Tag Archives: statistics

Freebase Parallax

Freebase Parallax – when Freebase first came out as a sort of open version of Google Base, I doubted if it would come to fill that role. Today Freebase has tons of data, and is really well designed and managed. … Continue reading

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Kirix Strata: Access and Manipulate Data from the Web

Kirix Strata: Access and Manipulate Data from the Web – this is quite cool, and it’s great to see a lot of data/stats/visualization stuff coming to the web these days. For their specific app though, it seems like it would … Continue reading

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Canadian Election Analysis: Urban vs Rural

Talking about the urban-vs-rural divide in Canada and the US with my roommate yesterday; today I realized I could actually demonstrate it. I scraped data from two websites: CBC and Elections Canada, since the latter doesn’t yet have election results. … Continue reading

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Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics

Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics – excellent stats from Google on HTML usage. There are so many times that I have wanted this. I have, however, made use somewhat more basic stats on RSS from Syndic8.

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