I was watching the late night news when a program that is shown at an earlier time The 7pm Project came on. I usually don’t watch at that time as I am watching the ABC news. This was on the Friday, 4th December.
Dr Karl was being interviewed about his science. There was an item regarding how all of mankind had originated from the east coast of Africa. At the end they were discussing the analysis of the data. Out of blue Dr Karl says, “Statisticians are the sluts of the maths world” as quoted by Adam Spencer. I have gone back to the original clip online but the segment has been cut out. I wonder why?
So there I was sitting, thinking I am a slut of the maths world. Hmmm. My sister would be laughing her head off if she heard anybody call me a slut! Something I cannot imagine, I don’t think anybody can. Making love with maths.
What is a slut? A floozy. I remember when I was young, being crazy in nightclubs and friends calling me a floozy, “go on, flitter away”. What was I doing? Going around and saying “hello” to all my friends in all areas of the club. Nothing wrong with that, I had a wide variety of friends with all different backgrounds.
If this is the case, that I can take my maths where ever I like, where people from all different disciplines know that I will understand them, know what they are trying to do with the numbers and they will understand my analysis. Then I don’t mind being called a slut of the maths world, not many people can say that they can understand maths which ever way you look at it.
So Adam, you are just jealous that I can take my maths to any discipline, whether corporate or research and any industry. Yes, I am a slut of the maths world but I am proud of being able to understand the numbers, interpret so people can understand and use the analysis in the manner required.
A blogger writing about data analytics. Where to begin? I start researching the subject that has come so easily to me in life. Why do I like working in data analytics? After many false starts, I came across the “Did you know?” series on YouTube. There are many versions and different themes. The first, “The progression of information technology” researched by Karl Fisch and the second by AndromedasWake’s Channel.
Now after looking at that with eyes and mouth open with the pumping beat in the background, let’s take a breath and look at what we found out in the last 5 minutes. (Additional information has been updated from teachertube, Social media revolution)
The People
China total population 1,300,000,000.(Imagine an auditorium with 1300 people and then imagine another 1 million of these auditoriums )
US total population less than India – 25% population with the highest IQ’s
Technical information doubling every 2 years
Today learner will have 10-14 jobs by the time they reach 38yrs old
¼ people employed < 1 year
½ people employed < 5 yrs
2010 - top 10 jobs did not exists in 2004
1/8 married couples in the US met online
In the last 5 minutes, US – 67 babies, China – 274 babies, India – 395 babies
The world is changing as it should. We won’t be able to say to our children “What do you want to be when you grow up?” And the first touch with our life partner may be over cyberspace and not in person.
The Technology Text Messages
1992 - First sent
Today - Sent everyday exceeds the population of the planet
Google searches 2006 – 2.7 billion a month
Today – 31 billion
Years to reach 50 million Radio - 38 years
TV - 13 years
Internet - 4 years
iPod - 3 years
FB - less than 9 months (100 million users)
iPod apps - 9 months (1 billion hits)
FB a country it would be 4th largest between the US and Indonesia but China Qzone larger with over 300 million using there services
Internet devices
1984 - 1,000(Remember where you were and what type of computer you were using) 1992 - 1,000,000
2008 - 1,000,000,000
Data transfer – 14 trillions (short – 10^12, long – 10^18) bits per second
CD’s = 2,660 per second
Phone calls = 210 million per second
2013 – computer with the computational power of human brain
2049 – computer with the computational power of the entire human species
In the last 5 minutes, 694,000 songs downloaded illegally(I can honestly say I have never downloaded a song illegally )
Technology has made us find different ways of reaching out to more and more people in a shorter time. We no longer have to wait for the news, the news now comes to us. I did not know about MJ’s death until well into the late afternoon when we knew in the early morning. So goes to show if you do turn everything off you may never know but you will eventually find out using one of the mediums, it was FB.
The Knowledge Words – 540,000 (English language)
5x more than in Shakespeare’s time
New York Times – one week is more than information than a lifetime in the 18th century.
Unique information this year 4 exabytes (4×10^19) will be more than the previous 5,000 years.
Wikipedia – 13 million articles
New articles - 156.23 per hour
Blogs – 2,000,000,000(Can you hear me?) 54% post content or tweet daily
The people and the technology have given us an amazing knowledge base. Everybody wants to share information, even me! ( makes you wonder what did all the ADD people do before the internet?)
Whether or not you believe the numbers is a totally different question (and won’t be discussed in this forum). What we have done here is all to do with the numbers. We are comparing where we are now to where we once were. Another title for this series is called “Shift Happens”. We are comparing our population change, our technology growth, our extensive knowledge and how we transfer this knowledge all around the world. The numbers show that we have been able to achieve so much in such a short time and the ability to achieve so much more.
The AndromedasWake’s version of Did you know? This one made me think about the variances we have in our numbers.(The last 1min 15secs are pretty pictures)
The Universe Age – aprrox. 13.7 billion years
Size – expands 93 billion light years, 3 dimensions - it has no edge or centre, Matter & energy - less than 5% is detectable(What is the other 95%?),100 billion galaxies, septillions(short, 10^24, long, 10^42, so many zeros , doesn’t matter which scale)of stars Birth – can be reckoned to 10 tredecillionths(short, 10^42 or long, 10^72)of a second before time began(Can we fathom that amount of time?) No one knows what happen prior to this time(nothing to measure )
The Knowledge Sun – light generated takes 10,000 years to reach the surface from the centre.
Exoplanet - twice the size of Jupiter and orbits its sun in 3.2 earth days.(All 4 seasons in 3.2 days) Shooting stars – millions occur everyday
Neutron star – rotates at 716 times per second, the equator surface achieving 24% the speed of light
Gammar ray burst – releases as much energy in a few seconds than the sun in it’s lifetime
Milkyway – 15 satellite galaxies orbiting
Venus – one day is longer than its year
Saturn – density is so low, the entire planet would float on water
Pluto – water ice is harder than steel
In contrast to the first Did you know, no thump, thump, thump in the background. And also the contrast in the numbers and how much we don’t know. We only know what we can measure and compare to what is known here and now.
Imagine the time light being generated from the sun’s centre today and reaches the surface. What amount of knowledge will we have accumulated? Will we be able to harness all that energy out there? Will we be able to transmit as much data as an exoplanet’s orbit or a neutron star’s rotatation? Will we have the answer to the Before Time question? Too many questions, known and unknown, to be asked .
The numbers I deal with daily, of course, do not bring out one’s imagination as the one’s we have seen today. But, it is the numbers that reveal the questions and it also the numbers that will show our achievements. This is why I am passionate about data analytics . Yes, some call me mad but data analytics is not boring.
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