A new study by Nielsen reveals where people are using their iPads, and it’s even more evidence that tablets are natural “second screen” devices in front of TV.
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Global mobile statistics 2011: all quality mobile marketing research, mobile Web stats, subscribers, ad revenue, usage, trends…
March 2011: The essential compendium of need-to-know statistics. Beware of media hype and mobile myth – put your mobile strategy on a sound footing with the latest research from credible independent experts. Global mobile subscribers, handset sales, mobile Web usage, mobile apps, mobile ad spend, top mobile operators and mobile financial services.
LATEST UPDATE (March, 2010): Adds: forecasts for smartphone operating share. Android booms as Nokia dumps Symbian.
UPDATE (February, 2011): Reorganizes categories and adds: 1) mobile phone and smartphone sales figures for 2010 - Nokia still dominant in both, but other vendors are gradually eating into its lead; 2) top three mobile phone brands in US, Japan, Germany, UK, France, Spain, Italy; plus smartphone penetration 3) when profits will run out for mobile operators; 4) How mobile subscribers use their phones, plus how the mobile app didn’t kill the mobile Web; 5) payment by phone in Japan; 6) eBay’s $2 billion in m-commerce; 7) 200 million mobile users of Facebook; 8) mobile apps - downloads, average prices and failure rates.
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Have you wondered how many registered Facebook users is for example in London, New York or Sydney? Well, now you can easily find out in our cities list!
From the first data that we have gathered so far, these are the most Facebook populated cities in the world:
Nearly 80% of children between the ages of 0 and 5 use the Internet on at least a weekly basis in the United States, according to a report released Monday from education non-profit organizations Joan Ganz Cooney Center and Sesame Workshop.
The report, which was assembled using data from seven recent studies, indicates that young children are increasingly consuming all types of digital media, in many cases consuming more than one type at once.
Television use dwarfs internet use in both the number of children who surf the web and the amount of time they spend on it. The analysis found that during the week, most children spend at least three hours a day watching television, and that television use among preschoolers is the highest it has been in the past eight years. Of the time that children spend on all types of media, television accounts for a whopping 47%.
Today, Google has opened up the tools on its Public Data Explorer, so that you can use them to chart any old data set you might have laying around. "If you're a student or a journalist or a teacher, you can upload your data and get the same visualizations that we have for our own product," Ben Yolken, Google's product manager for the Public Data Explorer, tells Co.Design.
The tools were first rolled out a year ago, after the company bought up the Gapminder Trendalizer, a bubble-chart data-viz technology invented by Dr. Hans Rosling, the infographics guru/health researcher/acclaimed TED genius.
[Dr. Rosling showing off the Gapminder Trendalyzer, upon which Google's Public Data Exporer is based]
Thus, on the PDE site right now, you can see all manner of amazing time-based data animations, such as the relationship between fertility and life expectancy in the last 50 years; 20 years of U.S unemployment data; and even STD transmission in the last 15 years.
[Dr Rosling show how rich the tools are]
Now, to use all these nifty charts, you just have to put your data into a special format developed by Google, which is adapted to each of these visualizations. Afterward, you can share that data with anyone you want as a Google Doc.
More about this programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wgq0l
Hans Rosling's famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport's commentator's style to reveal the story of the world's past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before - using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of 'The Joy of Stats' he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers - in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine.
