sexta-feira, julho 26, 2013

Datasets for data mining

Data Markets and Data Exploration Sites




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Here is a big collection of data services, data marketplaces, data search tools, social data sources, portals, platforms, sources for Government, NGO, local, and news data, and more.

Here is a big collection of sites and services for accessing data, published by VisualingData, July 2013, which I reorganized for easier access. Check also KDnuggets Datasets and services directory.

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quinta-feira, julho 25, 2013

Paid Music Downloads Are Declining. But Why?

http://evolver.fm/2013/07/23/paid-music-downloads-are-declining-but-why/

 

Paid Music Downloads Are Declining… But Why?






Provided by Nielsen SoundScan to Digital Music News

Paid downloads, the songs people pay for individually the way they do with CDs, have officially stopped their ascent. According to Nielsen SoundScan data, digital song sales dropped 2.3 percent over the first half of 2013 over the same period last year. In terms of the straight numbers, music fans purchased 698 million song downloads in the first six months of last year, and only 682.2 million this year.

This marks the first time that paid music downloads have declined for two consecutive reporting periods.

The consensus on why this is happening appears to be that more people are switching to on-demand streaming services such as Rdio, Rhapsody, and Spotify, which obviate the need to purchase much of what is on iTunes.

For the serious music fan, it makes more economic sense to pay $10 per month for access to everything than to pay $1 for access to a single song. However, convenience plays a part in this too.

With paid downloads comes personal storage, meaning that you, the purchaser, must find a way to store your music. This makes you, in addition to being a music fan, your own "music system administrator," who must not only purchase, sync, and back up hard drives, but must also decide whether to pay for a proprietary service like Apple iCloud or Amazon CloudDrive, or to use Google's free music locker, which limits you to 20,000 songs, and lacks a native iOS client.

The difficulties of moving music collections from one computer to another, from computer to smartphone or from one service to another has become tedious, and not always even possible, as the number of divergent options for acquiring music has grown.

The users of on-demand streaming services don't need to worry about any of this stuff. They just pay their $10 per month and can access just about anything, anywhere, with the ability to store that music on their devices for when an internet connection is slow or unavailable. This platform-neutral approach puts the music first, and the hardware second, which seems to work for an increasing number of music fans.

Yes, we realize that plenty of rare, new, or prized music is not available on these streaming services, and that specific artists sometimes pull their albums for whatever reason. You're always free to download those (and, in the case of Google Play Music All Access, upload them alongside your on-demand tracks, or in the case of Spotify, import them).

There's only one big downside, for those of us who have been at this music game since physical formats ruled it — you don't get to feel like you "own" your music anymore. Judging from this unprecedented decline in paid music downloads, more people are willing to put up with that, or might be unfamiliar with the concept entirely.

 

Top Ten For Streaming and Radio Are Different

http://audio4cast.com/2013/07/23/top-ten-for-streaming-and-radio-are-different/

Top Ten For Streaming and Radio Are Different

By Jennifer Lane on July 23, 2013

The latest release of music sales figures by Nielsen and Billboard is surprising – digital song sales, which had been on an upward trajectory, seem to have taken a turn. Sales of albums and tracks, which grew 4% last year were down 4.6% for the same six month period.

At the same time, streaming volume is soaring, up 24% over last year, telling the full story behind the dip in digital song sales. The fact is, consumer attitudes toward ownership of music are changing. Streaming access to songs through services like Spotify are making it more attractive to subscribe to services to have access to the music you want to hear.

One of the remarkable things to note about this report is the wide disparity between the Top Ten Streamed Songs and the Top Ten Most Played Radio Songs. Seven of the songs on Radio's top ten list are not on the Streaming top ten. So when folks are given the option to stream a song and hear whatever they want, they're choosing a playlist that is 70% different than the one their favorite radio station is choosing for them.

There's a lot of talk about research that shows that listening to broadcast is not being replaced by listening online. And that may be true. But it may also be true that there's a new order driving the popularity of songs and artists, and broadcast radio would do well to recognize that.

 

 

Brazil Among Fastest Growth Markets for Online Video

 

Brazil Among Fastest Growth Markets for Online Video

 

Jul 24, 2013

 

Online video viewing in Brazil becomes increasingly social and on-demand

Brazil remains a hot-paced internet uptake market, but that doesn't mean more internet users translates to more online video viewers. According to comScoredata, between December 2011 and January 2013, Brazil kept its 42.9 million online video viewers, but the share of internet users watching videos online actually shrank from 83% to 81.4% during that period.

This means that growth is coming from deepening usage, with virtually the same number of viewers watching more videos and spending more time doing so. comScore showed that the number of online videos per viewer in Brazil grew 18%—from 109 to 128—while online viewers were spending almost 50 more minutes streaming videos compared to just more than a year before. These numbers put Brazil ahead of UK, US and worldwide averages in terms of online video growth.

