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JULY 23, 2015

One of the biggest shifts going on in economics is the growing use of digital data for research. The Internet and cloud computing platforms are generating large amounts  of digital data on pretty much all areas of business and economics. In fact, the amount data is growing much faster than our ability to analyze and use it. In our work we've seen a clear shift to using digital data and away from our traditional sources - surveys and government produced data.

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MAY 21, 2018

According to Crunchbase , an "analysis of residential-focused real estate startups uncovered a raft of companies with a shared and temporary housing focus that have raised funding in the past year or so."

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APRIL 16, 2018

  We're in the data analysis phase of a new study looking in more detail at how Americans view the risk associated with starting a business.  According to a report from the global financial giant UBS , 72% of Millennials say starting a business appeals to them.

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MAY 10, 2018

Census non-employer business dataset for this analysis.  So it was a good choice for the analysis done in this study.

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MAY 17, 2018

  The study -  Uber and the Labor Market  - is based on a detailed analysis of driver income and expenses.  Our analysis showed average earnings after expenses of $12-$14 dollars per hour. 

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FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The good news is quantum computing would greatly improve many things, including weather forecasting, financial analysis, logistical planning, drug discovery and curing disease.  Intel recently announced they've developed a quantum computer chip.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Their analysis shows an estimated 75% of the US drinking age population resides within 10 miles of a brewery. In 2016, a new craft or micro brewery opened in the US on average every 11 hours. Pretty amazing. Also, the roughly 5,300 U.S. craft and micro breweries produced 24.6

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MARCH 8, 2018

The only problem was their analysis was flawed, something they conceded this week.  A study on ridesharing drivers -  The Economics of Ride-Hailing: Driver Revenue, Expenses and Taxes - was released last week by the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. Their finding that the ridesharing drivers working for firms like Uber and Lyft have median earnings $3.37 per hour was widely covered in the press.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

Technological advances such as machine learning are taking the complexity out of data analysis, providing small businesses with the ability to make faster, better decisions.  Last week Intuit released the Slideshare presentation  The Future of Small Business.

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MAY 25, 2017

Plant Data/Analysis : systems that help farmers understand plant composition (microbial makeup, genetic expression, etc.) Tech startups are increasingly targeting agriculture.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

According to an analysis by Intuit of its early borrowers: 46 percent of QuickBooks Capital customers had never applied for a loan before.

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JUNE 1, 2017

roads spiking; cellphones eyed : Pedestrian deaths are climbing faster than motorist fatalities, reaching nearly 6,000 last year - the highest total in more than two decades, according to an analysis of preliminary state data released Thursday.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

  Finally, see the Tax Policy Center's analysis of the bill. 

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

Key quote on what this means: Employees, already familiar with behavior influencing through contextual algorithms on consumer sites such as Amazon, will be influenced by an emerging set of “persuasive technologies” that leverage big data from myriad sources, mobile, IoT devices and deep analysis.

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AUGUST 29, 2017

Spend Matters analyst Andrew Karpie's article Upwork Launches Talent Services Division to Enable Enterprise Use of Online Freelance Workforce provides an excellent analysis of this new effort. We attended Upwork's Work Without Limits Executive Summit last week.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The quick summary of our analysis of the Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill on independent workers is: Low and moderate income independent workers would likely be worse off due to the reductions in medicaid and elimination of subsidies provided by the ACA (Obamacare). Normally the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) does an analysis of the impact of new bills.   The Kaiser Family Foundation's analysis shows the impacts of the bill on a state by state basis.

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AUGUST 2, 2016

How coworking is defined is an important attribute of any coworking industry analysis. Coworking is booming. The industry is growing and hybridizing so fast , we're having a hard time keeping up with it. 

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MARCH 27, 2017

  It pushes against bureaucratic overthinking, analysis-paralysis, and excessive whiteboarding.  A recent ad campaign by Fiverr  attracted a lot of attention, most of which was negative.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) : Refers to the use of computer systems to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of designs of parts, final products, and even entire production systems or factory environments.

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MAY 4, 2015

According to analysis by Deskmag, global interest in coworking is booming and at all time highs. The annual Global Coworking Unconference Conference  (GCUC) is this week in Berkeley, California. And it's good times for this industry.

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JUNE 9, 2016

The MBO Partners 2016 State of Independence in America report was released this week. This  This is the 6th annual edition of this study (Emergent Research works with MBO Partners on this study).

