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World carbon emissions, by country

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Datablog Full figures, for every country in the world
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US emissions, compared to the world’s

Roll over lines to get the data. How bad are US carbon emissions? These [...]

A New View of Data.Gov

A New View of Data.Gov (from Google Public Policy Blog)
Friday, July 10, 2009 | 3:09 PM
On May 21, the Obama administration launched Data.gov, a web site that provides access to raw data from federal government agencies. Access to this raw data is useful, but to unleash the power of the data, you need tools for [...]

Real-time Search

In the age of microblogging search engines have to be very, very quick in indexing the continuous stream of information. The search engine Collecta indexes blogs, blog comments, microblogs like Twitter, Jaiku and also fotos in Flickr.

In order to find out more about search engines beyond Google see the article of  Ryan Singel in WIRED [...]

Blog about Stats on twitter

Microblogging (like twitter) provides short messages of a person or institution.
Blog about Stats uses twitter as complementary tool, providing hints and links on what’s new, interesting, strange in the field of  disseminating statistics: This is ‘Blog Stats’ Hints‘. It’s also possible to follow the microblogs of other people and institutions.
The newest short messages are shown [...]

20 Visualizations to Understand Crime

20 Visualizations to Understand Crime
POSTED BY NATHAN / JUN 23, 2009
There’s a lot of crime data. For almost every reported crime, there’s a paper or digital record of it somewhere, which means hundreds of thousands of data points – number of thefts, break-ins, assaults, and homicides as well as where and when the incidents occurred.
With all this [...]

“Hooray! The Second Derivative of the Unemployment Rate Improved!”

Nate Silver,  statistician,  is ranked to be among the 100 most influential persons in the world by Times.
He has a blog at http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ which is based very much on information search and statistics not only in U.S. but also in other countries. This is an example from U.S. with focus on the economic recession:
5.08.2009

Hooray! The Second Derivative [...]

Statistics Sweden (SCB) on Twitter

Since a couple of weeks Statistics Sweden is using Twitter for communicating statistics.  This is how it looks.  Sofar only the Swedish press releases are included.

3 years

Blog about Stats started three years ago.
Total views: 42,059, 166 posts, one per week.

Thanks for having contributed to the development of this blog!
Stats after two years

“Depth Reporting”

From MARK SCHAVER, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, UNITED STATES,  The Courier-Journal’s computer-assisted reporting director:
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Interactive public data from Google

You can now type “unemployment rate Kentucky” or “population indiana” in the Google search box and get an interactive chart that allows you to do comparisons with other states. Says Google:

… we have been working on creating a new service that make lots [...]

Blogging and Being Blogged

To write blogs or blog posts is one side of the reality. The other one is being  blogged. Out there in the blogosphere, the universe of blogs and bloggers, there are people writing about your activities or about your institution.
Specialised search engines like technorati or Google Blog Search (see also: blogsearch) help to get knowledge [...]

2 Years

Two years ago Blog about Stats started. Every week a new post, nearly every week a comment and 18,000 visits.
Thanks to all who have contributed to this blog!

Gapminder invites to “Graphs Community”

Gapminder launches a community for visualising statistics by Trendalyzer and Google Motion Chart. Interested organisations who want to share their international data are invited. More information at the Gapminder website and in their new Gapminder Charts Development Blog. Have also a look at this nice example created in Motion Chart with Google Spreadsheet.

Code of Blogging ;)

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be virtual

An interesting link concerning Web 2.0  on an interesting blog: be virtual  (in French only).
One of the main interests of this blog is to study the possibilities of a virtual museum. How can museums go online and become museums for surfers?  How to present the hidden treasures of a museum on the Web?
Can we statisticians learn from the solutions curators of virtual museums found?

Good news from Google for searching statistics

Yesterday, Google was launching the Google Custom Search Engine, a new way to bring tailored search to websites and blogs.
Google  engineers have found a way to open up the Google search platform to let anyone build their own search engine, without needing a Ph.D. in computer science. In just minutes anyone can use the Google search platform [...]

Blogs – are there applications for statistical agencies?

Hi everyone – I am Jessica Gardner from the UNECE Statistical Division, and I am very pleased to join in this blog. At the upcoming UNECE Work Session on Dissemination and Communication in Washington (12-14 September 2006), I will present a paper on ‘Blogs – are there applications for statistical agencies?’. When researching this topic, [...]