Projected international population change

If you have not yet watched the documentary by Shaw (2025), Birthgap , I strongly recommend it. I felt it connected many disparate elements ...

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A cup of tea and statistics

Now interestingly (I am not sure if this story is true or not) but I was rather taken by a story I read in Dave Trott's book, Crossover ...

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Accidents with statistics

I read a national news article earlier this year which announced boldly that "You’re more likely to hurt yourself while wearing jandals...

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This thing called food noise

I have recently been following the rise and rise of a new drug designed to dampen the appetite of those of us who eat too much (almost 40% o...

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New Zealand, we can do better!

We can define the precariat as those in our community where the norm is "unstable labor, low and unpredictable incomes, and [potentiall...

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Pushing back ignorance, one fact at a time

Gapminder is a "fact tank" founded by Hans Rosling, who was the Swedish population scientist/epidemiologist up until his death t...

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Data Never Sleeps 5.0

Following on from last year, Domo has once more published internet consumption / generation / creation data by the minute. The sum of digi...

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Getting clearer website analytics

Did you know that you can get website analytics on most websites? Free? This is handy, particularly when you are being told that you sho...

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Data Never Sleeps 3.0

Domo has published internet consumption / generation / creation data by the minute for the past couple of years. The sum of digital creati...

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Auckland: a cosmopolitan city

The Herald reported some statistics at the beginning of 2016 saying that Auckland was one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities, sitti...

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Lemon Moves from LinkedIn

I read a very interesting comment by Doris Schweppe on a LinkedIn thread recently. The group statistics were a great function for the gr...

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LinkedIn Group Statistics

I am the manager of a couple of LinkedIn Groups. Until June 30th of this year, as a group manager, LinkedIn provided you with Group stat...

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Davos by Numbers or "Who's on magic mountain"

The Economist reported that of 2,500 plus "hobnobber" invitees to the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos only 15% were women (24 ...

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Careers By the Numbers

I still remember the immense relief I felt, when at high school, I completed fifth form Maths. It was the all-encompassing rush of a nasty...

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