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WorldMap [OCLC - Projects]
WorldCat WorldMap global library statistics
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Counting people | Census sensitivity | Economist.com
asked some rather personal questions, such as “How much did you pay for your home?” and “How often do you wash?” But it was the standard ones about the number of residents in each household and their sex and age that provoked the most anxiety.
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GOOD Magazine | Goodmagazine - The New Nostradamus
Rise of the Psychohistorians. Except they're political scientists.
more fromwww.goodmagazine.com
Even Better Than The Real Thing
America's Army, the Army's recruitment video game, has been downloaded 17 million times. "It shows we are not robots," explained an Iraq vet who appears as a character in the game. "We're just people." - Ed. LOL!
more fromwww.motherjones.com
New software can identify you from your online habits - tech - 16 May 2007 - New Scientist Tech
Microsoft is developing software that could accurately guess your name, age, gender and potentially even your location, by analysing telltale patterns in your web browsing history. - Ed. At the Beijing lab!
more fromwww.newscientisttech.com
Foreign Policy In Focus | China in Africa: It’s (Still) the Governance, Stupid
Over 800 Chinese companies, the vast majority of them state-owned, are operating in 49 African countries.
more fromwww.fpif.org
China Country Profile - Facts, Figures and Analyses
Handy maps generated from statistical yearbooks
more fromwww.china-profile.com
A Global Projection of Subjective Well-being: A Challenge to Positive Psychology?
Mongolia happier than China! China happier than South Korea or Japan!
more fromwww.le.ac.uk
Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. 366 maps and PDF posters will be finished by February 2007.
more fromwww.worldmapper.org
Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait
Statistics tend to feel abstract, making it difficult to picture 3.6 million SUVs, or 2.3 million Americans in prison. This project visually examines these vast measures, in large prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.
more fromwww.chrisjordan.com
CCTV.com-[法治在线]“平安回家”之合法使用身份证
Slightly misplaced character strokes can give away a fake ID.
more fromnews.cctv.com
G-Econ @ Yale
The current data set (GEcon 1.3) is now publicly available and covers "gross cell product" for all regions for 1990, which includes 27,500 terrestrial observations. GCP is measured at a 1-degree longitude by 1-degree latitude resolution at a global scale.
more fromgecon.yale.edu
国家人口发展战略研究报告（全文）
The full text of the Chinese National Population Development Strategy Research Report
more fromwww.chinapop.gov.cn
The Gapminder World 2006, beta
Google statistical visualization tool
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Econbrowser: The distribution of world income
GDP by square kilometer, and how more time as a colony means more GDP
more fromwww.econbrowser.com
feltron vii
One man's annual report. That's alot of info to record.
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Student survey stumps sex specialists
6.2% admitted they already had a sexual encounter. The average age when they first had sex was about 15, said the survey of 2,300 high school students - ed. I'm stumped too. The average is of 6.2% of 2,300? How is that meaningful?
more fromwww.chinadaily.com.cn
US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud - Chirag Mehta : chir.ag
I wanna Chinese version of this
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