August 5th, 2019 - Product Updates and Data Additions

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Product Updates

Instagram Followers


You can now track the number of followers for any brand on Instagram. Each brand is mapped back to a Ticker. For example, identify the companies with the most Instagram followers in aggregate.

Data Additions

Retail Products

Trulieve

Product Reviews

Yeti

Job Listings

Huhtamaki
Metsa Group
Nature Works
Asics
Parsons
Coffee Beanery
Lidl
Novolex
Dart Containers
Hoffmaster
National DCP
Reynolds Group Holdings
Pet Circle
LSI Industries
Gentex
Bank United
Hawaii Electric
Investors Bankcorp
Big Lots

Stores

Amica Mature Lifestyles
Parsons
Natuzzi
Ten Entertainment
Waste Connections
Learning Care Group
Future Retail

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July 29th, 2019 - Product Updates and Data Additions

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Common pitfalls: Creating a custom NPM package with React and TypeScript

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This article is written by Vojtech Rinik, lead frontend engineer at Thinknum. We started using React in 2014, and currently it powers most of our UI. We're at version 16.8 now, enjoying the latest features in this recent release. If you're in NYC and enjoy writing React code, check out our open positions.

I recently decided to create a private NPM package for some of the UI we use in our apps. The goal was simple. I wanted to install and start using the package with one line of code: yarn add rainbow-buttons. ("Rainbow" buttons being an example.)

I

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Car Inventory

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Thinknum's "Car Inventory" dataset tracks the inventory of all major online dealerships. Since each vehicle has a unique identification number, users are able to see when a vehicle is added or removed from a dealerships inventory. Tracking the number of vehicles leaving inventory allows users to predict sales figures.

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Utilize the Sales Analysis tool to see which cars have been sold. The number of "Lookahead Days" represents the number of days in the future that will be checked to see if the same VIN returns to the dealer's inventory.

Let's take CarMax as an example. Simply

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LinkedIn Profile

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Thinknum's "LinkedIn Profile" dataset tracks the aggregated number of profiles which list a company as their employer. As a proxy to measure employee headcount, users will be able to see whether as company is gaining or losing employees over time.

Taking Stitch Fix as an example, users will be able to see the number of followers as well as employee count.

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Switch to Chart view and utilize the "Absolute" tab to view DoD, QoQ and YoY percent change.

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Here is the link for the documentation on the columns for this dataset: Columns Definition

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