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

These profiles were developed using cluster analysis to group ODE workers who share similar motivations and attitudes.  Last week Intuit released The Five Faces of the On-Demand Economy , which covers 5 common profiles of on-demand workers.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2016

For another analysis of these studies, see Bloomberg View's Your Uber Driver Probably Has Another Job.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently did an analysis of contingent work and found 85% of independent contractors are content being independent and would not want to be traditional employees.

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JULY 7, 2010

  In March, the BLS released their annual analysis of the number and characteristics of foreign born U.S. workers. 

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APRIL 14, 2015

But it's clear from our preliminary analysis of the results that work/life blending is common among coworking members. We quit using the term "work/life balance" many years ago. It simply doesn't fit the world most of us live in.

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MAY 10, 2010

  It is a analyst service that provides research reports and analysis on emerging technology. 

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MARCH 9, 2015

Strategy & Business , one of our favorite publications, has a good article on trend analysis. When Megatrends Collide is written by a trio of partners from the giant accounting and consulting firm PwC.    The article provides a primer on identifying and using megatrends.

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JULY 16, 2014

Also released recently was Business Insider's analysis of the amount of venture capital flowing into the Bitcoin industry. CoinDesk, an online site that covers the Bitcoin industry, released their State of Bitcoin Q2 2014 report.

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OCTOBER 28, 2014

But we consider two to be of the greatest importance to us in our trend spotting and analysis work. The Harvard Business Review article Where to Find Insight provides a good primer on how to spot trends and create business insight that can drive innovation.

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JULY 23, 2014

This analysis shows fewer part-timers for economic reasons and a decline in the overall percentage of people working part-time. We really like interesting data visualizations here at Small Business Labs.

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JUNE 12, 2014

It's also leading to more timely and accurate analysis and deeper bahavior insights. MIT Technology Review's The Emerging Science of Computational Anthropology  covers how digital data is creating new opportunities to study human behavior.

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

One of my favorite technology trend analysis and forecasting efforts is Gartner's annual Hype Cycle report.     The Gartner chart below summarizes the analysis for 2010. 

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DECEMBER 10, 2015

But even though they are excluded from their analysis, they would likely be included in any portable benefit laws. Busy week in DC related to the new economy: The Hamilton Project at Brookings hosted a gig economy event yesterday. The main topic was potential labor law changes. Brookings proposal is laid out in their paper Modernizing Labor Laws in the Online Gig Economy. It has multiple law change proposals, with the big one being creating portable benefits for gig workers.

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

About 875,000 more households are now made up of young adult renters than would have existed if the 2008-era trend had held steady, according to an analysis of census data by Jed Kolko, chief economist at Trulia, a real estate marketing website. According to several recent articles the financial problems of millennials is leading to changing behaviors and purchase patterns as well as broader societal shifts.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

 This is the 3rd year we've worked with MBO Partners on this study and it's the most in-depth analysis of the independent workforce (freelancers, the self-employed, etc.) The 2013 MBO Partners State of Independence Report was released today.

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JULY 30, 2015

This is done by thorough data collection and rigorous analysis, both of which require a lot of time - often years in the case of the data.  Fusion's There are probably way more people in the 'gig economy' than we realize covers a major shift in thinking about how many people in the U.S.

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MARCH 31, 2015

Zen99's interesting analysis  of recruitment spend by on-demand economy companies, which we covered yesterday, shows the extent of the industry's recruiting efforts. It seems almost every day an on-demand economy company announces a big fund raise. For example, the delivery service Door Dash announced last week it raised an additional $40 million. 

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APRIL 9, 2014

 There are several worth noting: Industry Analyst/Journalism Hybrid : These are firms that are augmenting or replacing their traditional advertising based business models by adding industry analysis and/or research services. BI Intelligence : provides data and analysis on a wide range of digital topics. They do more in-depth analysis than the typical news site and claim they are filling a gap between traditional journalism and industry analysis.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

  As part of the 2014 State of Independence research we conducted a cluster analysis looking at why people become and stay independent workers (self-employed, freelancers, etc.).   Interestingly, our cluster analysis shows most independent workers who report being satisfied or highly satisfied with independent work are almost evenly split between the fulfilling work cluster and the flexibility cluster as their main motivation for being an independent worker.

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