In his June 12, 2012 post titled, “The Rise of Chrome and the Fall of Internet Explorer“, Slate.com’s author, Matthew Yglesias took some data and made the following chart. This chart is supposed to show browser market share over time. Instead, it confused his readers to the level that, out of the 55 comments the …
On June 4th, Stephen Colbert started off his show by discussing a report by the Sunlight Foundation. The report showed that Congress is getting dumber. Ok, that’s not exactly what the report showed, it showed that the speech levels of Congress have been declining since 2005. The Sunlight Foundation’s analysis of Congressional speech included this …
I’m a big fan of the team at SAS that works on the SG (statistical graph) procedures. Their work enables others to tell richly detailed stories by leveraging SG procedures. The team is led by Sanjay Mantange. Just 3 days ago I attended a session at the SAS Global Forum (SASGF12) where Sanjay spoke about …
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This infographic details 4 key Tweeting Attributes of Twitter Legend, Guy Kawasaki. It also includes a statistical model to predict ReTweets.
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There are 208 charts in this dashboard of Unemployment in the U.S. Each one is loaded with information from the Bureau of Labor statistics. Check it out, you’re bound to learn something you didn’t know before you came here.
The long-term unemployed population continues to grow. In April 2010 nearly 200,000 Americans joined the 6.5MM Americans who’ve been jobless for more than 6 months.
