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More on MapBox at El Pais: distance from infrastructure, and correlation migration/far-right votes
Last week I linked to El Pais' excellent mapping work of Spanish electoral data. I then had a chat with Daniele Grasso, the data journalists behind the piece, who highlighted two very interesting uses they've made of Mapbox capabilities: one about every Spanish municipality's distance from basic facilities (in Spanish, and automatically translated into English); and one about the correlation between far-right votes and migrants' presence in Spain ( Spanish and English). It's absolutely brilliant stuff.
Street Network Orientation by Road Type
I love the OSM analysis library, osmnx. Erin Davies has now used it to make a variation on the theme of "street road networks orientation", adding categorisation by road type.
New powers, new responsibilities. A global survey of journalism and artificial intelligence
"The Journalism AI report is based on a survey of 71 news organisations in 32 different countries regarding artificial intelligence and associated technologies." Mandatory reading by Charlie Beckett, Mattia Peretti & colleagues.
Population levels in Manhattan hourly throughout the week.
A brilliant illustration of what D3 can do, with code available.
(via Guy Lipman)
All the World's Borders (using R)
With a few variants, such as the one below.
Of course, if you like python, there's always OSMNX that can do this and other stuff.
150 years of Nature: a data graphic charts our evolution
"An analysis of the archive shows how the contributors and content have varied over the decades."
Heatscore
"In January 2019, the largest dump of login data – now known as Collection #1 - #5, was released into the dark web. Analyzing just the passwords revealed patterns of human behavior in how we create character keys that fulfil security requirements. And even if you come up with an approved password, how unique is your combination really?"
Democrats are dominating state-level races
"Democrats flipped Virginia’s House and Senate on Nov. 5, giving the party a trifecta — control of both state legislative chambers and the governorship — for the first time since 1993. [...] These results add to a string of Democratic state-level victories since 2016."
Among other things, I didn't know the word trifecta and now I love it.
(via Sophie's Fair Warning)
Sensor based journalism
The latest issue of "Conversations with Data", the newsletter of the European Journalism Centre, focuses on sensors. Journalists seem to use sensors in "weird and wonderful ways", the newsletter reports. An example? "In Superkühe we followed three ordinary cows from three different farms". Yes, they did!
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