting your personal information from this infographic!
Do you have somebody you consider to be your personal opponent? Somebody you want to beat in any occasion, no matter what the price is. You always compare yourself to them and you gloat each time when you realize that you manage to beat them. A little bit of friendly competition has never harmed anybody, right? Even cities experience a friendly competition from time to time. In South Africa, Cape Town and Johannesburg are having the competition about their popularity. Each one of them thinks that they should be the city that holds the title of most popular city in South Africa. Surely, there are no easy answers to this question. Everybody can give you their reasons why one of them is better than the other, and those reasons will be completely different for each person. Check out this great infographic to discover differences between them and decide which one better suits you. Then visit them both to see if you were right.
Alongside swimming with dolphins and skydiving, running a marathon is increasingly becoming a life goal for many, with one in every thousand people now expected to undertake the challenge in their lifetimes. With 42.195 km (26.2 miles) of open road to traverse, marathons can be a great way of seeing a city as never before and will take runners past some of the locale’s most spectacular sights.
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