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linkiblog | How to Build a Popularity Algorithm You can be Proud of

2009 Sep 9, 5:49PermalinkCommentstechnical statistics algorithms howto social tutorial math popular reddit digg programming

How Different Groups Spend Their Day - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com

2009 Aug 3, 8:30"The American Time Use Survey asks thousands of American residents to recall every minute of a day." I enjoy the graph animation when switching between different groups.PermalinkCommentsvia:swannman graph visualization information graphic nytimes infographics demographics statistics

very small array

2009 Jul 12, 3:16Blog of various entertaining graphs and visualizations. Lovely site design too.PermalinkCommentshumor blog art visualization graph statistics information chart design

Digg the Blog - Blog Archive - Much Ado About IE6

2009 Jul 10, 9:43"This goes directly to why most folks use IE6: they don't have a choice. Three out of four IE6 users on Digg said they can't upgrade due to some technical or workplace reason."PermalinkCommentsie digg ie6 statistics web development browser technical

CAN PEOPLE DISTINGUISH PATE FROM DOG FOOD? - AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WINE ECONOMISTS

2009 Jul 6, 2:06"Considering the similarity of its ingredients, canned dog food could be a suitable and inexpensive substitute for pate or processed blended meat products such as Spam or liverwurst... Although 72% of subjects ranked the dog food as the worst of the five samples in terms of taste... subjects were not better than random at correctly identifying the dog food."PermalinkCommentshumor science statistics food culture research study paper

Common Web Server software comparison report

2009 Jul 1, 2:24Stats on HTTP servers and HTTP server response headers. "Current statistics are based on a sample of 84604 probed servers, gathered in the last 386 days."PermalinkCommentshttp statistics server internet http-header via:mnot technical

Setting Up AWStats

2009 Jun 26, 5:44A person with nearlyfreespeech.net hosting their web content recalls how they setup awstatsPermalinkCommentsawstats statistics nearlyfreespeech.net linux howto tutorial technical

308 - The Pop Vs Soda Map - Strange Maps

2009 May 31, 8:29"When on a hot summer's day you buy a carbonated beverage to quench your thirst, how do you order it? Do you ask for a soda, a pop or something else? That question lay at the basis of an article in the Journal of English Linguistics (Soda or Pop?, #24, 1996) and of a map, showing the regional variation in American English of the names given to that type of drink."PermalinkCommentsmap language visualization statistics english culture soda coke for:hellosarah

LDC Catalog - Web 1T 5-gram Version 1

2009 Mar 16, 4:22"This data set, contributed by Google Inc., contains English word n-grams and their observed frequency counts. The length of the n-grams ranges from unigrams (single words) to five-grams. We expect this data will be useful for statistical language modeling, e.g., for machine translation or speech recognition, as well as for other uses." 6 DVDs for only $150 with licensing restri... ok nm.PermalinkCommentslanguage google statistics database text

Dopplr Blog - Blog Archive - Dopplr presents the Personal Annual Report 2008: freshly generated for you, and Barack Obama…

2009 Jan 15, 4:57Lovely travel visualization: "We've generated what we call the Personal Annual Report for all our users. It's a unique-to-you PDF of data, visualisations and factoids about your travel in 2008, that we're delivering over the next week via email to every Dopplr user who travelled in 2008. To give you an example, we thought we'd show you the Personal Annual Report of someone who's had a very busy 2008 - President Elect Barack Obama."PermalinkCommentsvia:mattb visualization blog dopplr obama travel statistics map

YouTube - Hans Rosling: No more boring data: TEDTalks

2008 Dec 22, 11:05Hans Rosling gives a great presenttation on world health and economy and statistics visualization.PermalinkCommentsvideo ted statistics economics visualization youtube via:swannman

Xbox Achievements for Everyday Life

2008 Sep 16, 7:54

I just upgraded to the Zune 3.0 software which includes games and purchasing music on the Zune via WiFi and once again I'm thrilled that the new firmware is available for old Zunes like mine. Rooting around looking at the new features I noticed Zune Badges for the first time. They're like Xbox Achievements, for example I have a Pixies Silver Artist Power Listener award for listening to the Pixies over 1000 times. I know its ridiculous but I like it, and now I want achievements for everything.

Achievements everywhere would require more developments in self-tracking. Self-trackers, folks who keep statistics on exactly when and what they eat, when and how much they exercise, anything one may track about one's self, were the topic of a Kevin Kelly Quantified Self blog post (also check out Cory Doctorow's SF short story The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away featuring a colony of self-trackers). For someone like me with a medium length attention span the data collection needs to be completely automatic or I will lose interest and stop collecting within a week. For instance, Nike iPod shoes that keep track of how many steps the wearer takes. I'll also need software to analyze, display, and share this data on a website like Mycrocosm. I don't want to have to spend extreme amounts of time to create something as wonderful as the Feltron Report (check out his statistic on how many daily measurements he takes for the report). Once we have the data we can give out achievements for everything!

Achievements for Everyday Life
Carnivore
Eat at least ten different kinds of animals.
Make Friends
Meet at least 10% of the residents in your home town.
Globetrotter
Visit a city in every country.
You're Old
Survive at least 80 years of life.

Of course none of the above is practical yet, but how about Delicious achievements based on the public Delicious feeds? That should be doable...

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Feltron Eight

2008 Sep 16, 4:25I'd seen the previous year's Feltron Annual Report but not the rest of the portfolio. Great stuff.PermalinkCommentsblog art visualization statistics data portfolio design

mycrocosm

2008 Sep 16, 2:44Update via the web, email, or your phone, stats on day to day activities. For example send 'lunch time' to create a new time dataset named lunch and then send 'lunch' when you eat lunch and it will note all the times you ate lunch. I was tempted to use this to see a graph of when I add delicious posts but it doesn't support importing old data. Don't think I'll use it but it uses OpenID perfectly.PermalinkCommentsblog statistics openid social graph visualization tool

Half-Life 2: Episode Two Stats

2007 Nov 28, 2:09Valve shows off their cool visualizations of stats they generated from folks playing HL2E2 including heat maps of player deaths by level.PermalinkCommentsvisualization statistics hl2 game games valve development

Many Eyes: Income and Sales Taxes in the United States

2007 Nov 13, 3:09Visualization of income and sales taxes in the US.PermalinkCommentsvisualization statistics tax income-tax sales-tax graph map

Many Eyes : mefi chat: Popular URLs

2007 Nov 8, 11:38A Many Eyes visualization of URIs listed in an IRC chat.PermalinkCommentsstatistics visualization graph uri url popular ibm many-eyes

Many Eyes : sequelguy's page

2007 Nov 7, 5:19My Many Eyes account page. Adding this to delicious so that I don't lose track of it. Associated IBMID: dave@deletethis.netPermalinkCommentsproldfile many-eyes statistics visualization me

i18n: languages, countries and character sets

2007 Nov 7, 4:28Out of date W3C document containing stats on frequency of use of various charsets in HTML pages (in 1997)PermalinkCommentscharset encoding i18n language reference w3c statistics

Charts And Graphs: Modern Solutions | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine

2007 Oct 24, 10:12Without realizing it this was the page I was looking for three weeks ago.PermalinkCommentsvia:kris.kowal web chart graph ajax .net flash programming visualization statistics reference
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