This presentation pulls together the latest Pew Internet data about how teens use the internet, their cell phones, and other technology. It explores how the world of digital natives is different from their predecessors.
A senior analyst at Forrester Research is compiling usage stats for a bunch of SNSs.
This tool shows you how popular a Google search query is
in each U.S. state, giving a ranking like the one you
see in the left column. It then compares this ranking
with other ways of ranking states, like average income
or population density, using Spearman's rank
correlation.
This tutorial is designed to give the reader an understanding of Principal Components
Analysis (PCA). PCA is a useful statistical technique that has found application in
fields such as face recognition and image compression, and is a common technique for
finding patterns in data of high dimension.
Before getting to a description of PCA, this tutorial first introduces mathematical
concepts that wil
There are several major findings in this report. One is this: For help with a variety of common problems, more people turn to the internet than consult experts or family members to provide information and resources.
This guide is designed for educators who are beginning to learn how to use data for school improvement. It offers foundational information on types of data, strategies for analyzing and understanding data, and methods for determining how these efforts can influence goals and planning.
The following links point to a set of tutorials on many aspects of statistical data mining, including the foundations of probability, the foundations of statistical data analysis, and most of the classic machine learning and data mining algorithms.
These include classification algorithms such as decision trees, neural nets, Bayesian classifiers, Support Vector Machines and cased-based...
Levin, D., & Arafeh, S. (2002). The digital disconnect: The widening gap between Internet-savvy students and their schools (Pew Internet and American Life Project). Washington, DC: American Institutes for Research.
With Google Trends, you can compare the world's interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they've been searched on Google over time. Google Trends also shows how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and in which geographic regions people have searched for them most.
This is the actual survey data that concludes: "The survey reveals a nation whose book readers, on the whole, can hardly be called ravenous. The typical person claimed to have read four books in the last year -- half read more and half read fewer. Excluding those who hadn't read any, the usual number read was seven."