Global respondents believe being creative is valuable to society (70%) and the economy (64%). Being creative helps make people better workers (70%), leaders (70%), parents (69%) and students (69%). Yet only forty-one percent describe themselves as creative and thirty-one percent report they are living up to their creative potential.
We surveyed over 5,000 people across the U.S., the UK, Germany, France and Japan to explore the state of creativity since our 2012 report. 70% of global respondents believe creativity is valuable to the economy and society. Dive in to find out more. For a quick look, check out our infographic featuring results from U.S. respondents: http://bit.ly/2fbfjC8
Cone Generation Z & CSR Study - The Power of the 40 percent in 2020Markus Schneider
Cone Communications informative study about how important CSR is for every business today - because 9 out of 10 consumers would switch to companies that are actively solving global issues and 7 out of 10 want to support them doing so. Download: http://www.conecomm.com/research-blog/2017-genz-csr-study
Mercury Mambo Hispanic Shopper & Retailer Study 2011Mercury Mambo
The follow-up study to the popular 2009 Hispanic Shopper & Retailer study by Mercury Mambo. Read first hand what Hispanic consumers and retailers look for in brand promotions and experiences.
Global respondents believe being creative is valuable to society (70%) and the economy (64%). Being creative helps make people better workers (70%), leaders (70%), parents (69%) and students (69%). Yet only forty-one percent describe themselves as creative and thirty-one percent report they are living up to their creative potential.
We surveyed over 5,000 people across the U.S., the UK, Germany, France and Japan to explore the state of creativity since our 2012 report. 70% of global respondents believe creativity is valuable to the economy and society. Dive in to find out more. For a quick look, check out our infographic featuring results from U.S. respondents: http://bit.ly/2fbfjC8
Cone Generation Z & CSR Study - The Power of the 40 percent in 2020Markus Schneider
Cone Communications informative study about how important CSR is for every business today - because 9 out of 10 consumers would switch to companies that are actively solving global issues and 7 out of 10 want to support them doing so. Download: http://www.conecomm.com/research-blog/2017-genz-csr-study
Mercury Mambo Hispanic Shopper & Retailer Study 2011Mercury Mambo
The follow-up study to the popular 2009 Hispanic Shopper & Retailer study by Mercury Mambo. Read first hand what Hispanic consumers and retailers look for in brand promotions and experiences.
We all know that the SaaS landscape is ever-changing. That’s precisely why it’s crucial for SaaS businesses to constantly evolve and change their strategies and tactics. But without objective data on what works and what doesn’t, shifting strategies would be mere conjecture.
To help these companies we’re releasing, for the second year in a row, a massive data set that takes a look at what does and doesn’t work when it comes to efficiently growing a SaaS company. This year, we placed special emphasis on the explosion of product led growth – a go-to-market strategy that underpins some of today’s most successful businesses including Atlassian, Dropbox and Expensify. Companies with a product led growth (PLG) strategy exhibit unique financial and operating characteristics like rapid scalability, economic efficiency and outsized investment in technology that enable them to grow at more efficient rates.
Our survey uncovered trends around how fast startups are growing (hint: it’s tough to break in, but the best performers are growing faster than ever), the emergence of SaaS companies all around the world, and early indications of progress on hiring diverse candidates.
Global Survey Across 32 Countries Shows Worker Appetite for Social Tools is I...Microsoft
Global survey across 32 countries shows worker appetite for social tools is increasing, even if it means spending their own money and defying organizational policy to use the technology.
Nearly half of employees report that social tools at work help increase their productivity, but more than 30 percent of companies underestimate the value of these tools and often restrict their use, according to new Microsoft research released today.
The survey, conducted for Microsoft Corp. by research firm Ipsos among 9,908 information workers in 32 countries, also found that 39 percent of employees feel there isn’t enough collaboration in their workplaces, and 40 percent believe social tools help foster better teamwork. More surprisingly, 31 percent said they are willing to spend their own money to buy social tools.
