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Shows you the technological progress we've made in 15 years too. Just look at the way the computing power has increased & at the same time reduced in cost.
Most stats show the difference between 1996 & 2011. It could've done with an intermediate period circa 2002-03 when Win XP was at its peak, especially for browser share (IE had ~90% of the market).
Many ways of looking at these charts:- Proof that the world is becoming flatter- The wealth for entry level employment is being transferred from US to developing economies- Outsourcing works
On a side note, even Hollywood acknowledged that the entry level wealth is moving east in the Karate Kid remake...
Not all are Apple to apple comparisons, but does have some interesting stats nonetheless. It uses Apple's market cap for comparison.
"Google Correlate finds search patterns which correspond with real-world trends"
How to lie with statistics, or how surveys can be flawed in a major way...
A very handy tool to analyse the different parameters of your photograph.
"ExposurePlot (former FocalPlot) is a new free utility that analyzes your usage of the focal length of your lenses (jpeg only), show charts for ISO, aperture and shutterspeed.Great to determine which lens you 'really' need, or which lens did you actually use on the trip to the mountains."
Very relevant points to consider when doing a survey & even while looking at the results of one. Quite similar to the points raised in the book "How to lie with statistics"
Based on per capita stats. Interesting classifications.
Interesting and simple way to look at conditional probability. Would also be interesting to relate it to octopus Paul & his WC 2010 predictions.
"More than ten years into the widespread business adoption of the Web, some managers still fail to grasp the economic implications of cheap and ubiquitous information on and about their business. Hal Varian, professor of information sciences, business, an
FlowingData is the visualization and statistics site of Nathan Yau, highlighting how designers, programmers, and statisticians are putting data to good use. Has quite a lot of interesting visualizations.
"The question facing every company today, every startup, every non-profit, every project site that wants to attract a community, is how to use data effectively -- not just their own data, but all the data that's available and relevant. Using data effectiv
Note that this was just demonstrated as a correlation, nothing more. Nabbing someone as a Facebook fan hasn’t been proven to increase spending in this study. The study just demonstrates that people who become fans of brands are more likely to spend and ev
Interesting statistics, albeit from US users
That's showing them...
'The binary comparison indicated that, if anything, adhering to the recommended vaccination schedule improved the children's cognitive development, as those kids outscored the least timely group on 12 of the 42 tests, whereas the co
Interesting classifications & stats.
Zipf's law & its applicability to cities.
I'm still not much of an SMSer, but I do feel the effects of the mobile phone daily.
via http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/20/kids-and-mobile-phon.html
Algorithms to predict consumer behaviour & risk. Wonder what's left for them to predict.
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