As expected, Google sites captured the attention of the majority of online video viewers in Brazil. But videos shared on social networks are gaining ground. Facebook showed over 400% growth in video viewing between December 2011 and December 2012, compared to a 7% drop for YouTube.

When it comes to content, consumer data from ad network Hi-Midia and research company M.sense revealed online video viewers in Brazil had strong interest in music—which reinforces VEVO's second place in comScore's ranking. Following the traditional popularity of humorous videos, movies were one of the leading interests among respondents.

Helping to explain the popularity of movies online, a May 2013 study from research institute Dataxis showed 2.48 million video-on-demand (VOD) subscribers in Brazil this year. Dataxis forecast the market will reach 4.2 million subscribers by the end of 2014, and breaking 13 million by 2017—an average 50% growth per year that puts Brazil's VOD market ahead of Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela.

 


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Unilever passa Casas Bahia e se torna maior anunciante do Brasil

25 de julho de 2013 · Atualizado às 09h41

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Dados do Ibope Media revelam uma mudança importante no mercado publicitário nacional. A Unilever, dona das marcas Dove, Axe, Omo, entre outras, conquistou, no primeiro semestre deste ano, o posto de maior empresa anunciante do país. A Casas Bahia ocupava a posição há 11 anos.

Em comparação ao primeiro semestre de 2012, a multinacional de bens de consumo ampliou seus gastos com anúncios em 53%, foram R$ 2,2 bilhões investidos.

 

Já a Casas Bahia, por sua vez, reduziu em 5% o volume de capital investido em publicidade no mesmo período. Foram R$ 1,59 bilhão, segundo dados do Ibope Media.

 

Conforme informa a Folha, R$ 52 bilhões foram investidos em publicidade no país no primeiro semestre, um crescimento de 19% ante o mesmo período de 2012. Os valores não descontam a inflação do período.

 

No que se refere ao bolo publicitário, a TV obteve 53% dos investimentos, seguida pelos jornais, com 17%. Apesar do crescimento de internautas no país - chegamos aos 102 milhões, conforme informa o próprio Ibope - a rede mundial de computadores tem participação de apenas 7% do bolo.

 

TV por assinatura e revista, com 7% e 6% vêm em seguida.

 

Vale lembrar que em 2013, o instituto de pesquisa incluiu o "merchandising de TV" na conta. Esse tipo de ação obteve 5% do investimento total no primeiro semestre.

 

Saiba como ficou o ranking das agências clicando aqui.

 

Confira a lista dos 30 maiores:

 

Ran 2012 

 Ran 2013 

TOP 30 ANUNCIANTES

Jan a Jun/2013

 Jan a Jun/2012 

R$

 R$ 

2

1

UNILEVER BRASIL

         2.242.541.890

         1.463.915.000

1

2

CASAS BAHIA

         1.593.341.010

         1.684.650.000

#

3

GENOMMA

         1.269.904.050

            214.965.130

4

4

AMBEV

            961.602.210

            793.287.000

3

5

CAIXA (GFC)

            710.817.490

            796.527.000

9

6

VOLKSWAGEN

            662.698.110

            477.166.000

12

7

FIAT

            587.781.020

            416.671.000

13

8

PETROBRAS (GFC)

            575.169.720

            416.146.000

5

9

SKY BRASIL

            548.852.520

            777.950.000

17

10

HYPERMARCAS

            496.422.420

            404.121.000

19

11

RECKITT BENCKISER

            481.924.540

            351.593.000

11

12

VIVO

            468.276.390

            447.834.000

15

13

BRADESCO

            435.059.700

            405.814.000

16

14

GRUPO PAO DE ACUCAR

            434.598.290

            404.706.000

6

15

GENERAL MOTORS

            404.640.900

            539.874.000

#

16

RENAULT DO BRASIL

            398.407.000

            233.981.300

7

17

CERVEJARIA PETROPOLIS

            390.278.470

            484.914.000

21

18

BCO DO BRASIL (GFC)

            379.709.080

            342.290.000

#

19

L OREAL

            376.408.440

            242.323.170

24

20

COCA COLA

            360.221.370

            317.909.000

8

21

HYUNDAI CAOA

            352.759.960

            481.269.000

18

22

PROCTER E GAMBLE

            350.243.460

            393.197.000

23

23

ITAU

            346.758.600

            333.569.000

#

24

FORD

            346.737.910

            201.535.340

22

25

TIM BRASIL

            342.953.490

            339.296.000

30

26

HP - HEWLETT PACKARD

            330.281.490

            248.025.000

#

27

O BOTICARIO

            307.205.730

            204.981.190

25

28

NET COMUNICACAO

            301.329.030

            314.108.000

20

29

COLGATE PALMOLIVE

            294.338.110

            346.259.000

14

30

OI

            291.000.130

            415.483.000

 

 

 

 

 

# Não classificado entre os 30 maiores em 2012.

 

 

Via Folha de S. Paulo e Ibope.