Showing posts with label Data. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Data. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

A book worth thinking and reading

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Here's Tyler Cowen's review ; When doing the statistics, one key issue is how to measure violence. Pinker often favors “per capit...
Saturday, September 17, 2011

Chart of the Day- STDs in US

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Thursday, August 4, 2011

The Economic Geography of a Data Centre Location

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Why did Facebook locate its new data centre in central Oregon? Babbage tries to explain. The reason, the centre's boss Ken Patchett ex...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Assorted websites

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Please Rob Me [don't post on Facebook that your houses are empty for the weeken] Graphy Your Inbox
Thursday, April 2, 2009

Happy Marriage fact of the Day

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a marriage is worth almost £80,000 ($110,000) a year ; this reflects partly the fact that marriage makes people happy, but also the fact tha...
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Saturday, March 7, 2009

Young Americans and Britons take the lead

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in cocaine-use !
Friday, March 6, 2009

Pornography Fact of the Day

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subscriptions to online pornography sites are “more prevalent in states where surveys indicate conservative positions on religion, gender ro...
Thursday, September 11, 2008

The Market for Medical Tourism

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New figures from Deloitte LLP, an international consulting firm, show how popular the practice has become with an estimated 750,000 American...
Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Stacy Keibler Correction Coefficient

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Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why It Matters One of the best Google Talks- Bill Tancer is somebody to look out for.
Saturday, August 16, 2008

Assorted Olympics

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China 2008 olympic medal tally by population Olympics at Sports-Reference.com The Glory of Just Showing Up
Thursday, August 14, 2008

Poverty Measurement

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a sensible way to measure poverty?
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Incredible America

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The census calculates that by 2042, Americans who identify themselves as Hispanic, black, Asian, American Indian, Native Hawaiian and Pacif...
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Monday, August 11, 2008

Explainer of the Day

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Gasoline prices

Assorted

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A Tale of Two Charts More Reasons Not To Take The Candidates' Budget Proposals Too Seriously Make Diplomacy, Not War Anne-Marie Slaughte...
Sunday, August 10, 2008

Turkey Fact of the Day

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Turkey's gender gap in years of schooling (of women relative to men) has also been consistently lower than other Muslim countries. via I...
Thursday, August 7, 2008

Cool link of the Day

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Britain from Above
Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Stolen Money Fact of the Day

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According to one estimate, corrupt money flowing abroad from developing countries is now $40 billion per year which amounts to 40% of annual...
Sunday, August 3, 2008

US Fact of the Day

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How Are We Doing?

Shipping Inflation

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The cost of shipping a 40-foot container from Shanghai to the United States has risen to $8,000, compared with $3,000 early in the decade , ...
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Saturday, August 2, 2008

Suicide Bombing Fact of the Day

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More than 85 percent of female suicide terrorists since 1981 committed their attacks on behalf of secular organizations; many grew up in Chr...