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The Joy of Statistics

Hans Rosling’s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport’s commentator’s style to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before – using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of ‘The Joy of Stats’ he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers – in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine.

Its a joy to match someone talk about their area of expertise with such enthusiasm and vigour. More information about this programme after the jump: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wgq0l

Online vs Offline Sales Stastics

Permuto have released sales stats for online vs ‘offline’ sales with data from the US census Bureau.

The categories where online sales typically outsell in store purchases is the entertainment industry with books, magazines and dvds coming out on top as online purchases.

Quite suprisingly, pharmaceutical products where bought on the high street by nearly 10-1..Something tells me the email advertising for certain products aren’t as successful as the spammers hope they would be!

The other main industries where ecommerce sales triumphed over the high street where:

Clothing, Electronics, Furniture, Music/Videos, Office Supplies and Toys and Games.

To see the full article Click here

igoo stats now detects mobile devices

We’ve been detecting most mobile phone models for a few months now, and we just rolled out an update which makes this information available to all of our website statistics customers. We are also providing a general hardware report, showing the top phone models used to access your web site. These are grouped by operating system family, as you can see in the second screenshot below.

This data has also been added to the “Platforms” dashboard module (renamed from “Computer”), and has been added to the iPhone mobile interface as well.

Enjoy!

did you know 3.0

some highlights…

By 2013, a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computational capabilities of the human brain

Predictions are that by 2049, a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species

What an exciting and terrifying time to be alive

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