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From AdAge: According to ComScore, which will start publishing data on YouTube’s channel partners tomorrow, 40% of YouTube’s audience clicked over in July to watch music videos, more than any other category. Vevo accounted for 38% of YouTube’s entire monthly viewers, easily the most-watched channel within the video-sharing site, and second-place Warner Music accounted for […]
Direct to Complete Package From the Associated Press. A set of interactive charts/maps re: U.S. economy. World S&P Ratings Map Monthly Year-Over-Year Changes in the Major Stock Market Indexes of 3o Countries S&P Weekly Closes Since 1970 A Look at U.S. Gross Domestic Product and Economic Recessions in the Past Three Decades GDP Explained First […]
Direct to “World Debt Comparison: The Global Debt Clock” (via The Economist) Data Available (2004-2012): Public Debt Per Person Total Public Debt Total Annual Debt Change Public Debt as a % of GDP Data (Back to 2000) Provided by the Economist Intelligence Unit Side-by-Side country comparisons also available. Hat Tip/Thanks: Visual Loop […]
The 2011 update was recently published by the World Population Bureau. Direct to 2011 Data Sheet (15 Pages; PDF) From a Summary: Global population will reach 7 billion later in 2011, just 12 years after reaching 6 billion in 1999. Today’s world population is double the population in 1967. But while the overall growth rate […]
Pet Statistics Sixty-two percent of U.S. households, or about 72.9 million families, own a pet, according to the 2011-2012 National Pet Owners Survey conducted by the American Pet Products Association (APPA). This is up from 56 percent of U.S. households in 1988, the first year the survey was conducted. Includes charts: NUMBER OF U.S. HOUSEHOLDS […]
From the Office For National Statistics: Oliver retained the top spot this year, with Jack still the second most popular baby name. Charlie rose two places to number five, William climbed up one to number seven and George re-entered the top 10 at number nine, up from eleven last year. James fell one place to […]
From The Guardian’s Data Blog: On 9 July the Republic of South Sudan becomes the earth’s newest country – instantly making the world’s atlases completely out of date. So here’s your new guide to the globe to download and explore. Just click ‘play’ and use Prezi’s pan and zoom buttons by mousing over the right […]
With the final Space Shuttle flight (STS-135) scheduled for tomorrow, here are a few reference resources from NASA and other sources that might be of interest. NASA Press Kit (172 pages; PDF) Facts, Stats, Overview, and Much More Commemorative Press Kit Cover (PDF) Space Shuttle Weather Criteria (PDF) Mission Summary (PDF) Launch Countdown Milestones and […]
Infographic by Shanghai Web Designers We like to share infographics around here but prefer to limit what we pass along to those where source info is provided. In this case, we’re going to make an exception. More about that in a moment. Shanghai Web Design has compiled an infographic providing a look at some of […]
From a PayScale Announcement: PayScale [has released] its Technology Company Salary and Job Satisfaction Report. Using PayScale.com’s extensive database, the company examined the characteristics of the following large/well-known tech companies (excluding retail workers): Amazon, Apple, Dell, Facebook, Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel and Microsoft. These characteristics include: Job Details: common jobs, typical pay, typical pay premium […]