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Which Investment Bank is spending too much on their staff?

Posted in Investment Banking & Hedge Funds, Statistics on May 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

JP Morgan yesterday announced predictions that would see a deterioration in investment banking revenues in the second half of 2012.  An interesting point in Kian Abouhossein’s report is this little table which looks at employee affordability: The table tracks investment banking compensation as a percentage of revenues. At the end of 2011, one thing was [...]

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Top 10 Countries By User On LinkedIn

Posted in Recruitment, Statistics on May 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Fascinated by Bill’s post on the Top 10 Countries By User On LinkedIn 1: UNITED STATES Total LinkedIn Users: 58,526,154 Penetration of population: 18.87% Penetration of online pop.: 24.46% Facebook Users: 157,067,260 2: INDIA Total LinkedIn Users: 13,352,622 Penetration of population: 1.14% Penetration of online pop.: 16.48% Facebook Users: 4,589,992 3: UNITED KINGDOM Total LinkedIn [...]

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History of Instragram

Posted in Statistics, Technical/Gadgets, The web on May 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Learn more about Instagram’s brief but explosive history, from its conception to its recent $1B purchase by Facebook:

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A Day in the Life of the Internet

Posted in Society, Statistics, The web on May 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The Internet is, by most scientific estimates, absolutely huge. While only about one-third of the world’s population is connected, the amount of data we generate and consume is so large it is near impossible to comprehend.  Perhaps the best way to put all those petabytes in perspective is to look at what goes down in [...]

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10 Incredible Health Benefits of Laughter

Posted in Hacks for work and life, Statistics on March 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Lots of people talk about how laughter is good for the soul and the body, this article on the 10 Incredible Health Benefits of Laughter evidences this in a little more detail: Reduces stress hormones: When people laugh heartily and deeply, the physical exertion causes the body to release endorphins, one of the complex neuropeptide chemicals produced [...]

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Easter eggs and other sweets

Posted in Children's and Youth Work, Statistics on March 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I loved this post full of statistics about Easter chocolate and sweets from Creative Youth Ideas: 90 million chocolate Easter bunnies are made for Easter each year. Each day, five million marshmallow chicks and bunnies are produced in preparation for Easter. 16 billion jelly beans are made for Easter 63 percent of Americans would most like to receive [...]

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Who uses social media?

Posted in Statistics, The web on March 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

According to recent research more than 66% of adults are connected to at least one form of social media.  To understand this more fully check out this great infographic based on American research: From Online MBA Resource via Ministry Best Practices

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Christmas dinner increasingly expensive

Posted in Statistics on January 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »

The traditional Christmas turkey roast and trimmings will have cost you a lot more in 2011. According to the Office for National Statistics recent report some of the ingredients have risen by over 50%!  Whilst some like carrots and potatoes have actually fallen on average, bacon and sausages have gone up by well over 10%, [...]

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Monitoring poverty and social exclusion

Posted in Children's and Youth Work, Society, Statistics on December 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The annual report on the state of poverty and social exclusion in the UK, from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the New Policy Institute has recently been published: Key points In the year to 2009/10, the child poverty rate fell to 29%, the second fall in two years. Child poverty fell by around one-seventh under [...]

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7 Billion: Are You Typical?

Posted in Society, Statistics on November 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Interesting video from National Geographic on the typical person as the population passes 7 Billion:

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