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  1. theatlantic: And (another!) literary map of the United States. [Literary Gift Company]

    theatlantic:

    And (another!) literary map of the United States. [Literary Gift Company]

  • Lovely winter


  • Wikipedia density map

    rubodewig:

    Density map of georeferred articles in Wikipedia.


  • What happens every 60 seconds on the Internet

    analyticisms:

    Amazing stats in a pretty near infographic.  We’re closing 2011 with an analytical bang!

    (Source: linkedin.com)


  • Christmas gifts


    theeconomist:

    Daily chart: Christmas gifts. Today’s chart shows a general correlation between Christmas spending and wealth. The Dutch spend surprisingly little on their gifts; lightly-taxed Luxemborgers, by contrast, are exceedingly generous outliers.


  • Corporations and global control

    Stefania Vitali, James B. Glattfelder, and Stefano Battiston of Systems Design ETH Zurich, Switzerland identified in their research project corporations with the most global influence. The published paper and related tableau visualization can be found here.

    By having a look at the NACE descriptions the instant insight is that most of them are in Finance Intermediation. In this study it would be interesting to have a look at shareholder groups. Another interesting question is, how coporations control other companies and how structured such corporations are acting to execute control.


  • Global Banking Brands

    published in 2009, but still interesting.


  • How to estimate your social media Return on Investment

    analyticisms:

    Pretty good step-by-step illustrated guide to calculating social media ROI.

  • Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space

    szamitogepesnyelveszet:

    Tom Heath, Talis
    Christian Bizer , Freie Universität Berlin

    The first book in the Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web: Theory and Technology

    The html version is free!!!!

    This book gives an overview of the principles of Linked Data as well as the Web of Data that has emerged through the application of these principles. The book discusses patterns for publishing Linked Data, describes deployed Linked Data applications and examines their architecture.

    (Source: bit.ly, via szamitogepesnyelveszet-deactiva)


  • Top 10 analytics tools for social media

    analyticisms:

    The usual suspects are listed in this review of social media analytics tools: Sysomos, Radian6, Lithium (formerly ScoutLabs).  For free (or close to free) tools, the list is a little more cutting edge: Beevolve, Research.ly, Social Mention.  Buyers beware though: you get what you pay for with the “free” tools, something that the article does not really get across very well.