Category Archives: Statistics
Threads Statistics as of 2024: Users, Revenue & Demographics
Threads is an online social media platform operated by Meta Platforms that allows users to share their posts, reposts, likes, images, videos, and more. Threads was launched in July 2023 and gained 1 million sign-ups within the 1st hour of … Continue reading
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WhatsApp Statistics, Users, Demographics as of 2024
WhatsApp is an instant messaging app owned by Meta platforms that allows users to send messages, images, voice notes, video messages, etc rapidly through this app. As of June 2023, there were approximately 2.78 billion unique active WhatsApp users globally. … Continue reading
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Cyberbullying Facts & Statistics (2024)
Cyberbullying is harassment or bullying that takes place through digital services. Cyberbullying comprises offensive, hateful, degrading, and mean content, text, and messages shared to embarrass an individual. At times, the content or text shared by a bully can make someone … Continue reading
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Average Screen Time Statistics (2024)
A large section of people globally works using their laptops or smartphones, which has significantly increased the screen time presence of most adults. It was reported that an average American has a screen time of 7 hours and 4 minutes … Continue reading
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What is the Real-World Impact of AI?
It’s difficult to measure the real-world impact of AI because “artificial intelligence” is poorly defined. Read more
Best of 2019: 60 Years of Progress in AI
[January 8, 2019] Today is the first day of CES 2019 and artificial intelligence (AI) “will pervade the show,” says Gary Shapiro, chief executive of the Consumer Technology Association. One hundred and thirty years ago today (January 8, 1889), Herman … Continue reading
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Translating Between Computer Science and Statistics
Terence Parr: “I am a computer scientist retooling as a machine learning droid and have found the nomenclature used by statisticians to be peculiar to say the least, so I thought I’d put this document together. It’s meant as good-natured … Continue reading
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Statistics and Machine Learning
The image above is taken from a data mining primer course SAS offered in 1998. Aatash Shah, CEO of Edvancer Eduventures, in KDnuggets: Machine learning requires no prior assumptions about the underlying relationships between the variables. You just have to throw … Continue reading
Data visualization: Plotting life expectancy against income for 200 countries over 200 years
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo?rel=0] Hans Rosling’s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport’s commentator’s style to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has … Continue reading
On Data Janitors, Engineers, and Statistics
Big Data Borat tweeted recently that “Data Science is 99% preparation, 1% misinterpretation.” Commenting on the 99% part, Cloudera’s Josh Wills says: “I’m a data janitor. That’s the sexiest job of the 21st century. It’s very flattering, but it’s also a little … Continue reading
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