What’s New@OECD July 2009, revised (some extracts)

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3 years

Blog about Stats started three years ago.
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Stats after two years

21 years ago, the Knowledge Navigator …

… and we still dream of  some visions showed in it.
In 1987 Apple published a video presenting a visionary tool which could assist us some day in our daily work and ..  in our data search: The Knowledge Navigator. Have a look at this quite amusing video.

Predicting Future Statistics

This video gives information about the past, our own generation and assumes the future statistics of the world and our own possible capabilities. The predections are mind boggling.

More than just football statistics

EURO 2008 knocks at the door. Statistics Switzerland has created a game which presents some indicators for all the participating football teams:
StatistigOal: the game where football teams up with statistics

Go and play

2 Years

Two years ago Blog about Stats started. Every week a new post, nearly every week a comment and 18,000 visits.
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History of statistics at YouTube!

Hint #2

Google.com analyses your IP address and redirects you to your local google search site (google.fr, google.ch etc.). This may be useful for normal searches. But sometimes you want to go to google.com and look for news and products which are accessible only there.
Wanting to do so you have to type in google.com/ncr. ncr stands [...]

Google buys Trendalyzer from Gapminder

Google has bought the software Trendalyzer from Gapminder Foundation (Sweden). Trendalyzer is a software product for animating statistics. Professor Hans Rosling, Karolinska Institute, is the chairman of Gapminder, and professor Bo Sundgren, Statistics Sweden and Mid Sweden University, and Ms. Gun-Britt Andersson, former Swedish ambassador to the OECD, are two members of the board. Google’s intention is to [...]