May 2012

Spotify in Australia

22 May 2012

A very short post today! Finally one of the major music streaming services is available in Australia (I have complained about the limited options for music streaming down under here before). Spotify has now launched in Australia. I have signed up to investigate the service, so it is a bit early to give an opinion [...]

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Problem Pies

12 May 2012

Last month the IMF published their latest Global Financial Stability Report. A colleague, who knows I rarely approve of pie charts*, drew my attention to the charts on page 27 of Chapter 3 of the report, which I have reproduced here (click on the image to enlarge).  Here the authors of the report have decided to [...]

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