Tag: GRAPHS

Chitika, which runs an online advertising network utilized by companies such as Hearst Media, has posted some interesting graphs. After analyzing data from more than 100,000 sites in their network, Chitika has concluded that -- somehow -- visits from users running Windows 98 outnumber visits from Windows Phone 7 users by almost 2 to 1. WP7 is still pretty new of course, and Chitika does state ...

I only just covered this bad boy in last week's Firefox Friday -- and now there's a Chrome version! RescueTime advertises itself as a 'Productivity Meter' but really it's just a cool way of seeing how you spend your time on the Internet. All you have to do is install the extension and it'll do the rest. At any time you can click the menu button to see a quick breakdown of how distracted you ...

Man, I wish this chart illustrated my salary over the past five years. Sadly, however, it's AV-Test.org's look at malware in the wild. The actual number of unique samples doesn't necessarily mean all that much. So many of the nasties floating around the Internet are just mutations of other infections. Just look at the vast array of crud SmitFraudFix cleans up - it's a whole lot more than the ...

Here's something that was practically made to be reblogged on Tumblr: TumblrStats, which generates some slick pie charts of your Tumblr activity. How many reblogs versus original posts did you make? How much of your content was photo, video or text? TumblrStats will also tell you how frequently you post to Tumblr, including a number for your peak posts-per-day. Because of the quick and easy ...

Google seems to be rolling out improvements to Google Spreadsheets like there's no tomorrow. Or like there's no Microsoft Office tomorrow anyway. When you click the little chart icon in the Google Spreadsheets toolbar, you now get a whole slew of charts and other gadgets to choose from in addition to the pie, bar, and line charts that Google introduced a while back. The new gadget gallery ...

Swivel is a data, number crunching, graph oriented, chart mecca for those who are so inclined. The site was launched in December 2006 as the brainchild of two physics majors. Swivel has now reached an important milestone with its one millionth graph. Swivel was designed for users to share data so you can upload your own and have others explore your findings. If you are curious about say - ...

Oh, how I love free things. Especially free pretty things. And I'm the kind of person who things Flash charts and graphs are pretty, so I present amCharts and PHP/SWF Charts. amCharts is a relative newcomer that creates attractive Flash pie and donut charts based on data you put in a text file in either XML or CSV formats (which makes exporting from Excel easy). It's very configurable, allowing ...

Blogger and web designer Vitaly Friedman has put together a very handy list of nifty tools for drawing diagrams, charts and flow-charts. He identifies about 20 resources spanning free software, commercial software, web-based tools, and tutorials that will help you make pretty graphs, charts, and diagrams. Of course, I'm most interested in the free stuff, but if you use Illustrator or Excel, or are ...

Microsoft Excel's charts are powerful, but boy are they a pain to use, especially if you just want quick, simple bars alongside your data. Well, no more: The blog at Juice Analytics has some very cool tips for making instant bar charts from your data. All it takes is the REPT() function, which will repeat any bit of text as many times as you want, and the | symbol. It certainly doesn't sound ...

Earlier this week Yahoo! announced changes that would roll out soon to upgrade aspects of the Yahoo! Finance property. One of these changes, and probably the most significant for daily users, is the completely overhauled Stock Charts. When Google rolled out Google Finance property, most of the hubbub around their offering was the dynamic charts. These hadn't been seen before anywhere and had a ...

Alexaholic "blends Alexa traffic charts with a lightweight ajax-enhanced interface to satisfy hard-core Alexa traffic junkies." What's that mean? It means you can check out Alexa traffic charts with a lot less clutter and a much more responsive interface than you get at Alexa.com. It also has a JavaScript snippet that you can add to your web site to show live charts for any web site(s). ...