1,711,904,205 bytes and counting...

[morsla]

Charlotte: Who would have thought, fifteen years ago, that we'd be saving things on CDs after working in the lab?
Morsla: Who would have thought that we could generate so much data in an afternoon...?
Computer: Arrrrgh! It burns! Make the numbers stop!

I have created a monster. My ICP-MS data now runs to 1.59GB, and would need three CDs to carry around... soon, I'll try to make sense of it all.

How do you make sense of that many numbers? Pictures... many, many graphs, I suspect. You can't really grasp just how many grains of sand are on a beach, but you can see the shoreline :)

Comments

[mousebane.livejournal.com]

If you stare at the numbers for long enough, a pattern might emerge. That's how I managed to pass most of my exams. But you only have about two months left....will it be enough?

[morsla.livejournal.com]

That's the six-million-dollar question.

The one hundred and thirty dollar question is "will I have written myself off financially in the next two months, before I can start working regular shifts again?"

Only time will tell... and once I find some time, I'm not letting it get away from me ;)

[bishi-wannabe.livejournal.com]

Now, if only you could cultivate a mind-boggling arrogance, you'd be a perfect specimin of an employee of the Forbidding Manse of Ivy.

[lynsis.livejournal.com]

Yikes. That's just about one metric shit load of data.

[morsla.livejournal.com]

True - it's about 1.94 shitloads, by the Imperial measure :D

This is only the spreadsheets from the Rare Earth Elements, too. I have almost half as much again, if you add in the electron microscope images...

[lynsis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, those bloody imperialists, calling such a small amount of shit a shitload.

And far out. That is scary. I love my 116KB of data. Well, ok, there's a few blender model files and some videos which also count as data, but I'm still working on the order of millishitloads.