“Employees are already bringing their own devices into their workplaces, but now they are increasingly bringing their own services as well,” said Charlene Li, founder and analyst at Altimeter Group, a firm that studies social media and other technology trends. “Employees expect to work differently, with tools that feel more modern and connected, but are also reflective of how they interact in their personal lives. Enterprise social represents a new way to work, and organizations embracing these tools are improving collaboration, speeding customer responses and creating competitive advantages.”
The research also found distinct differences between countries, sectors and genders as they relate to the levels of productivity, collaboration and communication tools used in today’s workplace.
Representation of a comprehensive analysis of survey responses from a controlled socio-demographic focus group to test messaging and creative for a national campaign.
Technology is changing so fast that old marketing techniques are being left behind. We need new strategies to market effectively--and they will be shaped by these five forces.
When drafting a media plan, getting the media mix right is critical. Morgan & Co presents some ideas to consider and follow with creating a media planning and buying mix for a marketing campaign.
Credit Card Marketing Survey - Attitudes of Young Affluent ConsumersMedia Logic
Young affluents -- ages 25-50 with $100K household income -- are a priority for financial services marketers, and these takeaways from recent research by Media Logic can be used to guide credit card marketing communications targeting this segment.
For example:
- Email is the preferred media channel for young affluents to learn about new products.
- Reviews, trustworthiness and data security are essential considerations.
- Consumers most want to know about rewards and fees.
- When a product catches their interest, young affluents are nearly equally likely to respond via QR code or hyperlink.
These findings are included in our Credit Card Marketing Survey: Attitudes of Young Affluent Consumers (2023). Media Logic conducted the research through Consumer In Sight (CIS), our investigative series that aims to gain new insights into consumer preferences and behaviors in the healthcare and financial services industries.
We all know that the SaaS landscape is ever-changing. That’s precisely why it’s crucial for SaaS businesses to constantly evolve and change their strategies and tactics. But without objective data on what works and what doesn’t, shifting strategies would be mere conjecture.
To help these companies we’re releasing, for the second year in a row, a massive data set that takes a look at what does and doesn’t work when it comes to efficiently growing a SaaS company. This year, we placed special emphasis on the explosion of product led growth – a go-to-market strategy that underpins some of today’s most successful businesses including Atlassian, Dropbox and Expensify. Companies with a product led growth (PLG) strategy exhibit unique financial and operating characteristics like rapid scalability, economic efficiency and outsized investment in technology that enable them to grow at more efficient rates.
Our survey uncovered trends around how fast startups are growing (hint: it’s tough to break in, but the best performers are growing faster than ever), the emergence of SaaS companies all around the world, and early indications of progress on hiring diverse candidates.
Global Survey Across 32 Countries Shows Worker Appetite for Social Tools is I...Microsoft
Global survey across 32 countries shows worker appetite for social tools is increasing, even if it means spending their own money and defying organizational policy to use the technology.
Nearly half of employees report that social tools at work help increase their productivity, but more than 30 percent of companies underestimate the value of these tools and often restrict their use, according to new Microsoft research released today.
The survey, conducted for Microsoft Corp. by research firm Ipsos among 9,908 information workers in 32 countries, also found that 39 percent of employees feel there isn’t enough collaboration in their workplaces, and 40 percent believe social tools help foster better teamwork. More surprisingly, 31 percent said they are willing to spend their own money to buy social tools.
“Employees are already bringing their own devices into their workplaces, but now they are increasingly bringing their own services as well,” said Charlene Li, founder and analyst at Altimeter Group, a firm that studies social media and other technology trends. “Employees expect to work differently, with tools that feel more modern and connected, but are also reflective of how they interact in their personal lives. Enterprise social represents a new way to work, and organizations embracing these tools are improving collaboration, speeding customer responses and creating competitive advantages.”
The research also found distinct differences between countries, sectors and genders as they relate to the levels of productivity, collaboration and communication tools used in today’s workplace.
Representation of a comprehensive analysis of survey responses from a controlled socio-demographic focus group to test messaging and creative for a national campaign.
Technology is changing so fast that old marketing techniques are being left behind. We need new strategies to market effectively--and they will be shaped by these five forces.
When drafting a media plan, getting the media mix right is critical. Morgan & Co presents some ideas to consider and follow with creating a media planning and buying mix for a marketing campaign.
