I get my stats anywhere I can find them. Â Here’s a source that I haven’t seen before – Pornhub Insights, showing all kinds of differences and similarities between Apple iOS and Google Android users.
Insightful!
Tag: statistics
Waze : Global Driver Satisfaction Index
Waze, the social networking for drivers, presents some analysis of global driver satisfaction. Â It’s not covering 100% of the globe, but it’s still interesting to look into differences between countries and cities. Â See if you can find anything surprising…
One billion people …
.. visited Facebook in a single day! I have a hard time wrapping my head around that. Â I remember the Web before Facebook existed. Â I remember when Facebook reached a total of billion accounts. Â And now, we have a billion active daily users. Wow!
Apart from everything else, the amount of engineering that went into creating the platform, growing the features, and keeping it up and running is beyond comprehension.
0 to about 11,000 employees in 11 years. Â Wow!
Cyprus has lowest crime rate in EU
In Cyprus runs the story covering some criminal statistics of European Union in general, and Cyprus in particular. Â There are some analysis to the numbers and some breakdown by type of crime and so on.
If you are visiting Cyprus on holiday, you can be reassured that Cyprus is the safest country in the EU – based on analysis of data from the EU’s statistical office, Eurostat.
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From the site, you can find out that there were 2.3 million crimes recorded in Spain in 2012 (the latest data), 4.4 million in the UK and just 8,000 crimes recorded in Cyprus in the same year.
The bit that caught my eye was the term “recorded crimes”.  As if decreasing the number of recordings is one of the ways to minimize crime rate…
Rank of top languages on GitHub.com over time
GitHub blog shares some trends in regards to programming languages, which includes both public and private repositories:
Interesting. Â I haven’t seen many Java and C# projects myself, but I’m in a very different bubble. Â PHP stays on #4 for years. Â VimL, the language in which most plugins for Vim editor are written, makes it to #10 in 2010, which suggests that there are way more plugins than I ever thought. Â The drop in Perl is also quite notable, but not very surprising.