Out of the blue

Interesting snippets from the world of data

This month we’re looking at data and analysis in everyday life. Can you use data to guess someone’s age just from their name, find out how likely your chosen career is to survive the robot revolution and see if you can judge a book by its cover.

 

The Robots are taking over. How much of a threat is automation to your job? Research has worked out the likelihood of a machine replacing you in the next 20 years.

 

 

 

Can you guess someone’s age by their name? You can have a pretty good guess. You can even see patterns of famous names – Khaleesi (from Game of Thrones) is exclusively for 2-3 year olds.

 

 

 

Can you judge a book by its cover? This simple game lets you rate the covers of different books and tells you how close you were to the actual review.

 

 

 

Picture perfect. This clever tool lets you pick a series of faces and see the ‘average’ of them, normally becoming more attractive as you add more faces to the mix.

 

 

Til next month,

Spencer Lucas