TAG: statistics
Steven Johnson breaks down which authors use the longest sentences.Combatants include: Malcolm Gladwell, Steven Pinker, Seth Godin, Christopher Hitchens, Michel Foucault and Frederic Jameson.
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"comScore Widget Metrix" Service Launched to Track Widget Usage Across the Web
"Photo-related Widgets Dominate the Top 10; Slide Ranks #1 with Worldwide Reach of 117 Million People"
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Who Participates And What People Are Doing Online
BusinessWeek chart with some data about who is doing what.
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Thirty Six Youth Facts in One Hundred and fifty Nine Seconds
"The Threebillion Project put together a nice little video for MTV Asia's Music Matters conference in Hong Kong last week. The video displays thirty six youth facts in one hundred and fifty nine seconds."
Tags: asia youth statistics technology research demographics
Download 2007 Digital Fact Pack
52-Page Data Guide to the Digital Marketing World
Tags: advertising marketing statistics business demographics internet research
"Instead of relying purely on viral marketing or mass media marketing alone, big-seed marketing combines the two approaches so that a large initial audience spreads the marketing message to a secondary audience." Read the full paper.
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Enter a few words or phrases and see how often they appear on twitter.
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Gladwell: "Why problems like homelessness may be easier to solve than to manage."
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A video giving the inside scoop on internet porn statistics. NSFW
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Cookie-Based Counting Overstates Size of Web Site Audiences
"Frequent Cookie Deletion by 3 out of 10 U.S. Internet Users Leads to Overstatements in Audience Sizes by a Factor as High as 2.5"
Tags: research internet statistics
The American consumer is twice as likely to carry his mobile phone as he is to carry cash
"For those aged 18-34, the average is four times as likely."
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Beyond Skin Deep: The real top dating sites
Some numbers and rankings of online dating sites.
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"A consultancy called the Attention Company has just complete a fascinating survey of what it calls "Out There" people---think Mark Cuban and other promoters of radical transparency."
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Spam surge drives net crime spree
"'92.6% of all e-mail messages are spam,' said Dan Druker, spokesman for Postini. 'That's the highest it's ever been.'"
Tags: email spam crime statistics
"In summary, there's no easy solution. There's a big opportunity (though very tough job) for someone to come up with a meaningful metric that weighs a bunch of factors."
Tags: attention internet trend statistics business advertising
A very deep look at the top 100 videos on YouTube. Some interesting numbers, especially that the top 100% only make up 2% of views. That's a long long tail.
Tags: youtube video statistics longtail marketing
"Every pixel in the illustration represents one person alive on Earth. The first one is you. The rest are everyone else."
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I Like Bill Simmons, Really I Do
Wages of Wins takes on Bill Simmons.
Tags: basketball sports statistics
A breakdown of the NBA Finals from the Wages of Wins people. Choice quote: "Final lesson: Role players matter. In each game players other than the stars made a difference – for better or worse."
Tags: basketball statistics
Myth and Measurement after Game Three of the NBA Finals
"What are the myths (some of which I just made up) – and corresponding measurements (which I didn't just make up) – from these first three contests?"
Tags: sports basketball statistics
The N.B.A.'s Secret Superstars
What the non-scorers do matters, and in fact, it is those players who might ultimately decide who gets to be crowned NBA champions.
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Does Baseball Need a Minimum Payroll?
"In essence, the Royals do not appear to be maximizing wins given their constraints, but rather, maximizing profits. Fans of the Royals, though, might not appreciate this objective. "
Tags: baseball sports statistics business economics
"And that is the tragedy of Kevin Garnett. Year after year he is the most productive player in the league. And year after year he plays with many players who are not only not average, but quite a bit below average."
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25 Things I Learned on Google Trends
"To give you a sense of its tremendous power for tapping into the world psyche, here are 25 things I learned on Google Trends. Someone should start a blog on this kind of stuff."
Tags: trend google search statistics
An analysis of 8468 reviews on Pitchforkmedia.com
Stastical breakdown of Pitchfork reviews in search of tendencies.
Tags: reviews music statistics
"The point is that we need to be very careful in the way we interpret statistics purporting to show that one kind of dog, or one kind of drug, or one kind of anything, is more dangerous than other things in its class."
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Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics
Google: "In December 2005 we did an analysis of a sample of slightly over a billion documents, extracting information about popular class names, elements, attributes, and related metadata. The results we found are available below."
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What do flag colors really mean? Using flags as visual tools for statistics.
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Google launches a free analytics program with lots of goodies.
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"On the occasion of today's gruesome statistics on the continuing fall of newspapers, here's an updated look at mainstream entertainment and media in decline"
Tags: business statistics research economics longtail media posted
America Internet Usage and Population Statistics
"Internet User Statistics and Population Stats for 51 countries and regions"
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Google refused to let TextDrive renew their Urchin license, so a bunch of passionate, smart, geeks are gonna go ahead and build their own stats program.
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"delineate is a community driven visitor tracking service that tells you who your visitors are and what they want from the web."
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"The web is listening to what you have to say. Admiring your design. Talking about your product. Mint helps you identify where the most interest is being generated and over what."
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