Have you seen this? www.wheresgeorge.com is an effort to track how cold hard cash is flowing across the country. You simply go to the site, enter the number of a bill into their registry, and it starts tracking. If the next recipient also tags the bill, you can watch your money flow throughout the country.
Here’s a video of why scientists are doing this… it’s a cool story of leveraging data to see how communities interact across the country.
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/follow_money.jsp
Jeremy Shapiro is an executive in HR at a leading financial services firm, working on talent analytics. Formerly a Senior Vice President of the Hodes iQ Talent Management Suite at Bernard Hodes Group and is a co-author of the HR metrics book Ultimate Performance. Jeremy has coached hundreds of companies in recruiting and HR technology solutions across industries and sizes. Jeremy is a frequent speaker and author on HR technology topics and HR Business Intelligence topics, such as SHRM, IHRIM, the Human Capital Institute, HR.com and more. He is a frequent contributor to articles and whitepapers on HR Business Intelligence. Jeremy holds a Masters of Science in Information Systems from NYU and a B.A in Economics from Rutgers University. Specific topics of research include HR metrics, talent management technology, and next generation recruiting technologies.
Talent metrics and human capital analytics galore. 
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