Google BigQuery Helps Show How Weather Influences Shopping

Interactions, a marketing firm for supermarket chains and big box stores, announced some interesting findings based on analysis with Google’s BigQuery and Tableau, measuring the effects of major weather events on sales.

“This case study is just the first analysis in an ongoing relationship between Interactions, Google and Tableau to provide retailers and CPGS with data management solutions and insightful analysis,” a spokesperson for Interactions tells WebProNews. “While the results of the initial study may seem obvious, this type of analysis provides retailers with specific detailed information not previously available that will help them launch more successful marketing efforts resulting in increased basket size and cannibalization of competitors’ shoppers.”

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Raul Castro Meets Kenneth Kaunda

Havana, Cuba, June 7.- The President of Cuba’s Councils of State and Ministers, Army General Raul Castro held talks on Thursday with Kenneth David Kaunda, the first president of the Republic of Zambia, who is paying a visit to the island.
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The New York Times articles

News about Kenneth D. Kaunda, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. http://goo.gl/9rC1Q

Cuba: Solidarity Order for Kenneth Kaunda

The former President of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda (1964-1991) and a well-known African anti-colonialist leader, received on Tuesday in Havana the Solidarity Order given by the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba.

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A revolutionary journalist in colonial Africa

This is a story that’s never been told. It’s the story about the launch of the first truly independent African newspaper in central Africa in the late 1950s, its support for the cause of black nationalism and the role of a young English man in the launch of that newspaper.

Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in the 1950s was the last outpost of the British explorer Cecil Rhodes’ nineteenth-century empire, where Europeans viewed Africans as of a lower order. It is difficult now to imagine the outcry from the white establishment that greeted the arrival of a provocative and lively weekly tabloid newspaper—the _African Times_—aimed at the small but growing number of politically aware black citizens who were beginning to question British colonial rule.

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Flashback: KK in London with Queen Elizabeth

I’m humbled – KK

FIRST Republican President Kenneth Kaunda says he is humbled that Zambia has been recognised by the African Union (AU) for the role it played during the independence struggle of other African countries.

Dr Kaunda said in an interview on arrival on Wednesday night, ahead of being honoured by the AU for his role to liberate some African States that the recognition was not only for him, but for the Zambian people as well.

“I am grateful to the AU for recognising what Zambia did during the struggle for independence. The AU is not only honouring one man, they are honouring the whole country and I am grateful for that,” Dr Kaunda said

I’m humbled – KK | Times of Zambia