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Facebook mentions over time of different candidates. Also shows how this is not representative sample of voters

anyqs: The article says "more women are entering college, which in turn is changing the relative popularity of disciplines," but doesn't say exactly what percentage of degrees awarded in each discipline go to women. I'm wondering what that percentage is. It would have been nice to have seen the number of degrees awarded to women and men in each discipline visualized with the number of degrees awarded.

anyqs: It is true that more students are earning science degrees than they did twenty years ago, but it is also true that more students are earning degrees, period. Note the growth in arts, music, and business degrees awarded. It would be good to know the percentage of the total increase in degrees awarded for each discipline.

Nuclear Explosions since 1945

anyqs It is interesting to note the relationship between the locations of the nuclear explosions and the population densities around those regions. Furthermore, it seems that there is also a relationship between the frequency of nuclear detonations and how long ago they were detonated (i.e. there were several nuclear detonations 50 years ago, but just 2 in the last 10 years). Lastly, it is interesting to see that the UK and France conducted the majority of their nuclear explosions in their colonies during the 1960s and 1970s, away from their population.

For decades, the World Database of Happiness has tracked how happy people are.

anyqs Immediately when I see statistics on human emotions, I find myself asking, rather skeptically, how do they know how happy someone is? If I say that I am the highest level of happiness today, i.e. a 4, and then tomorrow I win the lottery, then I'm still stuck saying I'm a 4. I wonder what the statistics would have looked like if they gave their populations a greater range to choose from than 1 to 4? Perhaps 1 to 100? Would the people have rated themselves happier or less happy? Does forcing the sampling population into discrete values with a resolution of only four values affect how they respond? Further, the graph mentions that some countries weren't even surveyed some years... Perhaps they weren't surveyed during the worst years when everyone would have been very unhappy? \ The creators also gave "suggestions" as to why the counties got happier or sadder. For example, they believe that France became sadder as a whole country because we renamed Freedom Fries back to French Fries.. Really??? Is this website meant to give statistics or just to be funny? Consider the title, its even a joke. anyqs

The illustration may look less than scientific, but the concept and the presentation are really cool.

I'm not much of a gamer but I found this interesting. Note the inferred correlations between juvenile crime and videogame usage in the lower charts.

anyqs How did they calculate the percentage? As far as I know there is no accurate way to determine exactly the percentage the market share of browser. So, I want to know their standards on their way of counting. Besides that, what does the empty space represent? Moreover, do they include all kinds of devices (laptop, phones, TVs, desktop, ...etc) or just laptops? And if so, how did they distinguish between them in their study? :)

What happened to AOL? What did they do wrong???

anyqs I would like to see the more information on how they collected this data and what it applies to. As James said, mobile browsers are distinguishable from others (from something called the User Agent in the browser), but I could go into my Opera browser on my Android and change the User Agent to 'desktop' and trick the website into thinking that a desktop viewed it. I would imagine that if w3 were to pull from their website, it would be heavily biased towards non-mobile browsers, as people would prefer to learn on a more comfortable screen.

I was planning on bookmarking just one of these, but this page has a list of seriously cool and diverse data visualizations ranging from interconnectivity of the web to the history of Great Britain.

anyqs In the munterbund visualization what do they use to connect the words to eachother?

Why gamers play MMOs

Tony Heath

anyqs When was the originating date for the number of total persons born data? Is it from the "beginning of time"? Also, how are abortions measured? Are these just registered, legal abortions, or an approximation of self-inflicted abortions?

This article approaches probability axiomatically. The scientists first estimated how many of the fragments of satellite would burn up on reentry based on their size. Then, for the components they expect survived the reentry, they determined the probability that they would hit any populated area and cause damage. They reasoned that since most of the planet's surface is water, there is a greater probability for the satellite debris to land in the ocean rather than on land.