Welcome to the latest edition of Bacon Bytes. We are one week into GDPR, which means we are about three weeks away from finding out which companies are not able to comply with requests. Today we talk about that as well as student debt, what to do with your ashes, and the sexiest job on the planet.
5
The number of secret Twitter accounts allegedly belonging to Philadelphia Sixers president of basketball operations VP Bryan Colangelo. Colangelo claimed that someone is “out to get him”, and then it was discovered that the accounts were all tied to phones owned by his wife. While it is possible that this may be her way of getting back at him for leaving the toilet seat up, I’d suggest that there are better ways to communicate than through fake Twitter accounts.
40
The length in miles of the tornado path through our region seven years ago today. I didn’t believe the reports at first because tornados are rare for us here. So of course, I was outside grilling pork for dinner while the twister was passing less than two miles from my house. I’m still waiting for on my Darwin award for that.
101
That’s the number of people who owe more than $1 million in student loans, up from 14 people only five years ago. Mike Meru is one of those 101, having borrowed more than $600k during his seven-year education at USC.
500
More than 500 emails addresses were exposed in the “to” field from ad-blocker company Ghostery last week as they made an effort to tell everyone they were “on top” of GDPR compliance. Ghostery wasn’t alone, lots of companies were struggling with email in their hurry to send out information on GDPR. If you can’t get something as simple as email correct, maybe you should consider a different line of work.
$4,500
That’s how much it costs to have your ashes scattered in the jet stream, about 15 miles above the Earth. 2015 marked the first year where more Americans were being cremated than not. With this rise in popularity comes a rise in the number of options for your remains. It’s not the same as being launched into space, but it’s close and cheaper than a casket in the ground.
$119,000
That’s the average midpoint salary for a data scientist right now, with $168k at the 95th percentile and some jobs earning $300k (or more). The “sexiest job” right now is data science, as there is a dearth of people that can analyze data properly and companies are willing to pay top dollar to someone that understands the importance of a p-value.
See you next week!
