Factualities for June 19, 2019

June 19, 2019

I must congratulate the purveyors of “real” news. Even though my screen time was limited for various, unexciting reasons, I did spot some fantastic numbers. Herewith I present some of the more fascinating data generated by the great minds fiddling with Excel and soon Salesforce with Tableau analytics. I am looking forward to those numerical confections. Let’s go, Salesforce.

-20. The percent decrease in cash flow if a British company does not implement artificial intelligence. (Note: There was no definition of artificial intelligence in the write which makes the number more special.) Source: Telegraph

10. The percentage of graphic liners in a UK nuclear plant reactor which have cracked; that is, failed. Source: BBC

13. Percentage of UK adults who trust big tech firms handling health data. Source: Techerati

18. The number of minutes it takes a New York Times’ reporter to read Facebook’s privacy policy. Source: New York Times

46. Age in years of the Department of Education’s computer system. Source: GAO

60. Percentage of “meat” which will come in 2040 from laboratories, not formerly alive animals. Source: Big Think

67. The percentage of UK doctors who find patient feedback negative. Source: Health Care IT News

94.5. Percentage of software vulnerabilities not exploited by bad actors. Source: ZDNet

2,300 to 12,594. Number of nitrite attributable cancers, possibly due to US drinking water. Note: Maybe a year, maybe more time. Source: Science Direct

$10,000. Cost of repairing a MacBook Pro screen which was not broken. (Software setting issue). Source: The Register

187,000. The number of users from whom Facebook collected data via an app Apple banned. Source: Techcrunch

7.7 million. Number of Lab Corp customers who experienced data loss due to the collection firm’s failed security system. Source: Krebs

$39 million. The cost of a gallon of scorpion venom healing compound. Source: Stanford

2.4 billion. Number of online game players worldwide. Source: Vox

$47 billion. The amount of money Google earned from news. Source: Free Press Journal

$52 million. Cost of a trip to the International Space Station. Source: Wired

Stephen E Arnold, June 19, 2019

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Factualities, News

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.