Podcast industry ranking for April 2016

Podcasting is a wonderful alternative to music or radio while traveling, walking, or chill'in at the house.

What are the top podcasts?

http://podtrac.com/industry-rankings

Why graph databases are so effective in analytics projects

Graph databases relative to relational databases.  Read on...

How are organizations putting graph databases to use?

"Financial services companies are using graph databases to assist them in discovering instances of both internal and external fraud," said Boyd. "In retail, companies are using the technology to help them with purchase recommendations for customers. In logistics, graph databases are being used to plan package routings — and in networking and IT, it is being used in root cause analysis."

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-graph-databases-are-so-effective-in-analytics-projects

Snapchat Now Serving 10 Billion Video Views Per Day – The Evolution of the Ghost

WOW! Billion's with a capital B!  Snapchat is now king.

Number of views per day:

• ~10 billion on Snapchat
• ~  8 billion on Facebook
• ~  5 billion on YouTube

http://www.socialmediatoday.com/social-networks/snapchat-now-serving-10-billion-video-views-day-evolution-ghost

Twitter Bars Intelligence Agencies From Using Analytics Service

Is privacy more important than a human life?

"the latest example of tension between Silicon Valley and the federal government over terrorism and privacy.

Dataminr says it first notified clients about the March attacks in Brussels 10 minutes ahead of news media.
PHOTO: GEERT VANDEN/ZUMA PRESS

http://www.wsj.com/article_email/twitter-bars-intelligence-agencies-from-using-analytics-service-1462751682-lMyQjAxMTE2MzAwOTUwNzkzWj