Tag: Statistics
Vizualize.me, LinkedIn Infographics
You know me and data visualisation, but here’s something cool, it’s a website that creates a visualisation of your Linked in profile, it’s an invite only Beta at the moment, but it looks promising. more info at vizualize.me you should follow me on Twitter
Continue ReadingFreaky!
What were the chances of that happening!! Some would say it’s a sign, “Double Rainbow, what does it all mean?” Others will tell me to do the lottery today, some won’t even notice and will have to have another look at the image above… as for me, oh it’s just coincidence, but freaky nonetheless! (although […]
Continue ReadingThe Blog Icon 45,000 Downloads and Counting!
Ever since I created the blog icon I’ve been pleasantly surprised by where I’ve discovered it’s been used and encouraged by the responses I’ve received from those that have downloaded it and are using it. In April this year web designer Mark Hesketh wrote a blog post about the blog icon… a couple of weeks ago […]
Continue ReadingRadiation Dose Chart
Just saw this infographic on the XKCD blog about radiation dosage, it’s fascinating… plus I never knew that about Banana phones, think I’ll stick with my iPhone for now! More info here at XKCD you should follow me on twitter here
Continue ReadingThe World’s Aging Population
You may have worked out by now that I’m a statistics and infographics junkie… so here is a brilliantly executed interactive infographic that highlights the predicted age by percentage of various nations… as you will see, Japan, South Korea and Italy will have a very different looking population by 2050, compared to today by Fathom […]
Continue Reading2010 in review
I doubt you’ve missed me, but I’ve spent the last month backpacking around Cambodia (I shall blog about that soon) I received an email from WordPress a few days ago summarizing my blog for 2010 (below), but upon further investigation what I found interesting was that my page impressions remained the same even when I […]
Continue ReadingIs The Times Paywall Paying Off?
Just how good are the Times and the Sunday Times online figures? Here’s what’s on offer Online access at £1 for a single day or £2 for a week, £10 for a month using the iPad app, if you’re a weekly paper subscriber you get online access for free. Going by the figures released, 100k users are […]
Continue ReadingDid You Know, Shift Happens
As I’m a bit of a closet statistics junkie & as these videos have been bouncing around the web for the past 2-3 years, I thought I’d compile a post with some of the best. Did You Know? 3.0 (Official Video) -2009 Edition Did You Know 4.0 Did You Know 4.0 (Convergence) The Social Media […]
Continue ReadingAssociated Media vs Social Media
I don’t think the term “Social Media” is applicable anymore, fair enough it evolved from the early online community sites, but the term now encompasses virtually all manner of web 2.0, blogs, data aggregation services etc, most of which have nothing to do with being social, so it’s much more than a way to connect […]
Continue ReadingThe Social Media Revolution Fad
As I’ve re-quoted before “Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital“ Aaron Levenstein This video makes compelling reading/watching, but read between the lines, there’s more to this than meets the eye, major changes are unfolding in the social media environment, information/data/ID aggregation is becoming the new hot […]
Continue ReadingMillenial Marketing
I’ll admit that I don’t look at my blog stats very often (probably a good thing!), but when I reviewed my incoming links this morning one in particular stood out. It was from a site named Millenial Marketing by Carol Philips. So I hopped over there to see why I got the click throughs. Carol […]
Continue ReadingTime for Facebook to Face the Facts
Nick Burcher added a post on his blog about Facebook Usage Statistics for 2008 which made me think about something I mentioned a few weeks ago, as I noticed within Facebook’s top 21 only India & Hong Kong appear for the whole of Asia! Where’s China, Japan, Indonesia etc? Nick’s stats are interesting, but they’re […]
Continue ReadingTo reach 180 million people…
Radio took 40yrs TV took 14yrs Internet took 4yrs Facebook 4yrs (140million so far) (I wonder how long it will take me to get 180million people following me on twitter!?!) here’s some other useful figures I’ve found
Continue ReadingBikini Statistics
“Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital” Aaron Levenstein here’s some amusing quotes on statistics
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