Statistics for a changing world: Google Public Data Explorer in Labs

As of today, Google is sharing a snapshot of some of the most popular public data search topics on Google. They’re also launching the Google Public Data Explorer, an experimental visualization tool in Google Labs.

Here’s the most popular data and statistics search topics:

1. School comparisons
2. Unemployment
3. Population
4. Sales tax
5. Salaries

and an interesting chart for my fellow colleagues:

This chart compares bi-annual gross minimum wages per month in Euro. This dataset was prepared by Google based on data downloaded from Eurostat - Last updated: March 6, 2010

Chart link (embedding didn’t workfor my blog, still investigating why)

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Internet 2009 in numbers

The people at Pingdom did some calculations and here’s what they got:

• 90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009 (81% spam)
• 234 million – The number of websites as of December 2009.
• 47 million – Added websites in 2009.
• 81.8 million – .COM domain names at the end of 2009.
• 1.73 billion – Internet users worldwide (September 2009).
• 18% – Increase in Internet users since the previous year.
• 418,029,796 – Internet users in Europe.
• 126 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
• 84% – Percent of social network sites with more women than men.
• 27.3 million – Number of tweets on Twitter per day (November, 2009)
• 1 billion – The total number of videos YouTube serves in one day

More interesting info here

2009 State of the Internet (Q3)

Akamai Technologies announced today the release of its 3rd Quarter, 2009 State of the Internet report available for download at www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet. Leveraging published reports and information gathered from its network, the Akamai report provides insight into key Internet statistics such as origin of attack traffic, network outages, and broadband connectivity levels across the globe.

Important observations (mentioning Romania too):

• Attack traffic originates from 207 unique countries around the world. Here’s the top 10:

• On a global basis, the average connection speed increased by approximately 18%, and more than 100 countries had average connection speeds under 1 Mbps. Romania ranks 4th in the top fastest countries!

• Overall, 35 countries around the world saw increased quarterly levels of high broadband connectivity, and 49 countries saw yearly growth. In contrast, 41 countries saw quarterly declines, while 27 countries saw levels of high broadband connectivity decline year-over-year.

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Google Internet Stats

Every planner’s dream!

Here’s some random useful stuff that i found on Google Internet Stats:

20 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.

YouTube, May 2009

Although men and women follow a similar number of Twitter users, men have 15% more followers than women.

HarvardBusiness.org, June 2009

There are 1.5 million business searches daily on YouTube, making it the second-most-visited destination for business searches, behind Google.

Google, Forbes, BtoB, June 2009, June 2009

According to a study done by OTX, 33% of young people (12 – 24 year olds) globally (UK, US, Germany, India and Japan) are contactable at all times, even in their sleep.

OTX Research, March 2009

Users are 1.5 times more attentive when browsing YouTube than when watching TV.

Motorola (with Mindshare) and GM, partnered with YouTube, December 2008

5% of all time online is spent on Facebook.

Comscore, April 2009