General Assembly invited Zimana founder Pierre DeBois and Joe Anhalt, Marketing Manager at Spothub to discuss the current state of digital marketing. The talk with budding students and young marketers took place in Space, an office incubator in Chicago. Watch these three video to gain tips on what goes on during a typical marketer's day, what […]
Mobile devices play a big part in internet usage, but they are more of necessity in places outside of the United States. African countries have been developing services with mobile phones in mind, since many have higher penetration rates among their populations. I wrote about the leader in African Mobile in an earlier blog for […]
Over the last few months, Google has introduced a treemap display in its Analytics suite. If the term “treemaps” is not familiar, then take a peak at the image below to learn what one looks like. You may seen something similar, as treemaps have grown popular in news outlets to explain scale across several items. […]
Chris Nelson, a software developer from Cincinnati, Ohio, presented an overview of the MeteorJS framework at the Angular JS meetup. The presentation was held at the DevBootCamp in Chicago. Chris has been developing web applications for about 15 years and helped found Gaslight, a collaborative workspace for developers and designers. Meteor.js is an Javascript open source framework […]
Like the infographic says, programming is "writing very specific instructions to a very dumb machine." However the kinds of programs available has grown, with enough associated frameworks to make anyone feel dumb. This infographic takes a look at selecting a starting point with a neat flow diagram that considers OS, device, and interest. The […]
If you’re in business and you have a little data - ok, a lot of data for many businesses - you may be feeling some fear. It may seemingly be fear from imagining the preparation that is needed with big data. But more than likely it’s not. It’s visualizing the data - or more precisely, […]
