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Knowing the Present

May
7

Recently, Google posted a blog discussing the concept of Present Analytics. Essentially, if you are able to understand and act on the present quicker than your competition than you are much better off. To read the full report go here.

On a related note of knowing the present, MicroStrategy released a dashboard using all of the stimulus money to show what agencies are getting the money and when. Click here to see the dashboard. It’s a powerful tool, and as a taxpayer I feel better that I know the present state of the usage of the stimulus package.

What can you and your company do with data to understand the present better? Sometimes just taking the data you already have and visualizing it helps.

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