MetaFilter posts tagged with statistics and trends

Does your son's name end with the letter "n"?

srs — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:01:35 -0800

Andrew Gelman recently posted this strange trend in baby naming originally posted on Laura Wattenberg's blog in 2007. Why do so many boys' names now end with the letter "n"?

Wikirank

peacay — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:39:26 -0800

Wikirank is an analytical tool that measures the popularity of trending topics on wikipedia. You can compare up to four topics and generate nifty embeddable graphs.

waxpancake — Fri, 06 Jul 2001 08:29:49 -0800

Google Zeitgeist charts the popularity of certain search queries on Google (via Slashdot). Of course, it'd be more interesting to track your own keywords, and you can. I stumbled across this partially hidden Google feature last night. (More inside...)

faithnomore — Tue, 24 Oct 2000 23:59:23 -0800

Too Much Information? Heavy information overload: the world's total yearly production of print, film, optical, and magnetic content would require roughly 1.5 billion gigabytes of storage. This is the equivalent of 250 megabytes per person for each man, woman, and child on earth.