Retail: Integrating Market Basket and Planogram Data

Wal-Mart, an early adopter in digital market basket analysis, determined back in 1997 that people who purchased a Barbie doll in their stores were more 60% likely to also buy one of three different candy bars. If we suppose that this information was determined around the holiday seaso

Retail: The Value of Mobile Apps and Dashboards For Store Reporting

When it comes to retail, there are a great many decisions that need to be made at all different levels of management. Before the advent of automated intelligence gathering this would all have to be done manually, and it could take weeks for the data to work its way up from the employe

Retail Series: Consumer Data and the Path to Purchase

From Small Fry to Big Fish Back in the days of the mom n’ pop shop, it was easy for a shopkeeper to provide a personal experience for their customers because they knew the name of each and every person who came into the store. Savvy retailers could then design the layout of their stor

How creative data visualization is used to shift public opinion

We here at Project X Ltd. love data, though we have to admit that raw data is not particularly relevant to the layperson who can’t make sense of it. It’s for this reason that data storytelling is becoming a hot topic for data analysts who need to be able to communicate their findings

AWS – Scalability

One of the hardest decisions when operating a business is choosing the right data storage hardware to purchase. With technology evolving at a rapid pace, it can seem overwhelming for businesses to keep current and up to date. Purchasing new servers, storage racks, switches and fans on

AWS – Security

Welcome to the third blog in our Amazon Web Services (AWS) series, today we will be discussing security in the cloud. I know there is a lot of controversy surrounding placing data in the cloud and whether or not it’s safe, so today we’re going to dive right in and hopefully eliminate

Discovering The Beauty of Data Visualization

There is a saying today that data is the new oil, a hot commodity to be commercialized and traded. In the following TED Talk by data scientist David McCandless, an author of two books on data visualization, he states we should instead refer to data as the new soil. His argument is tha

Thank you for Supporting B-Strong!

Had a great day, last Sunday at the B-Strong Walk in Markham. Thank you for everyone who participated and donated! We hit over the $1 M mark at this years walk! Thank you for supporting Brain Tumor Research!  Project X raised an amazing total of $11 210 with 41 donations. Looking forw

Join Us for the B-Strong Foundation Walk – Sunday April 24th!

Hello Everyone, One of our corporate charities is the B-Strong Foundation, which supports brain tumour research. We are going to enter a team again this year and I hope you can join us. Click here and then click on Join Team. This year marks the 5th Annual B-Strong Walk and will be he

Join Us at the Toronto MicroStrategy Symposium – April 22nd !

Project X Ltd is going to be an Exhibitor Sponsor at the Toronto MicroStrategy Symposium taking place next Friday April 22nd at Hart House Toronto. Make sure you come by the Project X Ltd booth and enter our draw for a chance to win a Golf Putter! We are excited to be a part of this e