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Demand Equal Pay for Women is just a page of data, though its developers have done some of their own calculations on top of the public data, and the site has some good statistics: closing the gender pay gap, they say, would add half a trillion dollars to the consumer economy.
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According to a new collection of statistics by the web site Pingdom, as of January 2012, of the 2.1 billion active Internet users worldwide, 1.2 billion people access the web via a mobile device.
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Another exciting open data announcement came from the U.S. Census Bureau which updated its popular QuickFacts site with the new American Community Survey statistics (about 11 billion individual estimates), providing access to information about a town, county or state.
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