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Statistics resources from IBM

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I’m always looking for ways of presenting information to my students in more effective ways. I’ve recently discovered an explosion in a new way of representing data and information on the WWW called infographics. Obviously, they didn’t just start popping up this year, but they seem to be everywhere at the moment. They offer great possibilities in Education across many curriculum areas.

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Internet Observatory is a free service that monitors global traffic 24 hours a day in several regions of the world. Unlike ipoque’s Internet studies that have been a reliable source for Internet traffic statistics ever since they were first published in 2006, Internet Observatory is not jus a snapshot of Internet traffic patterns during a certain time period. It is traffic statistics in real-time. But see yourself.

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A nifty little measurement tool

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R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS.

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Turns out, international teachers spend less time in front of kids (and more time in prep, grading and preparing lessons) than their American counterparts. From the blog Three Standard Deviations to the Left:

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Canada's Anti-Bullying Reporting System

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The Archivist does not have access to the Twitter "firehose" (ie., all the tweets ever on a subject). As such, the tweets archived by The Archivist are not guaranteed to represent a complete historical record of a given term or search. Read the FAQ to learn more about The Archivist.

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You likely know that Facebook is the world’s largest social network with more than 800 million users, but did you know that more than 250 million photos are uploaded every single day? Or that the average American spends seven hours and 46 minutes browsing her friends’ profiles per month?

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College students believe that technology has a direct impact on their academic performance, according to findings from a new student-driven study out of the Lone Star College System. In “The National Lone Star Report on Aligning Technology with Student Success,” 78 percent of college students reported that their grades and learning experience are improved when technology is effectively and consistently implemented on their campus.

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Every year we gaze enviously at the lists of the richest people in world.
Wondering what it would be like to have that sort of cash. But where
would you sit on one of those lists? Here's your chance to find out.

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Snapshot: Tweets, Impressions & Reach
Top 20 Lists
Drill-down Content Analysis
Detailed Contributor Lists
Full Transcripts

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"All models are wrong, but some are useful."So proclaimed statistician George Box 30 years ago, and he was right. But what choice did we have? Only models, from cosmological equations to theories of human behavior, seemed to be able to consistently, if imperfectly, explain the world around us. Until now. Today companies like Google, which have grown up in an era of massively abundant data, don't have to settle for wrong models. 

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The U.S. Census Bureau statistics tell us that there are at least 151,671 different last names and 5,163 different first names in common use in the United States. Some names are more common than others.

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Seven Billion people - where and how we live

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Now tracking 14,595 Google+ profiles

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Last month, we met with Alfredo Tan who is the National Director of Facebook Canada, and he shared with us some amazing statistics about Facebook’s Canadian user base.

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Find out which of your Twitter updates made people follow or leave you. Simply enter your Twitter ID in the following form.

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Once you have mastered the simplest of guides, you will of course want to see the impact you are having on your followers, and how much they appreciate you on Twitter. This is not such a hard task cause there are a bunch of tools out there that are just waiting for you to use them. Some are free and others operate for a small fee (if you want to have the more advanced features available).

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Below are 50 of the best data visualizations and tools for creating your own visualizations out there, covering everything from Digg activity to network connectivity to what’s currently happening on Twitter.

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