Data, fiction and politicsWhy don’t governments treat climate data the same way they would polling data? asks Possum Comitatus. If politicians’ popularity numbers showed the same clear, long-term trends as global warming figures, you can bet they’d have acted by now.
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How much is a petabyte?
Remember when a floppy disc held 360 kilobytes of data and a gigabyte was almost inconceivable? The next unit of storage you’ll be dealing with is a Petabyte. How much data is that? This infographic breaks it down.
Is the Victorian Government running without data backups?
At Victorian Government offices, there hasn’t been a full data backup in more than a year, writes Stigherrian.
Economy wrap: Sharemarket run won’t last long
Commodity and sharemarkets are set for some temporary respite but the good news can’t last, writes Glenn Dyer.
Doom-laden US data wrap
The grim economic indicators keep emerging from the US, writes Glen Dyer, and there’s more bad news on the way.
