{"id":14489,"date":"2016-09-02T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14489"},"modified":"2016-09-02T01:16:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T05:16:37","slug":"the-satellites-are-watching-us-to-figure-out-quarterly-business-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/the-satellites-are-watching-us-to-figure-out-quarterly-business-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Satellites Are Watching Us&#8230;To Figure Out Quarterly Business Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/090216_0503_TheSatellit1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Micro-satellites, artificial intelligence, and social media are all being used to cut through the marketing and figure out the real state of businesses writes The Economist:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Want to figure out if your local Walmart is struggling? Satellite imagery is used to approximate daily revenue by checking on how full the parking lot is.<\/li>\n<li>Factory productivity can be estimated by the number of lorries that pass through.<\/li>\n<li>The height of oil tanks varies according to the amount of oil in the tank. A taller evening shadow means greater oil reserves.<\/li>\n<li>Market moving events will be reported on social media before anywhere else. Savvy investors can make a quick buck by using social media analytics.<\/li>\n<li>One smartphone app measures how frequently users stop in a store. Any more than five minutes and it likely means they&#8217;re a patron.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read other examples of alternative-data over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21705369-alternative-data-firms-are-shedding-new-light-corporate-performance-watchers?frsc=dg%7Ce\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21705369-alternative-data-firms-are-shedding-new-light-corporate-performance-watchers?frsc=dg%7Ce\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Micro-satellites, artificial intelligence, and social media are all being used to cut through the marketing and figure out the real state of businesses writes The Economist: Want to figure out if your local Walmart is struggling? Satellite imagery is used to approximate daily revenue by checking on how full the parking lot is. Factory productivity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/090216_0503_TheSatellit1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14492,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14489\/revisions\/14492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}