Crowd wisdom is a great resource to know more about your health issues. While it should never replace professional advice, it never hurts to learn from the experiences of other people. CureTogether is a health research website that can help you diagnose a medical condition or find an effective treatment using statistics inputted by other [...]
Google Trends and Yahoo! Buzz are great websites to see what’s popular on the web right now. The only thing better than those websites is a tool that would combine Google Trends, Yahoo! Buzz and Twitter Trends, all in one place. Trends Buzz is a neat tool that does exactly that. Updated every 5 minutes, [...]
Are you interested in finding out the top video rentals in your city? Check out NY Times Video Rental Maps, a Google Maps mashup that displays Netflix rentals for twelve major US cities. In addition, you can also view these cities’ rental patterns for the top 100 titles that were frequently rented in Netflix in [...]
FuelCharts is a handy app that lets you monitor your energy usage online and helps you find out just how much energy does a house use. It lets you track, chart, and set up reminders for all of your home energy needs. Having this information will allow you to understand where your energy budget is [...]
WorldClock is an online clock that along with the time shows real time statistical data of the world. The info includes things like world population, birth, death, divorce, abortion, HIV, cancer incidence… etc. You can view real time stats for one year, month, week and day. The stats presented on the site are averages of [...]
Global Stat Counter (originating for its parent company “˜Stat Counter’) is a web app which keeps track of the global trends when it comes to web technology and the internet. The homepage consists of a huge trend graph which plots statistics from the previous few months. The data is based on a monthly pageviews (5 [...]
At first glance, PingTest might look like any other broadband speed test service out there. However, it isn’t one of those. It doesn’t check the speed of your connection. Instead it checks the overall quality of the connection that determines how well it can stream videos, play music and online games. You may call it [...]
ChartsBin is a nice web resource which hosts colorful and interactive charts created from different demographic data sets sourced through various research reports. Most of the charts are really interesting, here’s some examples: Worldwide Driving Orientation by Country. Major Religions of the World Ranked by Number of Adherents. All Nobel Prize Winners by Country. The [...]
Google Flu Trends uses “aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity” in a certain country. Basically, this app consists of an interactive map that responds to your cursor as shown in the screenshot. When you place your cursor over some country you’ll get an indication of the flu intensity in that country from “˜Low’ [...]
BreathingEarth is a real-time simulation tool that shows stats like CO2 emissions, birth and death rates, and CO2 emitted per person. The stats are given both for each country and worldwide. The data for stats comes from reputable sources like CIA World Factbook and United Nations Statistics Division. To view stats for any country, just [...]
DataMasher is an interesting website which lets citizens visualize and play with the data sets released by US government everyday. The data, which is usually sourced from data.gov, contains stats like poverty rates, unemployment rates, obesity in the US and much more. Users can combine these data sets and create nice looking mashups which contain [...]
Google Internet Stats is a service recently launched by Google and I have to say it’s pretty neat. It aggregates internet stats and facts across various sectors like technology, consumer trends, media consumption and media landscape in a simple interface. The data is sourced from a plethora of online and offline vendors which includes BusinessWeek, [...]
ChartGo gives you the ability to create bar graphs, excel graphs, line graphs, area graphs and pie charts. Very useful web app to do your graphing & charting online. You can either create a custom graph or choose one from sample graphs and edit them according to your needs. First, paste the data in the [...]
About:me is a new Firefox add-on that lets you view your past browsing history and download activity in a way that makes sense. Unlike default browsing history feature, About:me presents browsing history on an easy to grasp graphs from where you can easuly see the websites you visit most including the individual pages visited most [...]
KmlFactBook is a unique site which lets you load data sets from CIA Factbook and WRI Earthtrends into Google Maps and create cool presentations from them. You can view facts such as population of various countries, their GDP, immigration rate and a lot more on Google Maps and on Google Earth. If you would like [...]
NextBigSound is a site, which as they mention, provides actionable intelligence for the music industry by tracking the behavior of music buffs online. It tracks the number of plays, views, fans, comments, mentions, and other key metrics for 486,602 artists across major web properties like Facebook, MySpace, Last.fm, Twitter, and more. Music fans can subscribe [...]
TrendCounter provides a number of free site counter widgets. The counters show the number of visitors has received and are really easy to embed. In addition, each counter can be quickly customized to match the look and feel of the website. No registration required to get the counter widget. The counter starts counting visitors as [...]
ProProfsPolls is an online service for easily creating online polls and getting feedback from visitors worldwide. You can then view the results on a pie chart, check geographical distribution of recent poll takers and filter votes by country. Additionally you can search and browse polls created by other users, sort them by category, rate polls, [...]
If all the numbers and percentages you hear in the financial news about government spending, consumer debt, deficits etc., doesn’t make much sense to you, now you can better grasp this information at VisualEconomics.com. It makes complicated economic and financial data easy to digest and compare through accessible charts and graphs. Just browse through charts [...]
ManyEyes is a web resource where you can visualize statistics and interesting facts such as “Fertility rates in different US states”, “Shakespeare favorite words” or “Alcohol consumption worldwide” on charts. All charts are interactive and allow you filter information, highlight different areas, zoom in/out and more. Chart data comes from numbers and statistics uploaded by users. [...]