Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Seeing the numbers

David Hood

Fri, 27 Sept 2013 20:54:04 +1200

I will admit, putting together data sets to run my own analyses of questions in the media is basically a recreational activity of mine. I'll have to keep in mind this is a option for sharing what I've come up with, though most of the data I use would take…

tussock

Fri, 27 Sept 2013 18:52:51 +1200

Noting that technology costs are themselves driven by the cost of employees in the technology sector, so it's really a race between the ultimate productivity of different skill sets. At least in theory.

Good capitalists are always putting some poor bugger out of a job, after all, unless the entrenched…

Paul Brislen

Fri, 27 Sept 2013 15:46:59 +1200

Tremendous information. Thanks for pointing that out, Russell. I'm tired of banging my head against a wall without data, now I can head-bang with it!

Matthew Poole

Fri, 27 Sept 2013 15:38:41 +1200

a lot of companies aren't willing to invest in new plant / new processes because they don't get a return out of it.

Especially when they can pay a pittance, secure in the knowledge that the taxpayer will top up their employees' meagre incomes to a level which makes it…

Rich of Observationz

Fri, 27 Sept 2013 14:17:27 +1200

For most of the time graphed, NZ governments have been pumping fairly large amounts of money into favoured industries: big-budget films, big sport, tourism. Doesn't seem to have got us very far?

Dave Patrick

Fri, 27 Sept 2013 13:04:17 +1200

The lack of input to research and development is also part of the reason why we always show up poorly in productivity comparisons – we're working longer hours for less output because a lot of companies aren't willing to invest in new plant / new processes because they don't get…

Bart Janssen

Fri, 27 Sept 2013 09:24:04 +1200

Some of those graphs are really depressing.

I wonder whether some of the reduction in manufacturing employment is due to better and more efficient equipment. Even if that is true is indicates manufacturing is not a growth area in NZ. The other part of the equation is that with the…

Henry Barnard

Fri, 27 Sept 2013 09:15:25 +1200

Thanks for that, Russell. Combines nicely with another site – gapminder – which has a lot of comparative information about New Zealand . I only discovered it this week.:)

ChrisW

Fri, 27 Sept 2013 06:48:16 +1200

I'll experiment with presenting them at images in our photoblog template, but the embeds here will do for now. Not that you can click them to see a bigger version.)
I noted the access to bigger versions as I read this, thanks.

I noted too what…

Public Address

Fri, 27 Sept 2013 06:48:16 +1200

Discussion from blog post.