Deficiency of Vitamin D may even be a contributing factor for the greater prevalence of heart disease and diabetes. Check out this infographic by David McCandless, a London-based author, writer and designer.
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Measured a different way, the correlation between money and happiness is surprisingly strong
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Last week Chris McDowall informatics researcher from New Zealand hooked a computer up to the Twitter data firehose and, over the course of a day and a bit, grabbed every tweet that had geographic coordinates. I wrote a Python script to parse the 2GB of JSON files and used Matplotlib with the Basemap extension to animate 25 hours of data on a world map. The resulting animation plots over 530,000 tweets — and remember these are just tweets with geo-coordinates.
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UNAIDS, the UN body charged with combatting the AIDS epidemic, released its latest report. This carries good news. Though some 33m people are infected, the rate of new infections is falling—down from 3.1m a year a decade ago to 2.6m in 2009. Moreover, as the map shows, the figure is falling fastest in many of the most heavily infected countries. The reason is a combination of behavioural change, a big reduction in mother-to-child transmission at birth and through breast-feeding, and the roll-out of drug treatment for those already infected.
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No surprise here, compared to people born before 1975, people born after 1984 are twice as likely to breakup via the digital world, twice as likely to breakup over the phone and far less likely to decide to talk it out over coffee.
This information was collected using the publicly accessible, now defunct, polling app on Facebook, on which the question was asked to single members: "How did you end your last relationship"via Lee ByronNote: If you read this via Email or Feed-reader click Permalink below to download bigger image.
Here is a organized statistical look at the 10 most popular pets in the United States, and the estimated price range of each. Rank is based on an estimated percent of households owning each animal, not on animal population. (Cats outnumber dogs, but since cat owners often have two cats or more, cat households remain in second place.)
produced by New York Times illustrator Megan Jaegerman
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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.
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Yahoo! Clues lets you explore how people are using Yahoo! Search. When you enter a word or phrase in the "Search Term" field and click Discover, you’ll see information about that search term’s popularity over time, across demographic groups, and in different locations.
You can also enter a second search term in the "Compare With" field. This will show you information on both search terms, side by side.
This tool is similar to Google Insights for Search
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Everyone knows that it’s expensive to raise a kid. Just how expensive is it to raise a child?
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www.economist.com made an interactive map highlights selected data from the American Human Development Project for all 50 states. you can examine the overall level of health, wealth and education in different states.
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