Carnivals and article links for the week!
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CO2 and GDP
On May - 11 - 2010
CO2 emissions fell with the economy last year! CO2 emissions had fallen 3% in 2008, but multiple factors account for the fall last year. As the Ars Technica article states, the drop in emissions wasn’t completely attributable to the fall in GDP; some of the fall was due to trends that may continue in the next few years towards higher mileage cars and cleaner industries.
Read the rest of this entry »Carnivals and Links, Week of May 3
On May - 6 - 2010
Carnivals (2) and links (5) for the week!
Not: new articles when I get my new video card and monitor. Let’s go FedEx!
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On April - 27 - 2010
Articles and carnivals for the week!
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On April - 19 - 2010
Carnivals and Links for the Week!
Read the rest of this entry »Which Political Demographics Watch Which Sports?
On April - 3 - 2010
From the offbeat category comes this awesome data set found through the National Journal. Scarborough USA, a joint undertaking of market research companies Nielsen and Arbitron surveyed 218,000 people between August 2008 and September 2009 to try to figure out the political leanings of sports viewers. Surveyors tried to figure out both how viewers self-identified politically, and also their likelihood to vote. This data has been published, and here is is (on ManyEyes!) for you to play with!
Read the rest of this entry »Links and Carnivals, Week of March 22
On March - 26 - 2010
A collection of article links and carnivals for the week.
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On March - 21 - 2010
Carnivals and links for the week!
Read the rest of this entry »March Salary Madness
On March - 20 - 2010
Payscale is a great site you can use to compare your salary offers (or current salary) with other people in your field. It aggregates data anonymously, so you can know the going market rate for your job offer (or current position!). Anyway, Payscale has a large amount of data from various sources. One of the variables they track is the college that Payscale participants attended.
Read the rest of this entry »Happy Day After St. Patrick’s Day!
On March - 18 - 2010
Even though St. Patrick’s day is known as a drinking holiday, it doesn’t do too much to spur beer sales for home consumption. Nielsen, a market research company, tracks the purchase of beer for the two weeks leading up to holidays… and St. Patrick’s is the lowest. Of course, St. Patrick’s day also sees a higher number of people going out to restaurants and bars (only 16.7% went to a private St. Patrick’s party in 2009).
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