Do ugly people commit more crime? Yes, statistical...  ...a paper published in The Review of Economics and Statistics entitled Ugly Criminals [...]This takes us to the...

This chart from the utility company EPCOR contrasts water consumption in Edmonton, Alberta on two different days. February 27th is charted to show a normal day. February 28th was the day Canada won the Olympic gold medal...

Take a look at exactly who is using the Internet the most, how they are using it and how much the amount of usage is increasing. We can see that there are the same number of men and women who use the Internet. However,...

The authors of an article in Focus magazine, a BBC...  ...Focus magazine, a BBC publication, took a look at statistics in 35 countries to rank those nations according t...

The New York Times has an interactive graph that plots the jobless rate for different groups of Americans compared to the average for all those who are unemployed. Mouseover to find lines for different races, ages,...

According to a survey of accident claims by Churchill Car Insurance, computers aren't the only thing computer programmers engineers like to crash - they are also likely to crash their cars ....

Four statisticians at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University have published an article in the peer-reviewed journal Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress on the subject of zombie epidemiology. It's ent...

Christopher M. Danforth and Peter Sheridan Dodds, statisticians at the University of Vermont, analyzed song lyrics, blog posts, and speeches for certain emotional keywords in order to discern the collective moods of the...

Geographers from Kansas State University have pl...  ...d the project for the entire United States, using statistics for each county on crime, income, STDs, and other...

This chart shows how heavy metal band names are related to each other and how you can place them in various categories - like deadly things and badass misspellings. Link - via kottke.org...