The Animation Guild 839 has published their latest TAG Wage Survey, and this year they show the comparison against the 2010 survey showing how fields have risen or fallen. The number of responses is still fairly small, but their survey is currently the only real compilation of this data I know of.
Check it out here.
Somewhat in response to a recent article from Gartner that put the BI space firmly in the hands of Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM, some users started a poll over at LinkedIn (See it here, account required). The results are interesting, with Spotfire coming out way in front.
Now, a few things to note first:
It’s interesting to see the difference in opinion. I think Gartner is probably right, simply because of the old adage ”Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM”. Smaller companies have more flexible and agile tools, but big business likes buying from big business, so IBM & Microsoft rule those markets.
There are also some interesting demographics to note:
If you don’t have a LinkedIn account, I’ve included the entire fully-expanded chart after the break (Showing demographic breakdowns for all 5 choices).
Nielson, collector of everything numeric and statistical regarding Television viewing habits, has just posted the results of an extensive survey on stereoscopic 3D television, and the results are depressing.
In a survey of approximately 27,000 online consumers conducted in September across 53 countries, 13 percent of respondents said they already own or ‘definitely will’ purchase a 3DTV set in the next 12 months. An additional 15 percent of global online consumers said they ‘probably will’ purchase a 3DTV.
Sports and Nature documentaries top the list of what people want to see in 3D, with Video Games and SciFi surprisingly coming in at under 50%.
via Purchase Intent for 3DTV Varies Around the Globe | Nielsen Wire.
City University London has just published the results of an extensive survey of 8000 citizens about how they feel the Leicestershire City Council (LCC) is doing in the area. Targeting everything from access to public resources to public perception of the region, the resulting interactive visualization is a wealth of information broken down by responses, demographics, and regions.
An array of information about Leicestershire can be explored – from how satisfied residents are with the quality of refuse and recycling collections to whether they feel well-informed about how their council tax is spent. The degree to which responses vary amongst groups of people with particular characteristics or from particular places can also be considered, for example: comparing the views of 66-75 year olds to those of 18-25 year olds; contrasting the opinions of people who have lived in the same place for more than 20 years with those of recent arrivals; or seeing whether people in one district are more satisfied than those in another.
Get all the details after the break, or go check the visualization out yourself.
Over at WeatherSealed, Stephen Von Worley took the data from the XKCD color survey and plotted it in an interesting new way that shows just how popular various names are used for various colors.
The Color Strata includes the 200 most common color names (excluding black-white-grayish tones), organized by hue horizontally and relative usage vertically, stacked by overall popularity, shaded representatively, and labeled where possible. Besides filtering spam, ignoring cruft, normalizing grey to gray, and correcting the most egregious misspellings (here’s looking at you, fuchsia), the results are otherwise unadulterated. As such, similar color names, like sea green, seafoam green, and seafoam, each appear separately. They’re synonymous… or are they?
If you think that’s neat, then definitely check out his “smoothed” version. Instant Wallpaper Classic.
via The Color Strata – Color Names, Common And Less So, Compared.
XKCD recently ran an interesting web survey of its users about colors. Simply presenting a color to the user and asking them to name it. Sounds simple enough, but the results are amazing. Of course, the sampleset is a bit suspect (geeks who are already Xkcd fans) and self-selected, but the results show not only interesting trends in color perception and human vision, but in the psychology. Such as:
You can still view the survey here, but definitely hit his website for some fascinating graphs.
via Color Survey Results « xkcd. via ChartPorn
CGenie has opened up this year’s “Big CG Survey”, where you can chime in on what you love and hate in all of the industry’s biggest software packages.
Head on over there and take the survey, and maybe your input will help to improve the next generation of these packages.
Another week has gone, and it’s time to draw our winners. This week’s winner of a $25 Gift Card from Amazon.com is:
Kevin K
Congratulations! I’ve just sent you an email, and you have 7 days to respond.
If you didn’t win, then don’t despair. 2010 will host more contests, more prizes, and more chances to win! So check back regularly and we hope to see you again soon!
Another week has gone, and it’s time to draw our winners. This week’s winner of a $25 Gift Card from Amazon.com is:
Eric Gusukuma
Congratulations! I’ve just sent you an email, and you have until the next drawing (7 days) to respond.. If you don’t, then the next winner gets it instead!
If you didn’t win, then don’t despair. Just take the survey again and you’ll be entered to win in the next and final round!
There’s still time! The third of our 4 $25 Gift Cards will be raffled off at 5:00pm Central today (Check the time I’m using). Not many entries this week so if you’ve been waiting, Now’s your chance. Go take the survey now and get your results in before time’s up!
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