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Differences in consumption per person are much less dramatic than differences in income (in the US): “If we look at consumption per person, the difference … gulfstream/2395

Measuring poverty: in the US, the poverty line for the last 40 years has been set at three times a (very minimal) food budget. This approach has many … gulfstream/2045

Live geographic traffic stats for the BBC news. This is pretty sweet, despite not being very usable. (The colours that represent different traffic levels … gulfstream/2137

Article by Bjorn Lomborg summarising his book, The Skeptical Environmentalist. The book argues that: (1) the threat to the environment isn't as … gulfstream/669

Delivering bad news: “There were several ways that I could answer Peter’s question. I could give the bald statistics—that more … gulfstream/947

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Charts | Worth a thousand words | Economist.com

National Statistics Online - Living in Britain 2004

The Slow Tail: Time Lag Between Visiting and Buying (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

CIA - The World Factbook - Guide to Country Profiles

Google Analytics

Weed - Like mint, but less green, if you know what I mean

Odds of Dying - NSC

Home - Doing Business - The World Bank Group

Visitors - fast web log analyzer

StatCVS - Generate statistcal HTML reports from your CVS repository logs

Stevey's Blog Rants: Math For Programmers

Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before

American Petrocracy

Stranger Fruit: Go USA! We're #2 .... kind of ...

Corunet. El blog » The definitive heatmap
details the architecture of the heatmap system

Myths about the developing world (Amazing graphics) (TEDTalks, Hans Rosling) - Google Video

NationMaster - World Statistics, Country Comparisons

Tasty Data Goodies - Swivel

Matplotlib / pylab - matlab style python plotting (plots, graphs, charts)

nice clean javascript for collecting web stats

Introducing 3D Live Stats
whizzy real-time spinning world showing hits to a website

Scribd - [ebook][e-book] 16 things it takes most of us 50 years to learn
page not really any good (see snopes), but interesting stats on bottom rhs

Tasty Data Goodies - Swivel

Many Eyes

The Web Analytics Graph Collection eSnips Folder

'Beautiful Evidence' Author Edward Tufte and the Triumph of Good Design -- New York Magazine

clickdensity - Evaluate & Improve your Website: Heat Maps & More

RobotReplay - The Next Generation of Web Analytics

WordPress.com Stats « Extend › Plugins

The R Project for Statistical Computing

SIMILE | Timeplot

The Two-Envelope Paradox: A Complete Analysis?

Data Visualization: Modern Approaches | Graphics
examples of different "modern" visualization techniques

Simpson's paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dangerous Intersection » Blog Archive » A football field covered with M&M’s says don’t waste your money playing the lottery

glTail.rb - realtime logfile visualization

Designing Visualizations for Time-Based Data by Max Kiesler