Interesting Facts and Data

Google insights on when and how you search TV shows

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:42:36 -0500

Interesting insights from Google into how TV viewers search for shows and what that says about TV watching (highlights are mine):

Cable series demonstrate significantly higher levels of search intensity in comparison to broadcast shows. This is likely due to cable’s edgier programming, younger audience, and frequent re-run airings.
The season premiere and finale of a show see large spikes in search intensity, and present ideal opportunities to reach viewers online. YouTube searches tend to occur at the beginning of a season, mobile searches surge toward the end, and desktop search maintains more consistent volume with less extreme swings.
Audiences have increasingly been searching for full episodes, an indication of the growing availability of full-length TV content online.

[Interactive] The Top 1 Percent: What Jobs Do They Have?

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:24:28 -0500

[Interactive] The Top 1 Percent: What Jobs Do They Have?:

A fantastic interactive infographic by the New York Times that lets you explore the different jobs, and how many of the people with those jobs are in the 1%.

In countries like Mexico and Indonesia, people skip the internet connection at home and just buy smartphones

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:53:24 -0500

While people in the US go online at home first and then buy mobile phones and smartphones in particular, this AdAge article portrays a few companies where a lot of people own smartphones, but not a lot of people are online:

see the full infographic here.

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:03:57 -0500

see the full infographic here.

Photo

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:16:18 -0500

There are more than half a million homeless families in the US

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:47:44 -0400

@stoweboydStowe Boydthe number of homeless families that have turned to shelters jumped by 20%, to 567,334 in 2010 from 473,541 in 2007 sto.ly/vADJki

Happy Halloween! This is how Americans spend $7 billion this...

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:44:49 -0400

Happy Halloween!

This is how Americans spend $7 billion this Halloween on costumes, decoration and candy.

As photographed from the WSJ.

[Infographic] China's One Child Policy

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:59:00 -0400

[Infographic] China's One Child Policy:

Most shocking statistic in that infographic for me: 25% of Chinese women of reproductive age have had an abortion. Wow!

Population Density per country

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:29:48 -0400

Population Density per country:

Highest density: Macau: 74,000 people per square mile

India: 954 people per square mile

USA: 84 people per square mile

Australia: 7 people per square mile

Lowest density: Greenland: 0.4 people per square mile

Someone shared this on my Facebook feed, so I unfortunately...

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:08:58 -0400

Someone shared this on my Facebook feed, so I unfortunately don’t have any more background on this. Interesting message though!

Talent Traffic between Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, LinkedIn and Apple

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:57:29 -0400

Thank you for the submission!

[Data Visualization] Distance to the next McDonald's

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:04:31 -0400

[Data Visualization] Distance to the next McDonald's

The Top 8 Languages in the world - by populations size. Would...

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:11:35 -0400

The Top 8 Languages in the world - by populations size. Would you have known that more people speak Bengali, the language spoken in Pakistan, than Russian? Or that the small island of Japan has a top 8 language?

Data came from here.

Census Data: Americans are having fewer kids than 10 years ago

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:56:50 -0400

In a recent article, AdAge reported on recent Census 2010 data and points out that there are fewer “traditional” families (2 parents and children) than ten years ago. There is an increase in the number of single mom households, and there is an increase in married couple households, but the number of couple households with children of any age has decreased.

"Surveys in Japan have suggested that women who work full-time then go home and spend another 30..."

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:06:29 -0400

“Surveys in Japan have suggested that women who work full-time then go home and spend another 30 hours a week doing the housework. Their husbands contribute an unprincely three hours of effort.”

- Asian women seem to bear an unusually large share of the burden of marriage. That may be one reason why they are marrying later, and less, than in the past. (via theeconomist)

Greek Yogurt Sales Grew 2500% during Recession

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:27:45 -0400

According to this article in the Atlantic, the Greek Yogurt market grew from 60 million in 2005 to 1.5 billion in 2011. That makes Greek Yogurt account for nearly 20% of all yogurt sales.

The writers offer several theories why that is, one being that yogurt has turned into conspicuous consumption: Greek yogurt is an affordable luxury in a recession, and is eaten ostentatiously by women in the office.

crookedindifference: Belief in evolution and income per capita

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:20:31 -0400

crookedindifference:

Belief in evolution and income per capita

The 2010 Census found more persons of Puerto Rican origin living in the 50 states and D.C. than in Puerto Rico.

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:32:55 -0400

The Hispanic population of Puerto Rican origin in the 50 states and D.C. increased from 3.4 million in 2000 to 4.6 million in 2010. It now surpasses Puerto Rico’s population. Nearly a third of Hispanics of Puerto Rican origin in the 50 states and D.C. were born in Puerto Rico, according an analysis of 2009 American Community Survey data by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center.

[Infographic] Deadliest Pandemics in History

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:32:19 -0400

[Infographic] Deadliest Pandemics in History:

We’re living in wonderful times (relatively seen).

Is 3D dead? I don’t usually read USA Today, but happened...

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:26:08 -0400

Is 3D dead?

I don’t usually read USA Today, but happened to get one in a hotel last week. I thought these stats were interesting: 70% of tickets for the movie “Alice in Wonderland” were 3D, but only 43% of the tickets for the new Harry Potter Movie were 3D one year later.

The article further read that prices decreased from an average $18 to $13.50, but that shouldn’t be surprising as the technology is developed further.