Power of Data Visualization

Sysomos is the leading provider of social media monitoring and analytics technology release of a new report taking a look at how people are using Twitter, and it compares with a year ago. they examined 1.02 billion tweets made by 20.3 million Twitter users. Some of the highlights of the report include:

• 44% of the total Twitter population joined between January 2009 and Aug 2010.
• 82% of Twitter users now provide a name, compared with 33% in 2009.
• 73% provide location information compared with 44% in 2009.
• 63.3% now provide a bio, compared with 31% in 2009.
• 45% of users submit a Web site address, compared with 22% in 2009.
• 80.6% have made fewer than 500 tweets.
• 22.5% have accounted for about 90% of all activity.
• Users with more than 100 friends has increased by three-fold to 21% since 2009.
• Justin Bieber is one of top two-word phrases and top name in user’s bios.
• An in-depth report at Twitter´s Growth 2010, compared with 2009

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Need some help? Take a look at the flowchart. Mint.com did their best to explore the key questions that surround choosing gifts and hope it at least helps your decision-making process a bit easier. If anything, at least remember the message on the very top. Can’t afford it? Then don’t buy it. Happy holidays!

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Google launched Ngram Viewer, an experiment to let lay users and researchers search and study the waxing and waning of phrase instances over 5.2 million books published between 1500 and 2008 that Google has indexed in its cloud computing system. There's a whole community of Ngram collection going on over at Ngrams.Tumblr.com.

When you’re in your 20s, saving for retirement is possibly the most boring subject on the planet. Start young, and you could retire a millionaire by saving just several thousand dollars a year. Start late in life, and you could wave hello to the senior special at Denny’s some 50 years down the road. In this infographic, mint.com've mapped out the significance of starting to save for retirement as early as possible, along with a simple how-to guide on the main retirement-saving vehicles at your disposal.

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The book, which stands more than three feet by two feet (91cm x 61cm) and includes 435 hand-coloured illustrations of birds from North America in life-size, reached $10.3m. The previous record for a book was another copy of Audubon's masterpiece, sold in 2000, which reached $10.2m in today's prices. Indeed, a list of the ten most-expensive books would include five copies of "The Birds of America".

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This map shows the result of one question about environment: Would you give part of your income for the environment? - from the World Values Survey (WVS).

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Do regional boundaries defined by governments respect the more natural ways that people interact across space? Redrawing the map of Great Britain from a network of human interactions.

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This map is based on facebook friendship map. Black indicates connections between facebook friends and red areas indicate a population density of over 2 person per square mile.

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It’s simple, really: As long as we pour CO2; into the atmosphere faster than nature drains it out, the planet warms. And that extra carbon takes a long time to drain out of the tub.

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