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How Much Do Americans Spend on Halloween?
Every year Halloween seems to become a bigger holiday. In the US, we spent about $7 billion this Halloween on costumes, decorations and candy this year. Who did we dress in costumes? Adult and...
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Harvard MBA Class of 2015 Job Profile
Three-fourths of the Harvard Business School Class of 2015 took jobs in financial services, consulting and technology firms. The others went to health care, manufacturing, government and non-profit...
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Big 4 Thought Leadership
Each of the Big 4 consulting firms target the same industries in their thought leadership. Financial services, primary industries (e.g., oil and gas, energy) and other services industries account for...
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Mekko Graphics 7.0.200.356 Release Notes Overview – This release is a minor update to 7.0.0.2120 to add compatibility with El Capitan. Note that this release is compatible with Mac Office 2011 and Mac...
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Apple Leads in Smartphone Profits
While smartphones seem to be ubiquitous, Apple is the manufacturer that is deriving most of the benefit. According to a Canaccord Genuity analysis, Apple accrued 94% of smartphones profits in Q3 2015....
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Plastic Surgery Variation by Country
There are significant differences in the types of plastic surgery procedures performed in different countries. Among the four countries with the most procedures performed, procedures on the face and...
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Climate Change and Poverty
One of the hard questions in the climate change debate is the degree to which developing nations should be allowed to increase their carbon emissions. The charts below, based on data from the World...
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Exports from Least Developed Countries
The 48 LDCs export $192 billion to the developed nations, according to data provided by the WTO. Fuel and mining account for almost 60% of the total with Angola as the leading exporter in this...
View ArticleMekko Graphics 7.0.6.2222 Release Notes
Overview – This is a minor release that includes bug fixes. This release is compatible with MS Office 2016 and Windows 10. In addition, floating toolbars were returned back to right-click menus. Major...
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Star Wars’ Record Opening Weekend
Star Wars: The Force Awakens set the record for US box office revenue on its opening weekend. The Disney movie made almost $250 million, which was 79% of the total box office for the weekend. Since...
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Converting What We Grow to What We Eat
Two-thirds of the crops we grow are not converted to calories that humans consume. Waste from crops left in the ground, harvested but not eaten, and thrown in the home trash account for 2,300 of the...
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Philanthropy Mix of the Ultra Wealthy
The world’s 55,000 ultra high net worth individuals are major contributors to charitable causes. According to Wealth-X and Arton Capital Philanthropy, 11,000 UHNW individuals gave gifts of $1 million...
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U.S. Cities with Greatest Income Inequality
Boston is the major US city with the greatest income inequality, based on an analysis by the Brooking Institution. Households in the 95th percentile of income earn 17.8 times more than households in...
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Worldwide Flow of Oil
Oil prices have significant impact on trade and regional economies. The chart below, based on data from BP, shows which regions are the largest importers of oil and from where these imports come....
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Presidential Campaign Money Race
Running for president can be expensive. The presidential candidates have raised over $ 740 million directly and through their political action committees (PACs). The Republican candidates have raised...
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Super Bowl 50 Ads
Food, drink, cars, computers and movies accounted for most of this year’s Super Bowl ads. Anheuser-Busch, PepsiCo and Hyundai were the only companies with three or more ads. WeatherTech, Persil and...
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We have received many questions from users about how to add superscripts to chart labels that correspond to footnotes on the slide. Here’s how you do it: Click on the chart label you want to edit and...
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Valentine’s Day Spend
Ninety percent of American adults spend over $12 billion on Valentine’s Day gifts for their spouses and significant others. Jewelry is the largest gift category and its average purchase price is the...
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Projected Economic Growth for Top 10 Countries
India will lead all other major economies in growth over the next decade, according to data from the Harvard University Center for International Development. India’s projected annual growth rate of...
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Smartphone Ownership and National Income
Smartphone ownership is highly correlated with national income, but there are some exceptions. Among the developing economies, Malaysia, Chile and Turkeylead the others with over 60% of adults owning...
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