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That the Great Recession profited the wealthy has been clear for some time. Similarly, it hurt those who were worse off. For example, those at the top of the economic structure here more than ...

Last year, we identified blockchain, cloud, open-source, artificial intelligence, and knowledge graphs as the five key technological drivers for the 2020s. Although we did not anticipate the kind of ...

One of the challenges with modern machine learning systems is that they are very heavily dependent on large quantities of data to make them work well. This is especially the case with deep neural nets ...

For anyone who was expecting COVID-19 to vanish as soon as 2021 came around, I’m sorry to tell you but it isn’t going anywhere. If anything, we’re currently experiencing a second big outbreak in NSW, ...

In geography it is important to be able to read and understand data that is presented in a range of different ways. We often use graphs to present data in a clear and accessible way. There are many ...

Almost as soon as the COVID-19 pandemic began, graphs and many other visualisations charting the rise of the virus started to multiply. Many show the cumulative number of deaths attributed to the ...