Credit Card Marketing Survey - Attitudes of Young Affluent ConsumersMedia Logic
Young affluents -- ages 25-50 with $100K household income -- are a priority for financial services marketers, and these takeaways from recent research by Media Logic can be used to guide credit card marketing communications targeting this segment.
For example:
- Email is the preferred media channel for young affluents to learn about new products.
- Reviews, trustworthiness and data security are essential considerations.
- Consumers most want to know about rewards and fees.
- When a product catches their interest, young affluents are nearly equally likely to respond via QR code or hyperlink.
These findings are included in our Credit Card Marketing Survey: Attitudes of Young Affluent Consumers (2023). Media Logic conducted the research through Consumer In Sight (CIS), our investigative series that aims to gain new insights into consumer preferences and behaviors in the healthcare and financial services industries.
Adjusting primitives for graph : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
Graph algorithms, like PageRank Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) is an adjacency-list based graph representation that is
Multiply with different modes (map)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector multiply.
2. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector multiply.
Sum with different storage types (reduce)
1. Performance of vector element sum using float vs bfloat16 as the storage type.
Sum with different modes (reduce)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector element sum.
2. Performance of memcpy vs in-place based CUDA based vector element sum.
3. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (memcpy).
4. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Sum with in-place strategies of CUDA mode (reduce)
1. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Global Situational Awareness of A.I. and where its headedvikram sood
You can see the future first in San Francisco.
Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trillion-dollar clusters. Every six months another zero is added to the boardroom plans. Behind the scenes, there’s a fierce scramble to secure every power contract still available for the rest of the decade, every voltage transformer that can possibly be procured. American big business is gearing up to pour trillions of dollars into a long-unseen mobilization of American industrial might. By the end of the decade, American electricity production will have grown tens of percent; from the shale fields of Pennsylvania to the solar farms of Nevada, hundreds of millions of GPUs will hum.
The AGI race has begun. We are building machines that can think and reason. By 2025/26, these machines will outpace college graduates. By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have superintelligence, in the true sense of the word. Along the way, national security forces not seen in half a century will be un-leashed, and before long, The Project will be on. If we’re lucky, we’ll be in an all-out race with the CCP; if we’re unlucky, an all-out war.
Everyone is now talking about AI, but few have the faintest glimmer of what is about to hit them. Nvidia analysts still think 2024 might be close to the peak. Mainstream pundits are stuck on the wilful blindness of “it’s just predicting the next word”. They see only hype and business-as-usual; at most they entertain another internet-scale technological change.
Before long, the world will wake up. But right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness. Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them. A few years ago, these people were derided as crazy—but they trusted the trendlines, which allowed them to correctly predict the AI advances of the past few years. Whether these people are also right about the next few years remains to be seen. But these are very smart people—the smartest people I have ever met—and they are the ones building this technology. Perhaps they will be an odd footnote in history, or perhaps they will go down in history like Szilard and Oppenheimer and Teller. If they are seeing the future even close to correctly, we are in for a wild ride.
Let me tell you what we see.
Analysis insight about a Flyball dog competition team's performanceroli9797
Insight of my analysis about a Flyball dog competition team's last year performance. Find more: https://github.com/rolandnagy-ds/flyball_race_analysis/tree/main
06-04-2024 - NYC Tech Week - Discussion on Vector Databases, Unstructured Data and AI
Discussion on Vector Databases, Unstructured Data and AI
https://www.meetup.com/unstructured-data-meetup-new-york/
This meetup is for people working in unstructured data. Speakers will come present about related topics such as vector databases, LLMs, and managing data at scale. The intended audience of this group includes roles like machine learning engineers, data scientists, data engineers, software engineers, and PMs.This meetup was formerly Milvus Meetup, and is sponsored by Zilliz maintainers of Milvus.
