Power of Data Visualization

There are still notable differences by generation in online activities, but the dominance of the Millennial generation that Pew Research Center documented in their first “Generations” report in 2009 has slipped in many activities.

via www.pewinternet.org

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Some 192m migrants 3% of the world population sent remittances totalling $316 billion to developing countries last year, according to the World Bank. The cost of sending remittances is negatively correlated with the number of migrants and service-providers in a country; the more competition, the lower the cost. this chart shows, for each country, which is the most expensive country to send $200 to.

via www.economist.com

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Sysomos is the leading provider of social media monitoring and analytics technology release of a new report taking a look at how people are using Twitter, and it compares with a year ago. they examined 1.02 billion tweets made by 20.3 million Twitter users. Some of the highlights of the report include:

• 44% of the total Twitter population joined between January 2009 and Aug 2010.
• 82% of Twitter users now provide a name, compared with 33% in 2009.
• 73% provide location information compared with 44% in 2009.
• 63.3% now provide a bio, compared with 31% in 2009.
• 45% of users submit a Web site address, compared with 22% in 2009.
• 80.6% have made fewer than 500 tweets.
• 22.5% have accounted for about 90% of all activity.
• Users with more than 100 friends has increased by three-fold to 21% since 2009.
• Justin Bieber is one of top two-word phrases and top name in user’s bios.
• An in-depth report at Twitter´s Growth 2010, compared with 2009

via sysomos.com

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This map is based on facebook friendship map. Black indicates connections between facebook friends and red areas indicate a population density of over 2 person per square mile.

via thorstengaetz

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On Sunday night, hackers posted online a trove of data from Gawker Media’s servers, including the usernames, email addresses and passwords of more than one million registered users. The passwords were originally encrypted, but 188,279 of them were decoded and made public as part of the hack. Using that dataset, The Wall Street Journal found the 50 most-popular Gawker Media passwords:

via blogs.wsj.com

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How much energy—whether electric, coal, nuclear, or otherwise—is required for a 100-watt lightbulb to run for a year, 24 hours a day?

via awesome.good.is

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Where do you think Apple’s iPhone is the most popular? Where does Nokia’s Symbian phones dominate? How is it going for Android in different parts of the world? What about Blackberry?

via royal.pingdom.com

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Measured a different way, the correlation between money and happiness is surprisingly strong

via www.economist.com

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Using county-level data, this is spatially and temporally interpolated presidential vote returns for the two major party candidates in each election from 1920-2008. The result illuminates the sometimes gradual, sometimes rapid change in the geographic basis of presidential partisanship.

via James B. Duke

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The United States may be the wealthiest country in the world, but all that money is far from distributed evenly. Poverty has a foothold in many U.S. cities.

via www.creditloan.com

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