I meant to post this a long time ago, so I shall paste the e-mail I sent to the CREEM mailing list some time ago:

Hi guys,

I stumbled across www.swivel.com last night which claims to be “you tube
for data”, the idea is that you upload a lot of data sets to it and then they
have a cluster that “swivels” the data for you, then you can graph this data to
find interesting relationships.

For example “Global GDP vs. Yearly Average Global Temperature” is pretty
interesting.
swivel.com/graphs/show/1016984

Although having said that, “Global GDP vs. World of Warcraft subscribers” is a
little more esoteric.
swivel.com/graphs/show/1014616

Of course, the coolest thing is that there is all this data available for anyone
to use.

cheers
–dave

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I’m moving out of hall tomorrow so I really need to close all of my Firefox tabs at some point. Elle is in the shower so I’ll take this moment to do that…

First off Evan’s latest LJ post No warmth without her is his best yet. Secondly, if anyone is a daemon knitter and doesn’t know what to get me for Christmas, then a binary scarf would be awesome!

I had no less than five e-mails this week asking me how angry I am about the Reading University lecturer who divided by zero. I have to echo the comments on the Bad Science blog, it just sounds like the IEEE specification for not a number (NaN.)

Marginal Revolution has an interesting article about what would happen if Christmas didn’t happen from an economic point of view.

I finally found (via the Tube Portal on wikipedia) the geographic (as opposed to topological) map of the London Underground (big!)

On a slightly odd note (and mainly so I can find it again), how to tie a bow tie.

Finally, some wisdom from Mr McGeever:

(19:27:15) Sam McGeever: however, fact of the day
(19:27:43) Sam McGeever: the world 'boiling' in korean is the pleasingly onomatopeic 'pogol bogol pogol bogol'
(19:27:54) Sam McGeever: and if it's boiling over the brim, you say it really quickly :)

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It’s 5:30am, I’ve just finished my QM1 continuous assessment. I’m not sure why I’m blogging this…

Good night!

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