Just the Facts Deux
More facts than ever before are available. The question on everyone's lips: "How many Twinkies did Hostess make last year?" Find this and thousands of other facts and stats at Facster: The Facts at Your Fingertips. Those who know me know I love trivial facts and stats. The problem I have with this site is that it has so much info that search time is drastically increased in attempting to narrow the search. However if you are willing to look in broad categories there are hyperlinks to specific specialty fact areas like: Comparative International Stats, detailed Consumer Price Indexes, State Statistical Abstracts and a whole lot more.
While we're talking of statistics: If you are into stats, you absolutely must subscribe to the Wall Street Journal's Numbers Guy, Carl Bialik. There's a lot of statistics running around without a leash out there and Carl Bialik gets the real deal on the numbers--where they come from, are they really accurate, what do they really mean. I think you can subscribe to his newsletter even if you are not a WSJ subscriber by going to: http://online.wsj.com/reg/page/0,,5_3017,00.html. There are other newsletters you may be able to sign up for as well.
While we're talking of statistics: If you are into stats, you absolutely must subscribe to the Wall Street Journal's Numbers Guy, Carl Bialik. There's a lot of statistics running around without a leash out there and Carl Bialik gets the real deal on the numbers--where they come from, are they really accurate, what do they really mean. I think you can subscribe to his newsletter even if you are not a WSJ subscriber by going to: http://online.wsj.com/reg/page/0,,5_3017,00.html. There are other newsletters you may be able to sign up for as well.
posted by Joe at
9:45 PM
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Thanks for mentioning Facster (note spelling). We are always trying to improve the site, so feedback is important. You can contact us directly on the site.
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