Adjusting OpenMP PageRank : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
For massive graphs that fit in RAM, but not in GPU memory, it is possible to take
advantage of a shared memory system with multiple CPUs, each with multiple cores, to
accelerate pagerank computation. If the NUMA architecture of the system is properly taken
into account with good vertex partitioning, the speedup can be significant. To take steps in
this direction, experiments are conducted to implement pagerank in OpenMP using two
different approaches, uniform and hybrid. The uniform approach runs all primitives required
for pagerank in OpenMP mode (with multiple threads). On the other hand, the hybrid
approach runs certain primitives in sequential mode (i.e., sumAt, multiply).
STATATHON: Unleashing the Power of Statistics in a 48-Hour Knowledge Extravag...sameer shah
"Join us for STATATHON, a dynamic 2-day event dedicated to exploring statistical knowledge and its real-world applications. From theory to practice, participants engage in intensive learning sessions, workshops, and challenges, fostering a deeper understanding of statistical methodologies and their significance in various fields."
Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation - Final Version - 5.23...John Andrews
SlideShare Description for "Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation"
Title: Chatty Kathy: Enhancing Physical Activity Among Older Adults
Description:
Discover how Chatty Kathy, an innovative project developed at the UNC Bootcamp, aims to tackle the challenge of low physical activity among older adults. Our AI-driven solution uses peer interaction to boost and sustain exercise levels, significantly improving health outcomes. This presentation covers our problem statement, the rationale behind Chatty Kathy, synthetic data and persona creation, model performance metrics, a visual demonstration of the project, and potential future developments. Join us for an insightful Q&A session to explore the potential of this groundbreaking project.
Project Team: Jay Requarth, Jana Avery, John Andrews, Dr. Dick Davis II, Nee Buntoum, Nam Yeongjin & Mat Nicholas
ViewShift: Hassle-free Dynamic Policy Enforcement for Every Data LakeWalaa Eldin Moustafa
Dynamic policy enforcement is becoming an increasingly important topic in today’s world where data privacy and compliance is a top priority for companies, individuals, and regulators alike. In these slides, we discuss how LinkedIn implements a powerful dynamic policy enforcement engine, called ViewShift, and integrates it within its data lake. We show the query engine architecture and how catalog implementations can automatically route table resolutions to compliance-enforcing SQL views. Such views have a set of very interesting properties: (1) They are auto-generated from declarative data annotations. (2) They respect user-level consent and preferences (3) They are context-aware, encoding a different set of transformations for different use cases (4) They are portable; while the SQL logic is only implemented in one SQL dialect, it is accessible in all engines.
#SQL #Views #Privacy #Compliance #DataLake
18. Retail was the one industry where survey respondents did not broadly state that word-of-mouth was the
top channel of influence. In retail, promotions were the most influential in making purchase decisions (50%,
n=197). This was followed by word-of-mouth (48%, n=189), online reviews (46, n=184), websites for retail
stores (25%, n=98), and retail blogs (20%, n=82). It was interesting to see that television commercials were
actually the sixth most influential channel for retail (18%, n=72), this was the highest ranking of any
advertising across all the industries.
Online reviews were found to be the most influential for both Millennials (56%, n=61) and Generation X
(53%, n=67). Baby Boomers felt word-of-mouth was most influential (49%, n=62) and the Silent Generation
said it was promotions (36%, n=11). Websites for retail companies were found to be a moderately influential
source for all, but lowest for Baby Boomers (19%, n=24). Television commercials were the highest rated out
of all the advertising channels for all the generations.
Diving deeper into retail, respondents were
asked how much influence they believed
social media had in each of the following
four retail segments: home improvement
stores, grocery stores, department stores,
and drug/health and beauty stores. In
looking at all the generations, they ranked
the level of influence fairly consistently
across the four with department stores
being slightly higher (28%, n=109) and
grocery stores being the lowest (22%, n=85).
Overall, Millennials and Generation X reported social media were most influential in their decision-making in
drug/health & beauty stores (35%, n=38; 27%, n=34). As was seen with most of the analysis by generation in
this report, the influence of social media in retail declined as the generations increased in age. Out of the
four segments, Baby Boomers indicated that social media were more influential for their purchases at
department stores (25%, n=31) and home improvement stores (25%, n=31). The Silent Generation were
least likely to say that the various sectors were influential, but 13% (n=4) did indicate that drug/health &
beauty stores were influential.