It has published a list of the living standards of various countries. The ranking is based on health indicators, political environment, economic dinamism, education and quality of life. Finland leads this classification as the country in the world with best life level. More information here.

With marketers engaging with consumers across multiple channels, messages must be tailored to resonate with audiences on email and social sites. But research suggests a look at simple demographics does not give a clear indication of how audiences differ. Engagement in these channels is personal and depends more on psychographic characteristics. According to ExactTarget’s “Subscribers, [...]

We, experts and professionals of Statistics are usually attacked with insinuations about our work. Beyond the famous phrase “if we have two chickens, I eat two and you none“, Statistics says that, on average, we eat one each. But people endlessly misunderstood this branch of science offers near-endless possibilities of development and implementation. A cross-science [...]

The use of social networks and Web 2.0 increases by 82% in one year According to Nielsen figures for December, the time spent on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter increased 82% during 2009. Facebook was the number one social network with 206.9 million unique visitors in that month, equivalent to 67% of the [...]

The cloud of volcanic ash drifting across all Europe is continuing to make much of the continent a no-fly zone past week. It is still unclear how long that disruption will last, but the longer flights are grounded, the greater the impact will be on businesses and the wider economy. AIRLINES The most direct casualty [...]

Gather Estudios is pleased to announce the beginning of what we hope would be an excellent and longstanding collaboration with the finnish company Semat Group. From year 2002, Semat Group has been 100% specialized in project management, assisting Finnish industrial companies. Their customers are large and medium-sized Finnish and international companies and they are specialized [...]

This is mainly an experimentation with soft bodies using toxi’s verlet springs. The data refers to the evolution of Great Britain, Spain, Portugal and France, the top 4 maritime empires of the XIX and XX centuries by extent. The visual emphasis is on their decline. More on that project mondeguinho.com/master/visual-experimentations/visualizing-empires Visualizing empires decline from Pedro [...]

For the first time in Latin America will study the market segment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender population covering the gay, bisexual and transgendered Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay, to meet their interests and styles life and consumption. Gustavo Noguera, Director of Gnetwork360, told that “the gay community is a segment that is not [...]

It is an online service that will guide us, from a first selected word for us through all the Google search option, following the analysis of the most popular searches via Google Suggest. Google Suggest analyzes the characters that we typing and offers appropriate recommendations in real time. What do you suggest we can analyze [...]

Tim Berners-Lee called for “raw data now” — for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He leads the World Wide Web Consortium, [...]