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Nice to meet you!
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Let the December celebrations begin! ;)
This weekend I celebrated Sinterklaas (Dutch version of Santa Claus, I guess...) with my family: lots of candy, presents, and funny poems. No sight of the much discussed black Pete though.
Hope your December too will be filled with joy and family gatherings. And for all you Americans, that you had a good Thanksgiving. :)
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- The older you get, the higher the percentage of people your age who are married. Luckily for you singles out there, the dating pool actually grows thanks to the Standard Creepiness Rule. ;) Nice side project with minimalistic charts by Nathan Yau.
- The best of the data visualization web of August 2018, collected by Andy Kirk. Here's my personal favourite that is not featured in this newsletter before: Making a Whimsical Data Visualization by Kristin Henry.
- A friendly introduction to open data, by Tom MacWright.
- The Los Angeles Times shared the data analysis behind the story on the long history of deadly crashes of the best-selling civilian helicopter, the Robinson R44. To view the story itself, you'll need a VPN when in Europe...
- According to a recent study but he Reuters Institute journalism is too obsessed with technology-led innovation. I recognise the study (PDF) results - even in this very newsletter: “manifestation of “Shiny Things Syndrome” included a fixation with artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), automated reporting (AR)”. (Note to self: keep focusing on the journalism part of data journalism!) Luckily the research have suggestions on how to combat this shiny-things-syndrome.
- In 2044 non-hispanic whites, aka white people, will be less than 50 percent of the American population. The number is making demographers and other scientist nervous: “Statistics are powerful. They are a description of who we are as a country. If you say majority-minority, that becomes a huge fact in the national discourse.”
- Apparantly, in New York the metro's are delayed often. In May this year the New York Times published a very nice production, explaining how two decisions by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority cause these delays. The bad news? There is no easy fix. The good news? The explanation looks gooood, and is a great example of using as little as possible to explain as much and as clear as possible. (See image.)
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