Google pushed an update to Analytics recently and changed the graphing feature just a little bit. It really drives me crazy, actually, for such a stupid thing.

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It used to be that if you owned a local paper, you just about had a license to print money. Not anymore.

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Recently, I quoted Harvard's Dr. Atul Gawande on the explosion in surgeries: "In 1996, Americans underwent some 60 million surgeries. In 2008, that number rose to 100 million. Does that mean that Americans are healthier?" he asked.

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The December Case Shiller data shows that the rate of decline in home prices is stabilizing at just under 20%. This doesn't sound like good news, but it is. Before house price declines can start decelerating, they have to stop accelerating, and it seems we're finally there.

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As of December 2, 20080: Milwaukee has 33.1" on the season...the total through this date last year was 24.3" Madison has 34.4" on the season...the total through this date last year was 25.1"

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William F. Buckley famously said he'd "rather be ruled by the first 500 people in the Boston phonebook than the faculty at Harvard University." There's surely something to that, though the worst president in American history was a Princeton man.

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A Soldier Died Today

It's that old problem again, the one about dying in vain.  We all die, most of us die in vain. By dying we do nothing but prove the inevitability of death, a fact so mundane that it doesn't need to be proven, so mundane we don't even need to be reminded.

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National Debt as % of GDP. see also: (Source) In 1981 the gross national debt, compared to the nation's annual income, reached its lowest point since 1931. Despite his claim to hate the debt, Reagan instituted unprecedented peacetime deficit spending.

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Theft or Laziness? The Kansas City Star's AXIS OF OSCAR.

Last week, Neil Gaiman linked to a weekly nymag.com feature, The Approval Matrix. See it here. [NYMAG.COM] The concept is a graphic which charts entertainment happenings along a x/y matrix spanning four categories: HIGHBROW LOWBROW BRILLIANT DESPICABLE

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Very interesting graph from the NYTimes depicting how American's spend their money.

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With so many websites to join, users must decide where to invest significant time in adding their same connections over and over. For developers, this means it is difficult to build successful web applications that hinge upon a critical mass of users for content and interaction.

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Want to Crunch Data for Your Newsvine Article? Use Swivel.

This could come in handy for those of you who are a bit more data driven in your articles. This site is called Swivel, and it does for data what Flickr does for photos. Log on, upload your data, and Swivel provides tools for the analyzing of that data.

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As can happen the sales data for September 2007 has been modified as more and more stores report their information. Because of this early reporting is often close but inaccurate.

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Approval ratings of the last 11 presidents.

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So, the U.S. has claimed a total of 1,651,000 (approximately — interesting how we don't bother to count their fatalities isn't it?). The U.S. has killed on average over 500 Iraqis for every one Westerner killed by Al Qaeda.

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From the chartist: This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.

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Swivel is an amazing new resource where one can explore all sorts of statistics. From their site: Swivel is a place where curious people explore data — all kinds of data.

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The State of the Newsvine

Nine months ago I performed a little analysis, to find out if the general feeling of a tech-centered Newsvine was correct. It turned out it was, but not as overwhelmingly as it seemed. Nine months later, has the situation changed?

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Today we released preview videos of RhNav - Rhizome Navigation, a software which provides interfaces based on user behaviour analysis. It is also able to visualise current website traffic in realtime as a graph. It works both as a browser-plugin and as a stand alone application.

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Social Network Visualisation for Newsvine ?

A flash tool, called FlickrGraph, for visualizing social networks on flickr has been around since August 2005. It has even won the FITC awards 2005 in the experimental category.

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On Polls: When 69% Matters and When it Doesn't

This article was inspired by Yar's most recent article which discusses the recent rise in Bush's approval ratings. (You can read that here.)

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RhNav - Rhizome Navigation

RhNav provides graphical navigation aids based on user behaviour analysis. Thanks to a hint from ChristianJeitler on netznetz.net about the wonderful "processing", I was able to stitch together a first working draft of RhNav with a three dimensional graph.

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Is Newsvine driven by Tech? Maybe not.

Some users raised the issue of a Newsvine too much focused on Tech related articles. Are they right? Let's see.

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