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And it's all laid out as a Periodic Table.  Try hovering the pointer around a bit.

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Cancer rates: see how countries compare worldwide

UK cancer rates have dropped, but how do we compare to countries worldwide?

- from The Guardian's DataBlog

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Cancer Survivorship in the Age of YouTube and Social Media: A Narrative Analysis

http://www.jmir.org/2011/1/e7/

Is this the beginning of the end for the iPhone?

SMARTPHONE PLATFORM MARKET SHARE.

Latest stats from comScore in the US show that for the first time, Android has overtaken Apple in the smartphone market. Now just RIM (Blackberry) stands in its way and one more quarter should see it take pride of place as the the smartphone platform of choice in the US. This is a trend that is likely to replicate itself over here with a 6-12 month lag.

See second table on this page: http://comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2011/1/comScore_Reports_November_2010_U.S._Mobile_Subscriber_Market_Share

The World’s Facebook Relationships Visualized [PIC]

Cool?
Geeky?
Gimmicky?
I don't know, but where, oh where has China gone ;-)?

Social Media Click throughs peak at beginning of week

Quite an interesting piece about click through rates on social media ads by day of week - do while users are on Facebook all week, Monday- Wednesday are the best for CTRs. But I do wonder how much that is effected by what day of the week campaigns go live on?

http://vitrue.com/blog/2009/09/08/vitrue-srm-findings-social-click-through-rates-for-facebook-are-highest-on-tuesdays/

The Joy of Stats

I wouldn't normally go anywhere near BBC 4, but as I was channel-hopping last night, the 'Joy of Stats' caught my eye. And no, I didn't just mis-read the title...