Until recently, it was impossible to measure the popularity of older music. Billboard charts and album sales only tell us about a song’s popularity at the time of its release. But now we have...
The M29 bus route cuts straight through Berlin. It starts in the villa districts in the west of the city, passes through the troubled inner city areas, and ends in Berlin’s trendiest districts....
Rents are on the rise in Berlin, and the reasons are manifold. Online portals of the so-called “sharing economy”, such as Airbnb, are marketing to tourists and have proven to be a profitable...
In machine learning, computers apply statistical learning techniques to automatically identify patterns in data. These techniques can be used to make highly accurate predictions. Keep scrolling....
Since December, our model has taken in all published constituency-level polls, UK-wide polls and polling conducted in the nations, and projected the result in each of the 650 Westminster...
What to study in Costa Rica? Would it be worth investing in that career? Are there openings in that field in local market? How much can you earn at companies in that country? Are there many people...
A graphics and data-rich profile of the man who creates the Madden Ratings, the numerical grades used in EA Sports' Madden NFL football videogame franchise.
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Skeptics of manmade climate change offer various natural causes to explain why the Earth has warmed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880. But can these account for the planet's rising temperature?This...
This website allows the user to explore the data around the migrant crisis in Europe, including the routes, the fatalities, and the response of the different European countries.
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“I am sorry to say that with the importation of what will be tens of thousands of drones, by both U.S. military and by commercial interests, into U.S. airspace, with a specific mandate to engage in...
Looking at six big issues—interracial marriage, prohibition, women’s suffrage, abortion, same-sex marriage, and recreational marijuana — this visualisation shows how this has happened in the...
In the early euphoria following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Germany moved quickly to erase the scars of its Cold War division. But East Germany’s legacy remains visible in...
For the Dutch version of the Deloitte Global Mobile Consumer Survey, Deloitte asked 2000 residents of the Netherlands about their mobile phone behaviour. The respondents gave information about...
Elephant ivory is now a key source of funding for armed groups in central Africa like the Lord’s Resistance Army. National Geographic commissioned the creation of artificial tusks with hidden GPS...
Men now outnumber women on the planet by 60 million, the highest ever recorded. Preference for sons in India and China is driving the trend, but those two countries are not the only ones struggling...
The Guardian began investigating Homan Square, a secretive Chicago police warehouse, in February 2015. After launching a transparency lawsuit, the Guardian has forced the Chicago police...
When it comes to the new vehicles people buy in America, the story is all about light-trucks—the broad category that includes pickups, SUVs, crossovers, and minivans. As the economy gains strength...
629,000 girls (aged 0–6 years) are estimated to be missing in India every year. The majority of them are aborted, others are killed, abandoned or neglected to death just because they are girls....
I squirt some water into my mouth. It's vaguely lemon-lime. As I go to return the water bottle to its cage on my bike, it slips out of my hand, hitting the pavement and bouncing into the bushes....
In just eight years, Pinellas County School Board members turned five schools in the county's black neighborhoods into some of the worst in Florida. First they abandoned integration, leaving the...