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Live Map Shows Every Foursquare User Who’s Voting Today, Where and When
It’s kind of interesting because it includes user info like gender, and where and when votes were concentrated. Check it out.
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Google Street View car fleet gets ready to conquer (and map) the world Ever wonder how Google can make such grandiose claims for the sheer amount of Street View imagery it collects? Here’s how. Google’s Masrur Odinaev has posted a snapshot of a central mapping car parking lot that shows dozens of the camera-equipped Subaru Imprezas amassed ahead of future runs. While it already represents more Street View cars in one place than anyone outside of Google would normally ever see, what’s most impressive is remembering that this addresses just a portion of the entire vehicle mix — aside from the local cars you don’t see in the photo, there are extra units worldwide providing street-level coverage alongside tricycles and underwater expeditions. Odinaev’s look reminds us just how much effort is needed to make Street View a common feature — and that there are are legions of Google staffers whose low-profile work goes a long way towards making our navigation easier. Filed under: GPS, Transportation, Internet, Google Visualized: Google Street View car fleet gets ready to conquer (and map) the world originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Oct 2012 02:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | The Closest Starbucks Is Never More Than 170 Miles AwaySource: http://www.businessinsider.com/starbucks-map-2012-10
Astronomer James R.A. Davenport posted this fantastic map on his blog If We Assume. It shows every company-owned Starbucks in the U.S., which means all the franchised Starbucks locations are not shown. Davenport writes that the farthest you can ever get from a corporate Starbucks in the mainland U.S. is 170 miles. That’s a bit more than the 115-mile number posted by McDonald’s, points out Paula Forbes at Eater. Another great stat from Davenport is the number of people that live quite close to a Starbucks. He explains: There are ~311 million people living in the USA, with 82% living in urbanized areas. One might define urbanization in the modern era as the distance to the nearest Starbucks. An “urban” environment would therefore be anyplace within a 20 mile radius. Yes, more than 80% of the USA (that’s 250,000,000 people) live within 20 miles of a Starbucks. NOW SEE: 15 Crazy Starbucks Customers Who Will Make You Never Want To Be A Barista >
Please follow Retail on Twitter and Facebook. Join the co! nversati on about this story » All you need to do is choose a city and a neighborhood to get started. From there you can narrow down your options by choosing the number of bedrooms you want in your apartment and a price range. As you make your selections, Lovely will provide you with a grid of photos depicting the various apartments available to you. From there you can click on anything appealing for more information and view the entire listing if you choose. While browsing on a map is great, sometimes you just want to pick the places that look the best before you worry too much about the exact location. Lovely’s new tool helps you do just that. Gaia Soda Wants You To Ditch Your Fancy Soda StreamSource: http://www.businessinsider.com/gaia-soda-alternative-to-soda-stream-2012-5
Whether you bought into the home carbonation craze or not, a lot of consumers are voicing concerns that gadgets like the Soda Stream are just another green fad. The CO2 cartridges are expensive to refill, and like the water bottles they’re meant to replace, they can easily pile up in landfills. Enter Gaia Organic Soda System, a company that positions itself as the anti-Soda Stream with a line of organic all-natural syrups. Rather than rip off consumers with CO2 refill cartridges that cost $13 to $15 plus shipping, Gaia lets customers fill their 12 oz. cylinder near their homes for $3 to $5. They even rolled out an interactive map to help them locate a refill station. “When you refill closer to home, its’ a greener choice,” the company says on its site. “In addition, we’ve developed a delicious, all natural, and organic line of flavor syrups in both regular and diet.” Gaia may very well be a cheaper alternative to Soda Stream, but frankly anything sounds better than rotting your teeth with a can of soda. If you’ve been trying to kick the habit, we recommend going the old-fashioned route with a twist of lime and some cheap Pellegrino. DON’T MISS: 13 health gimmicks you can stop wasting money on >
Please follow Your Money on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story » This is What Three Years of GPS Data Looks LikeSource: http://gizmodo.com/5893151/this-is-what-three-years-of-gps-data-looks-like
To make it, Aaron Parecki collected the location from his iPhone every few seconds for over three years. Then he turned his data into a map—it’s Portland, if you’re trying to work it out. He explains:
The result may be nothing new, but it sure is pretty. It’s also well worth clicking on the image above to see the full, high-res version. [Aaron Parecki] Source: http://gizmodo.com/5882542/new-york-citys-energy-consumption-mapped-out-building+by+building
The interactive map, created by Bianca Howard, a PhD student in mechanical engineering at Columbia University, uses publicly available data to work out which buildings are using the most energy and how they are using it. Then, it displays the energy use on a color-map. Howard’s PhD supervisors, Professor Modi, explains:
The resulting interactive map is great fun to play around with, allowing you to see how energy use is split down between electricity, space heating and cooling, and water heating. The best bit is that, as mentioned, its detail lets you study energy use down to the scale of individual buildings. You can play around with the map here. Every city needs something like this. [Columbia Engineering via Boing Boing] This Map Reveals The Trick Behind IKEA’s Store LayoutSource: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-brilliant-trick-behind-ikeas-store-design-2012-1
Grocery stores all use some simple tricks to disorient and delay customers, but IKEA takes the so-called Gruen Transfer to another level. A lecture on the subject by Alan Penn, professor of architectural computing at University College London, has gotten a lot of buzz this year (via Good and WSJ). Penn found that IKEA customers, following the signature yellow path, walk through the entire warehouse store. They get lost, encounter products they weren’t looking for and spend enough time shopping that they feel justified making impulse purchases. Here’s a customer heatmap from Penn’s presentation, followed by the video.
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— Here’s The Math Formula For Structuring A Groupon Deal That Doesn’t Lose Money (GRPN)
We’ve all heard the nightmare stories about Groupon merchants who lost tons of money because they were suddenly overwhelmed with thousands of customers whom they were forced to serve at a loss: The British bakery that made 102,000 cupcakes. The Irish hairdressers whose customer base now consists entirely of people who only want their hair cut a discount. The Portland cafe that lost $8,000 because the owner failed to cap the number of deals she offered. It’s not just Groupon, of course. There are loads of other daily deal sites — Living Social, Thrillist, Google Offers, etc — but they all present merchants with the same problem: The conflict between offering below-cost deals to customers in hopes of attracting long-term “regulars” and structuring a deal so that you can still make a profit. The math can be tricky because merchants have to account for two different sets of discounts: The discount to the customer and share of the payment taken by the daily deal site for publicizing the offer. Now TheDealMix, a site that aggregates daily deals into an impressively complicated map of your neighborhood, has produced an infographic that can help businesses calculate daily deal offers so th! at they won’t accidentally go bankrupt. And, yes, The DealMix has presented its formulas in the form of cupcakes — particularly useful given the number of bakery-related Groupon disasters that have made the headlines. The formulas include: Offer Price – Cost of Goods > $0 Average Customer Spend – Value of Offer + Price > Cost of Goods
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