Ped Observations: High-Speed Rail Followup pedestrianobservations.com/2021/03/22/hig…

Observing Many Researchers using the Same Data and Hypothesis Reveals a Hidden Universe of Data Analysis osf.io/preprints/meta…

The Spanish Tax Agency + Social Security + Bank of Spain are joining forces to join their data table and make them available to researchers to make more data driven policy making in Spain 😍📊

Longitudinal spatial dataset on travel times and distances by different travel modes in Helsinki Region nature.com/articles/s4159…

A simple machine learning model considering the combination of nationality, age, sex and few other factors was 2-4x times more effective detecting asymptomatic infected travelers at the Greece border than the random sampling most nations have been applying for Covid testing 🦠📊

Yet another example of how crucial is that the state collects relevant data and makes it accesible!

Are parents spending less time with their kids? Dads and moms are spending more and more time than ever before with their children. ourworldindata.org/parents-time-w…

The US redistributes a greater share of national income to low-income groups than any European country... but access to education and healthcare or labor market regulations might explain why Europe is less unequal. Teach a man to fish! Read the paper 👉 wid.world/document/why-i…

Super interesting paper on Nature using data from Reddit communities they found what communities are more polarized in socio-demographic terms. By Ashton Anderson and Isaac Waller What communities are you more surprised by? nature.com/articles/s4158…

I made this personalized doormat for my home using this great strip from Wiley Miller to never forget we live in a complex world with complex answers and our only hope is keep reading and avoid strong opinions

Chart-topping original movies have gone extinct. People have a lot of explanations for this, but they're all incomplete because they don't realize the same thing is happening everywhere. An oligopoly has conquered all of popular culture.

Great paper using Lyft data provea racial discrimination against minority drivers in the US controlling by multiple factors

Accessing U.S. data for research just got easier New online portal streamlines requests for massive data sets at 16 federal agencies science.org/content/articl…

At graphext, we are making the impossible possible: working with datasets of millions of rows in a browser. We are looking for programmers who know C++ and/or TypeScript to continue building on top of this impossible front 👇 graphext.com/careers/c-deve…

There's a great indicator for predicting how well a country's economy will develop. It is based on the diversity and originality of the products a country knows how to manufacture and export, which César A. Hidalgo and Ricardo Hausmann refer to as the Economic Complexity Index. For

When are the most goals scored in a football match? I’ve been asking myself this question my whole life, and I finally found the dataset to answer it with graphext , using 44K goals from International football results from 1872 to 2024. Clearly, the chances increase

Doctors come from a poor childhood. Artists come from a rich childhood.

Delighted to release this paper on Auten & Splinter’s work, painstakingly going through their code & assumptions gabriel-zucman.eu/files/PSZ2024.… We uncover key mistakes—and show that once fixed, their methodology implies the same rise of inequality as in Piketty-Saez-Zucman 🧵

The Software Complexity of Nations Nice economic complexity analysis of open source data. Suggests that software complexity represents a distinct type of competitive advantage and that countries specialise on programming languages related to those they are already capable on.

Top posts on Reddit are increasingly being generated by ChatGPT, as indicated by the boom in em dash usage.