TransferWise's hockey stick growth according to Google Trends

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Finland's most connected companies

How are the decision makers of listed companies in Finland connected? Using R for collecting decision maker data and D3 for visualizing the results, I have created this network chart (sorry for the ugly iframe):


Connections are the number of connections to other boards from one company to other. KONE's board members are for instance on 13 other boards. The most connected companies on Helsinki's stock exchange are Kone, Sponda and Teleste.

Company	Connections
KONE Oyj	13
Sponda Oyj	12
Teleste Oyj	10
Outotec Oyj	10
Cargotec Oyj	10

The data has been filtered out so that only companies with at least one connection to another company are included. The data is collected from finder.fi and includes the company's management, board members, and other people with the right to sign for the company.

Network chart of board members in Helsinki

The data is scraped from the Finnish business directory finder.fi. The network chart is created using D3.js.

Supercell revenue estimate 2014

I've previously used Google Trends to estimate revenues, and I will give it another go here for the Finnish gaming company Supercell. I've gathered the combined search volume for Hay Day, Clash of Clans, and Boom Beach.

Based on the search volume, the new game Boom Beach has not yet exceeded the interest in Supercell's first game Hay Day, and is still a long way off from matching the success of Clash of Clans. The trend is however positive. The interest in Clash of Clans has continued increasing.

The total search volume for all three games has increase 330 % as compared to 2013. Based on the past correlation between revenue and search volume, I estimate Supercell's revenue to be 1.7 billions 2014.




The graph above plots the weekly search volume index summed by year against the official yearly revenue figures. The green dot represents the estimate for 2014.