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Worldometer – real time world statistics

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28 pointsmattowen_uk14 comments

The thing I remember about Worldometer is that Max Roser of Our World In Data ("OWID") was appalled by the quality of their data on Corona last year. Have these issues been resolved?

https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1248585604809490432

https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1262723848866316288

I am going to put my bad person hat and complain these are not real time statistics.

I doubt they have tapped into the feed of actual children being born and people dying, videogames sold or tweets sent.

I am going to assume that it is ticking up by the interpolated number each second based up what it did last week / month / year.

I would love for more actual real time data to be public.

I'm certain no one believes these numbers are actually real time as per definition of real time, as it would be impossible to know. But yeah, even the title tag contains "Worldometer - real time world statistics" so if they cannot even avoid lying with the very first data that gets parsed by the browser, what's to say they don't lie about the other stats?

Being constructive - I would absolutely love to see a world where we could get this sort of information for real in real time (or lets just say, as of 1 hour ago or 5 minutes ago).

Potentially some of the data points are possible with current technology - I am looking at the 'number of tweets' as a point.

Anything beyond a completely centralized service (like twitter) is castle in the clouds levels of hard.

Maaaaaaaaybe the forst loss stat? Via satellite images?

Not being flippant but I have to ask what is the use case to have real time statistics?

I applaud whoever put this site together - it's a simple thing that aggregates stats and runs counters, for what reason I'm not sure, but it seems like they put a decent effort into it. And they don't run ads, which is great. But it really got its boost in 2020 when everyone who was watching had to look at it every goddamn day for pandemic numbers.

There's nothing new about this site, but it is a nice site.

>got its boost in 2020

This website is now among top 1000 websites on the web:

Alexa rank #463 https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/worldometers.info

SimilarWeb rank #635 https://www.similarweb.com/website/worldometers.info/ (~100M-150M visits/user sessions per month)

> And they don't run ads, which is great

You must be running an ad blocker because Worldometers most definitely runs ads.

I also see ads.

To be fair, I seem to recall them having no ads on their Covid pages - but I see ads there now, too.

While I think the idea of visualizations of global scale number is good this seems to bring with it a political agenda. It would be improved if I could see multiple viewpoints and those agendas were made fully transparent.

I also think some ratios/comparisons could be interesting. The rate of births to deaths would be interesting to see with the numbers ticking along. While I can see the population ticking up I never realized there were 67k more people born every day than die.

It's shocking to me how much energy is stored in oil and natural gas (and insolation). We're spoiled with resources! And still so many suffer without the basic necessities of life.

I don't really believe that this is a real time world statistics, there are a lot of variables at play and thus, one can't measure an accurate figure of a specific category.

You are right, this is the .js that increments the numbers, it does not have any networking:

https://www.realtimestatistics.net/rts/RTSp.js

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