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It’s predicted that by 2025 we will reach 175 zettabytes of data created worldwide. For reference, one zettabyte stores as much information as 33 million human brains. Seeing such a figure, it can be hard to wrap around our heads just how much data is available to us, let alone be able to scratch its surface. 

That’s why the creator of the Instagram account “We Have The Data” does their best to find and share data visualizations that present big amounts of information in an easy-to-understand and aesthetically pleasing way. Scroll down to find their best posts and make sure to upvote the ones that you find the most enlightening. 

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Traveling Lady Railfan
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a dear friend who turned 100 this year and imagine how much the world has changed for her, during her lifetime! (PS...hi Noelene!!)

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In the last eleven years, the generated volume of data grew by almost 5000% worldwide. And if someone would download all the information from the web today, it would take approximately 181 million years.

Despite these numbers being quite substantial, only 10% of the data we have today is original. The rest is copied and replicated. In fact, it’s predicted that the unique and copied information ratio will change from 1:9 to 1:10 by the end of 2024.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For clarity, this is a warning system that raises an alarm so that extra samples are taken and analysed in a lab (this is in addition to regular samples that are tested frequently, regardless of the sentinel clams). The fate of the Polish water supply is not dictated solely by all powerful clams.

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Internet users spent around 2.8 million years online in 2018, generating more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day. This number just keeps growing, as it was found that in 2020, internauts created 1.7 megabytes of information every second, totaling 40 zettabytes that year.

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Traveling Lady Railfan
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ugh. As a Canadian and a railfan....I just shake my head. They've been talking of plans to do something about this longer than Ive been dlive.

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How do we do it? Well, WhatsApp users alone exchange more than 65 billion messages and complete 55 million video calls daily. The app allows more than 1 billion groups to connect and interact with each other, generating large amounts of data. 

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wight is effected by the density of ingredients. For example, a place where I worked had a cafeteria that based the price of a salad on size of the bowl instead of weight. So I would pack in all of the heavy ingredients and then use them over the weekend for other dishes. It was cheaper than going to the grocery store.

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According to 2023 statistics, Facebook produces 4,000 terabytes each day and ranks as the most visited site worldwide. Meanwhile, X accumulates 500 million posts daily, totaling 560 gigabytes of information. And the young people’s favorite app, TikTok, averages 7.35 terabytes of data each day. 

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There were other inter-connected networks by that time, going by various names and using various networking protocols, in Europe as well as the USA. That one is thought of as the precursor to the internet just by virtue of the way it set many ground rules for what would become TCP/IP, the backbone of the very much later World Wide Web..

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1 week ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Being born in the right place (and at the right time, for many) in essence means you’ve won the jackpot of life. We just don’t see it most of the time because we’re surrounded by other lucky bastards

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Before most of this information is stored away, it’s converted into numbers 1 and 0. When it’s changed into symbols that computers can process quicker, it can be stored away in one of three locations. First are devices that can be linked to the internet, like our personal computers, smartphones, tablets, and other similar technologies

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"Uptown, midtown, downtown of Toronto"

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Traveling Lady Railfan
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was astounded to see photos of "the great metropolitan Toronto" from the late 70s/early 80s. Aside from the CN tower (1976) it doesn't even LOOK like Toronto!

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The second is called the edge, which already includes bigger infrastructures like cell towers and servers used in institutions like universities, government offices, factories, and banks. The third location that stores the most amount of data is known as the core, which are traditional data servers and cloud data centers.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is why politicians should not be allowed to benefit from their decisions - being a landlord or owning company shares should bar you from public office. In Plato's republic, the lawmakers were the wisest people motivated by wanting to build a great society for all. Their needs were all met by the state, but they owned no private property.

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The largest data center in the world belongs to China Telecom Data Centre, in Hohhot. It occupies 10.7 million square feet, equivalent to about 180 football fields. When we say that we store information in the cloud, it’s not being stashed away somewhere in the atmosphere. It’s being kept in massive data centers—physical objects that actually take up quite a lot of space on our planet. 

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Since data generation is ever-growing, to meet the demand for storage, around 100 new data centers are built every two years. It’s estimated that if it continues to increase at the rate it is now, to sustain it, in 110 years we’ll need all the planetary power we consume today. 

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"The easternmost point of Brazil is closer to Africa than to its westernmost point"

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1 week ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What determines where the solar system ends? Is this the radius of where the furthest things can be that orbit our sun? I'm surprised how populated the outer 'skin' looks, or is that just to help us visualise it?

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is this correlation or causation? People who are able to dance are definitely feeling better than those who are unable (by dint of a depressive illness I mean) Maybe more research is needed??

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"The numbers 0-99 sorted alphabetically in different languages"

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Shows those languages that use the tens+units format, so each ten has the same shaped cluster, vs those that use the units+tens format. (i.e. twenty-one, twenty-two etc. vs one-and-twenty, two-and-twenty...)

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's a little misleading, shows the areas where wolves have been reported but doesn't give any true idea of how few there still are in those areas.

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