#analysis

https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a...

This is a sobering analysis of how "the poverty line" is calculated, and what it means. It's focuse...

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/123929-just-h...

YouPorn apparently accounts for around 2% of the web's traffic (by volume) per day. Personally, I'm...

http://thinkupapp.com/

Need to grab this and have a play with it when time permits.

http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern

Python module for datamining and data visualisation. Just in case/

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2011/horosco...

Meta analysis for horoscopes, via Andrew. I may spend some time writing a horoscope generator at so...

http://binarybonsai.com/2010/09/27/chewie-stats/

Some data on the behaviour of users who were referred by to a site, split by the site that referred...

http://al3x.net/2010/09/15/last-thing-about-twitte...

A clear and sensible statement about the need to decentralise services like Twitter, Facebook, and r...

http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/06/16/thoughts-on-...

Godo, clear explanation of it, that hits the key point: while I get the idea of making sure people o...

http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?...

Starts of with some talk of Dunbar's number as it applies to social networks, then gets into the muc...

http://www.clapclap.org/2007/04/hallelujah.html

A short cultural history of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. If, like most people, you think it's always...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/074327698...

I'm not letting myself buy this now, because I have a too-read pile that's still massive, but I want...