Facebook has notched up 500 million users this week. The Guardian had data on where they all are, and a data analyst at Tableau, Ross Perez, put this into a great visualisation.
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This is a fabulous interactive infographic of all the Doctor Who monsters (not all of them are villains, really – the Ood, for example) since the first episode in 1963.
A good summary of where the Internet is right now, or rather, where it was at the end of 2009.
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.
Some very interesting stats on a Royal Pingdom post. Here’s a selection of those that particularly interest me:
Email
90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
247 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
1.4 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
100 million – New email users since the year [...]
19 January, 2010 | By Sarah Cooper
UK cinema admissions are at their highest level since 2002, according to figures released by the UK Film Council today (January 19).
Admissions in 2009 rose to 173.5m from 164.2m for the previous year and just behind the 2002 record of 175.9m. The increase was driven by the success of [...]
According to a ComRes poll conducted on behalf of Theos, ’70% of people believe in the human soul, 55% believe in heaven and 53% believe in life after death.’ Here is yet another example of the inconsistency of beliefs: belief in heaven is higher than belief in life after death. 5% of those who claim [...]