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.)

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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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Job Listings

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Track the number of job listings each day to better understand the hiring plans of an individual company. This data set can be filtered by location, position, and industry. Certain positions and locations can be indicators of internal activity such as who the company is hiring as well as how quickly a company is expanding into a new market. Users will be able to see the overall number of job listings over time for a company giving insight into growth. Job listings is one of the drivers of turnover, since it takes more resources to hire than fire employees.

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