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The Nielsen Company recently released some stats that outline mobile usage giving us a look at what Americans are doing through their phones and with which device. From January to November, the iPhone, BlackBerry 8300 and Moto Razr stand as the top three most popular phones among Americans. Also, the company turned us to a chart that outlines the top ten websites accessed over the mobile web. Hit the jump for that list, but it’s safe to say that no one was surprised when they saw Google Search as number one. (more…)

Blprnt has a series of visualizations that represent the top organizations and people mentioned in the news articles of the New York Times for a given year of news between 1984 and 2009. Connections between these entities are drawn, so that relationships can be found and followed.

Blprnt’s Jer Thorp writes: 

The maps posted so far in the Flickr set are general ones – but these can also be generated for any refined keyword search. Similarly, while the current maps are for individual years, a map could be made for any given period of time (the Bush presidency, the Gulf War, September 2001), or indeed for the whole period of time available through the API (1981-present). 

More images after the jump.   (more…)

WWD has put out the following piece of raw data: The top ten U.S. metro areas, ranked by average household spending on men’s apparel. Austin’s on top with the Northern New Jersey-New York-Pennsylvania-Long Island area placing in 10th. I’m a bit surprised but I guess there are so many damn women shopping in NYC that all that money spent on luxe suits just can’t compete.  (more…)