What do you think are the odds that you will die during the next year?  Try to put a number to it — 1 in 100?  1 in 10,000?  Whatever it is, it will be twice as large 8 years from now.

This startling fact was first noticed by the British actuary Benjamin Gompertz in 1825 and is now called the “Gompertz Law of human mortality.”  Your probability of dying during a given year doubles every 8 years.  For me, a 25-year-old American, the probability of dying during the next year is a fairly miniscule 0.03% — about 1 in 3,000.  When I’m 33 it will be about 1 in 1,500, when I’m 42 it will be about 1 in 750, and so on.  By the time I reach age 100 (and I do plan on it) the probability of living to 101 will only be about 50%.  This is seriously fast growth — my mortality rate is increasing exponentially with age.

"Using this data, the Allies were able to create a mathematical model to determine the rate of German tank production, and estimated that, during the same summer 1940 to fall 1942 time period, the Germans produced 255 tanks per month -- a fraction of the 1,400 estimate produced by conventional intelligence.  (Want to see the math?  Click here.)  And it turns out, this method worked best: after the War, internal German data put the number at 256 tanks per month. "

Nice analysis of OK Cupid data on trends in photography equip, technique, and attractiveness. Also an example of a social bar that pops up at the bottom of the post.

Interesting info avail to dig into about Twitter "A collection of various datasets about the online phenomenon Twitter."

Browser market share infographic "reminiscent of the Firefox logo, ...freaky in the best possible way" says @bjepson

"Notes from my @musicandbits talk prep: Only 41% of Last.fm's incoming reqs / sec are to the website. The rest are API calls." Also see: http://twitter.com/flaneur/status/4972395334 "@julians API. Within that, the breakdown is 36% official Last.fm apps (web+desktop), 64% third-party calls"

sweet, an online version of the game

UPDATE:analysis is flawed, see http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/06/scaccobeber-analysis-of-iranian.html "Not so in the data from Iran: Only 62 percent of the pairs contain non-adjacent digits. This may not sound so different from 70 percent, but the probability that a fair election would produce a difference this large is less than 4.2 percent. And while our first test -- variation in last-digit frequencies -- suggests that Rezai's vote counts are the most irregular, the lack of non-adjacent digits is most striking in the results reported for Ahmadinejad. Each of these two tests provides strong evidence that the numbers released by Iran's Ministry of the Interior were manipulated. But taken together, they leave very little room for reasonable doubt. The probability that a fair election would produce both too few non-adjacent digits and the suspicious deviations in last-digit frequencies described earlier is less than .005. "

"If The New York Times ever strikes you as an abstruse glut of antediluvian perorations, if the newspaper’s profligacy of neologisms and shibboleths ever set off apoplectic paroxysms in you, if it all seems a bit recondite, here’s a reason to be sanguine: The Times has great data on the words that send readers in search of a dictionary."

Each time a user highlights or copies text or images from your site Tracer records the user action, and automatically adds a link back to the original content when it is pasted. Now, you can see what is being copied from your site and benefit from the additional traffic generated by each copy. Read more: "Tynt Tracer » About Tracer" - http://tracer.tynt.com/about#ixzz0FCsOl4SC&A

stats on sales of ann iphone app

"About a year ago the United Nations announced UNdata, a way to disseminate data stretched out across 22 United Nations databases through one central application. While UNdata houses 66 million records, it's tough to get a sense of what's going on without a visual representation. Progress is an effort to make this world data visible. More than anything though, it was a chance for me to mess around with some data."

can compare to two other usernames as well

Michael Lewis writes his moneyball for basketball

see when your content is pulled in via scripts and bookmarklets. clever!

nice example of how tools like DabbleDB are a glimpse of the future of analyzing data on the web.

"How people spend their discretionary income – the cash that goes to clothing, electronics, recreation, household goods, alcohol – depends a lot on where they live. People in Greece spend almost 13 times more money on clothing as they do on electronics. People living in Japan spend more on recreation than they do on clothing, electronics and household goods combined. Americans spend a lot of money on everything."

Ever wondered how your state stacks up compared with others on obesity rates, SAT scores, or number of recent army recruits? How does your congressional district fare compared to your neighbors on life expectancy, high school dropout rates, or earnings? Find out with our mapping tool, which allows you to create customized maps by state or congressional district.

Here you will find information about the US and World economy presented through graphs, charts and maps.

Infographic showing the global variation among most popular social networking services

clever: "analyze a user’s browsing history to estimate age and gender"

stats on the installed base of fonts by OS

every study which has shown “spreading” essentially makes a Monty-Hall-like error, by neglecting the fact that people’s choices aren’t random; that in fact their choices teach you something.

graph of how movies have fared at the box office, after adjusting for inflation.

just what proportion of these materials have we used up so far, and how much is there left to go round?

In less than five years, nearly half of all U.S. Internet users will visit at least one social networking site on a monthly basis, as will more than 80 percent of all teenagers

Enter your zip code to see US Census data and comparisons with neighboring zips.

world statistics

an interactive map of crimes in Oakland and a tool for understanding crime in cities.

a University of Chicago economist, looks at the stats on AIDS in Africa -- and comes up with a stunning conclusion: Everything we know about AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is wrong.

ludic fallacy (or "uncertainty of the nerd") is the "manifestation of the Platonic fallacy in the study of uncertainty; basing studies of chance on the narrow world of games and dice.

Three players enter a room and a red or blue hat is placed on each person's head. The color of each hat is determined by a coin toss, with the outcome of one coin toss having no effect on the others. Each person can see the other players' hats but not his

allows you to replay the actions of users to your site to understand where things break down.

set of images and stats on digital media, growth of the net, gaming, etc.

Swivel lets you explore data and share your insights with others. Swivel has data about politics, economics, weather, sports, business and more.

the concept of "GDP density", calculated by multiplying GDP per capita by the number of people per square kilometer. Basically GDP density is a measure of the total amount of economic activity that takes place at different spots on our globe.

The intent is to convey, not abstract rules for manipulating numbers, but what the numbers mean, and why the rules are what they are (and cannot possibly be anything else).

WHAT SMALLER ONLINE COMMUNITIES LACK in size they can often make up for in stronger engagement levels, according to new research from online community developer Communispace.

simple traffic tracking solution

visually analyze and understand the demography of the United States through the use of interactive maps and data reports

displays some examples of the Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics, with the view that the contrast may be useful, inform current practice, and provide some pointers to both historical and current work

Google TechTalks

a measure of inequality of a distribution

slideshow illustrating world inequalities

a free, fast, and easy way to add a web counter to your web page. Not only does it display the number of visitors to your web site, it also keeps statistics on the number of visits each hour and each day.

[According to Wales] over 50% of all the edits are done by just .7% of the users ... 524 people. ... And in fact the most active 2%, which is 1400 people, have done 73.4% of all the edits." (and whether that is true)

AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically.

Pop vs Soda

a list of the top fifty countries containing the largest measured percentage of people who identify as atheist, agnostic, or non-believer in God

A phenomenological law also called the first digit law, first digit phenomenon, or leading digit phenomenon.

This led the creative team to the concept “Meet the world” and to the idea of using flags of different nations as vehicles to transmit it. In each case, the colours that appear on various national flags were used to symbolise a social or political iss

a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD.