MORE 'STATISTICS' POSTS
From a U.S. Census E-Mail: [Data] files contain demographic, economic and governmental statistics from the Census Bureau and other federal agencies, presented for the purpose of multi-county comparisons or single county profiles. National- and state-level statistics are presented as well. The files cover topics such as agriculture, crime, education, health, retail trade and vital statistics. […]
New from the Team at Royal Pingdom! 900 million active users today and it will not be very long until the one billion user number is announced. What’s even more amazing is that more than half of the 900 million active users visit Facebook DAILY! Direct to Royal Pingdom Blog Post
Statistical Report: “The British Library – Transforming Stored Knowledge Into Smart Knowledge”
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|Direct to Full Text Report (7 pages; PDF) The British Library makes an essential contribution to the UK’s intellectual, social, economic and cultural life, underpinning key sectors of education and research. Here are a Few Examples of the Statistics Included in the Report: £4 million Value of digitising 4 million pages of historic newspapers in […]
Forecast: 80% of Tablet App Downloads Will Be from Games, Digital Publishing, Social Networking, and E-Commerce Categories in 2016
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Patrons and Users, Publishing, Resources
|From ABI Research: iPad and Android media tablet users have become and will remain avid app users over the next five years, averaging more than 31 downloads per year per media tablet. A new market intelligence study on emerging tablet applications found that 11 of the 13.7 billion app downloads forecasted for iPad and Android […]
From the team at the Priceonomics (online price guide database). Direct to Complete Blog Post Along with the rankings and analysis (Lexington, Ann Arbor, and Anchorage) top the list, you’ll also find: Kindle Popularity vs. Avg. Temperature of City Kindle Popularity vs. % of Population With College Education Kindle v. XBox (Sample Number of Units […]
OD shared a bit of data last week (we shared a few comments), today more numbers. Meredith Schwartz has details on The Digital Shift. From the Article: OverDrive released its first “Big Data” report at the London Book Fair, a snapshot of the library ebook platform’s March traffic. In that single month, more than 5 […]
The map shows prevalence of major illnesses by county. The dataset used to create the map also available as an XLS file. From the Article and Map via AdAge: As grim as it is to say this, for health-care marketers, knowing where people are sick is a useful data point. As part of the American […]
OverDrive Shares Some Network Usage Statistics With More to Come
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Reports, School Libraries
|The London Book Fair begins in a few days and OverDrive has announced that during the event they’ll be sharing the first of several “Big Data” reports that they’ll share with participating publishers and libraries. According the OverDrive, the reports will analyze, “billions of eBook impressions and other data collected from across its network of […]
From the U.S. Courts Web Site: Fiscal year 2011 was the busiest ever for the federal judiciary’s Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system, and this fiscal year continues that trend. In the first four months of FY 2012, the PACER Service Center responded to about 60,000 telephone calls and 15,000 emails. In addition, […]
From Simba Information (via TeleRead): Publishing forecast firm Simba Information has released the highly anticipated fourth edition of its flagship Trade E-Book Publishing report series and estimates 17% of U.S. adults have read at least one e-book in 2011, up from the 11% who did so in 2010. In keeping with the report’s tradition of […]