Mixpanel Offers Free Device And OS Data With Mixpanel Trends
Andreessen Horowitz-backed analytics startup Mixpanel is aiming to become one of the go-to data sources when you need to learn about the digital landscape, particularly consumer activity on mobile.
The company is launching a new feature called Mixpanel Trends, which pulls together the data that it has been collecting for customers (Mixpanel says it tracks 6.2 billion actions every month) in an aggregated, anonymized fashion. The Trends page offers six reports: Android OS versions, iOS versions, desktop versus mobile, Android versus iOS, top U.S. cities and Android device manufacturers.
This is the first time Mixpanel is offering its data to the public for free. Co-founder Suhail Doshi said that he realized that “a lot of companies don’t really know” much about the broader landscape and they end up making decisions like whether to build for iOS or Android first, or to launch in a specific city, based on “the opinion of somebody in the room” rather than actual data.
And while there are plenty of other companies releasing their own reports on things like iOS versus Android, Doshi and Mixpanel’s director of corporate communications Nicole Leverich noted that these aren’t just canned blog posts and charts that only focus on whatever the company wants to talk about. Instead they’re interactive charts that pull real-time Mixpanel data. (The interactivity is a bit limited for now, but you can adjust the time period that you’re examining.) Doshi compared them to Google Trends.
“I really hate that companies lock up the data or make you buy the information,” he said.
One thing to keep in mind: As with many of these company reports, this isn’t comprehensive industry data, but rather information about Mixpanel’s customer base, which could skew the results. For example, Doshi noted that Mixpanel clients are “a little bit more mobile.” (The actual desktop versus mobile report shows that mobile usage and desktop usage are usually pretty close.) As for whether companies mind their data being used for this reports, apparently it’s allowed by Mixpanel’s terms of service. Plus, Doshi said the vast majority of them don’t care.
And yes, the company plans to make more reports available over time.
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Apple’s Record First Quarter Of 2013, In Charts
There are plenty of nifty tidbits to sort through in Apple’s most recent earnings release, so here’s a little aid if you’re more of a visual learner than a text skimmer. We (by which I mean our graphics guy Bryce) have crafted a handful of charts to help you more easily sift through Apple’s quarterly accomplishments, and hey — if you feel like learning a little more, clicking each of the charts will take you to a full post on the matter.
A quick overview of Apple’s earnings:
Apple’s wimpy quarterly Mac sales:
And Apple’s record iOS device sales:
Apple’s retail performance:
Apple’s cash position:
More to come!
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Modern Atlantis: Sandy Island shown in marine charts, Google Maps and Earth, doesn’t actually exist
There’s a South Pacific island positioned midway between Australia and New Caledonia featured on various marine charts, world maps, and has appeared in publications since at least the year 2000. It’s listed as Sandy Island on Google Maps and Google Earth, and yet Australian scientists have just discovered it doesn’t exist.
As part of a 25-day voyage, the group went to the area, only to find 1,400m (4,620ft) of the Coral Sea. The team collected 197 different rock samples, more than 6800km of marine geophysical data, and mapped over 14,000 square kilometres of the ocean floor.
“We all had a good giggle at Google as we sailed through the island, then we started compiling information about the seafloor, which we will send to the relevant authorities so that we can change the world map,” Steven Micklethwaite from the University of Western Australia told SMH.
“We wanted to check it out because the navigation charts on board the ship showed a water depth of 1,400m in that area – very deep,” Dr. Seton of the University of Sydney, told the AFP.”It’s on Google Earth and other maps so we went to check and there was no island. We’re really puzzled. It’s quite bizarre. How did it find its way onto the maps? We just don’t know, but we plan to follow up and find out.”
If the invisible island existed, it would sit within French territorial waters. It’s not featured on French government maps, however, so where did the Australian government get Sandy Island from? Australia’s Hydrographic Service, responsible for the country’s nautical charts, suggests it’s likely just human error that has been handed down over the years, all the way to Google Maps and Google Earth.
See also – Google Maps brings over 10,000 indoor floor plans to the desktop and The native Google Maps app for iOS will reportedly have turn-by-turn navigation when launched
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Tuition.io, The Mint.com Of Student Loans, Now Manages Over $60M In Debt Across Its Platform
Tuition.io, a company out of Launchpad.la accelerator, is now accounting for over $60 million in aggregate user debt on its platform.
Essentially the Mint.com for students in debt, aTuition.io lets kids fresh out of college get a better handle on their finances. And according to the company, 37 million Americans have student loan debt, 38 percent of whom are not making any progress paying it off.
So, if anything, Tuition.io is right on time if not already late. The founder himself, Brendon McQueen, graduated from Columbia with 12 student loans and over $120,000 in debt, so he is certainly solving a pain point he understands.
The service works by bringing together all of a student’s loans into a single interface. The user can visualize the debt in various charts and graphs, or see a comprehensive calendar of which loan payments are due during different parts of the month. Tuition.io even does all the math concerning the best way to payoff debt based on your own unique budget and lifestyle. Users can then reduce monthly payments as needed.
The company plans on continuing to build out user-friendly features in the future. For now, however, the service is invite-only.
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