Out of the blue

Interesting snippets from the world of data

The world mapped by the internet
The Oxford Internet Institute maps the world by number of internet users (see below), which makes for quite a distorted picture of the world.

Show me the money!
The Billion Dollar-o-Gram 2013 is an interactive tree-map representing the billions of Dollars in the Economy. Did you know the US accounts for 46% of the world’s global military investment? Which is 8.3 times the spend of China.

Extend your life while flying
Reduce the chances of dying in a plane crash, and what are the chances of this happening in reality? This info-graphic has all the answers for you.

Behind the box office
Did you know that trailers are 3 times more likely to convince people to see a movie than any other source? Read all about the interesting facts and figures about the movies.

Other bits
…and in other news we have launched our first publicly available app, and Spence won an IPA award for measuring social media – well done Spence!

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