2015 | Data Economics

Good Relations. The Web Vocabulary for E-Commerce

2015-07-15 / 0 comments

A paradigm shift for e-commerce. Since 2008. Only 5% of all potential visitors of your site will actually see your offers in their original beauty. 95% will never get beyond a reduced preview of your great products and services as provided by a Web search engine. GoodRelations is the most powerful vocabulary for publishing all…

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Tech Leaps: telegraph / telephone / television / computer

2015-07-15 / 0 comments

Take a look at some leaps in information technology between 1830 and 2000 visualized by Google Ngrams …

Book: The Economics of Digitization

2015-07-15 / 0 comments

The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics series Edited by Shane Greenstein, Professor and Kellogg Chair of Information Technology, Northwestern University, US, Avi Goldfarb, Professor of Marketing, University of Toronto, Canada and Catherine Tucker, Mark Hyman Jr. Career Development Professor and Associate Professor of Marketing, MIT Sloan School of Management, US This authoritative collection,…

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Google Ngram Viewer

2015-07-15 / 0 comments

Google Ngrams: Google Books Service to analyze arbitrary combinations of words against a subset of the Google Books corpus created for this application. Read a nice (german) description of how to use this service for scientific purposes @ Google Ngram Viewer Example: postal service, telecommunication, internet, email, www

Quandl

2015-07-14 / 0 comments

Quandl is a Data Platform. We host data from hundreds of publishers on a single easy-to-use website. We make it easy for data users to get the data they need in the format they want. Founded in 2012, Quandl is a Canadian technology company backed by some of the world’s leading venture capital firms.

Oxford Economics

2015-07-14 / 0 comments

Oxford Economics was founded in 1981 as a commercial venture with Oxford University’s business college to provide economic forecasting and modelling to UK companies and financial institutions expanding abroad. http://www.oxfordeconomics.com/about-us

Nature Ontologies project page

2015-07-14 / 0 comments

This site describes the RDF ontologies used by Macmillan Science and Education for content publishing. We are sharing these in order to contribute to the wider linked data community and to provide a public reference for our data models.

World Bank: Open Data for Economic Growth

2015-07-14 / 0 comments

This paper examines the evidence for the economic potential of Open Data and concludes that, despite a variation in published estimates and some methodological difficulties, the potential is very large indeed. It reviews the latest data about companies using Open Data, and highlights four companies which did not exist ten years ago, which are driven…

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Big Data Propaganda

2015-07-14 / 0 comments

A typical piece opf propaganda on Big Data and added value derived from business analytics provided by Cognizant Technology Solutions in conjunction with Oxford Economics. It’s in the data, stupid! Read yourself: The Value of Signal (and the Cost of Noise) – The New Economics of Meaning-Making

The Economics of Shared Data Plans

2015-07-12 / 0 comments

In this paper, we introduce a simple analytical framework to model the tradeoffs between choosing a shared data plan and individual data plans for different devices from a consumer perspective. In particular, we show that even in this simplified setting, this choice is non-trivial for a consumer, with a complex dependency on users’ psychology of…

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