FindTheData is an objective, reference-based comparison engine that allows you to find and sort through a growing number of databases that are fully sortable, filterable and comparable. We obtain our information from primary source, public domain databases—from governmental organizations to universities—and our data is constantly being expanded and updated.

The introduction of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in US Congress caused a wave of dissent, anger, and protest over the possible censorship and gatekeeping of the Internet. To bring needed attention to this law, a large number of sites took down access to their websites and replaced them with messages or warnings about the potential effect of SOPA. On January 18, 2012, these one of a kind pages provided an insight into crowdsourced protest and collective action. As a result of this and other work, SOPA lost support and faded. Archive Team has assembled a collection of WARC-format pages from that day

A more global and neutral analysis comes from the multilingual Wikimedia Foundation, which tracks traffic on the various versions of Wikipedia and associated sites. A traffic analysis for February 2012 shows Windows and the Mac still leading the way (73.8 percent and 8.48 percent) but Linux with a far more respectable 4.9 percent of the market, way above the 1 percent doldrums that Net Applications has kept it at.

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The good news is that, in the centuries since Hume, scientists have mostly managed to work around this mismatch as they've continued to discover new cause-and-effect relationships at a blistering pace. This success is largely a tribute to the power of statistical correlation, which has allowed researchers to pirouette around the problem of causation. Though scientists constantly remind themselves that mere correlation is not causation, if a correlation is clear and consistent, then they typically assume a cause has been found -- that there really is some invisible association between the measurements.

But here's the bad news: the reliance on correlations has entered an age of diminishing returns. At least two major factors contribute to this trend. First, all of the easy causes have been found, which means that scientists are now forced to search for ever-subtler correlations, mining that mountain of facts for the tiniest of associations. Is that a new cause? Or just a statistical mistake? The line is getting finer; science is getting harder. Second -- and this is the biggie -- searching for correlations is a terrible way of dealing with the primary subject of much modern research: those complex networks at the centre of life.

We get a lot of infographic pitches. Almost all of them suck. Why? Because while they may well be "information plus graphics," they often lack what designer Francesco Franchi calls "infographic thinking." This isn’t just "how to make some numbers and vector graphics look clever together." It’s a narrative language--it’s "representation plus interpretation to develop an idea," to quote Franchi.

A NASA-led science team has created an accurate, high-resolution map of the height of Earth's forests. The map will help scientists better understand the role forests play in climate change and how their heights influence wildlife habitats within them, while also helping them quantify the carbon stored in Earth's vegetation.

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