We asked 25,000 people in 24 countries how much they liked 34 national cuisines. Here are the top 5: 1. Italian cuisine - average of 84% in each country who have tried it say they like it 2. Chinese - 78% 3. Japanese - 71% 4. Thai - 70% 5. French - 70% yougov.co.uk/topics/food/ar…

ICYMI at PAA: the new database on migration of scholars is out scholarlymigration.org Powered by Aliakbar Akbaritabar, @[email protected] and Tom Theile with input from Samin Aref Maciej Jan Danko Ridhi Kashyap Ebru Sanliturk Xinyi Zhao Andrea Miranda-González Guy Stecklov @jevinwest L. Nemeth, FC Billari and more.

🚀MPIDR has launched the Scholarly Migration Database! 📚 Led by Emilio Zagheni Aliakbar Akbaritabar, @[email protected] & Tom Theile, the database covers data from 50 million articles and over 17 million author profiles! 🔗bit.ly/3VgkMg7

What does LinkedIn data reveal about where professionals want to relocate? Nice write up by Max Planck Society, with a focus on Eastern Europe. For more details and broader trends, see the original ICWSM study: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWS…

We will soon roll out a new author disambiguation system that is more accurate, better aligned with ORCID, and will provide a much better experience overall! As part of this change, all existing OpenAlex Author IDs will disappear and be replaced by new ones.

Apply now for our free online course on Topics in Digital and Computational Demography, 4-8 December 2023, presented by MPIDR scientists Aliakbar Akbaritabar, @[email protected], Risto Conte, Jisu Kim, Tom Theile and Emilio Zagheni! Details: demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122… Application deadline is 22 October 2023.

📣𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲💻𝗵𝘆𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱👩‍🏫𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲🆓: Course on Topics in Digital & Computational Demography MPIDR: 𝟰-𝟴 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯! Instructors: Aliakbar Akbaritabar, @[email protected], Risto Conte, Jisu Kim , Tom Theile & Emilio Zagheni. Application deadline: 22 October 2023 demogr.mpg.de/go/IDEM187-2023

🚨Last Call for Applications 🚨 👉Deadline is Oct 22, 2023

The Our World in Data team just finished a major project. We've redesigned and rebuilt our Grapher — the tool that displays our data in interactive visualizations. In this new article, my colleagues Marwa, Christian, and Sophia show you what is new: ourworldindata.org/redesigning-ou…

Pleasure to have inquisitive students from all over the world attending our hybrid course on Digital and Computational Demography this week, presented by our researchers Aliakbar Akbaritabar, Emilio Zagheni, Tom Theile, Jisu Kim and Risto Conte!

Crazy AF. Paper studies AK and Aran Komatsuzaki paper tweets and finds those papers get 2-3x higher citation counts than control. They are now influencers 😄 Whether you like it or not, the TikTokification of academia is here! arxiv.org/abs/2401.13782

Congratulations and thanks for the acknowledgment! But data availability and methods have improved: Please redo it with full texts from open sources and chatGPT for the country detection🤪 (I'm kidding)

This looks super cool! I did a similar map a few weeks ago: user.demogr.mpg.de/theile/demogra… Datamapplot in its current state might have been great for that. My map loads more data when you zoom in and it shows more labels, but it's not as polished.

Excited to share our new project, long in the making. We analyzed 94,000 news headlines of the last 5 years.🌎Which countries do you think US media is most focused on? Check it out! 1point21interactive.com/the-world-acco…

And here's the same search on OpenAlex. (Took me 10 seconds, and here's the URL URL to reproduce it and see the actual articles: openalex.org/works?page=1&f…)

📣Call for Papers‼️ MPIDR invites submissions from researchers working on or interested in scholarly migration & mobility to attend a one-day symposium in Rostock on Oct 15, 2024. Learn all: demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events… Or get in touch: Ebru Sanliturk Tom Theile Aliakbar Akbaritabar, @[email protected]

"Paths of A Million People: Extracting Life Trajectories from Wikipedia" Paper: arxiv.org/html/2406.0003… Dataset (preview): anonymous.4open.science/r/wiki_life_tr…

Fine, fresh and free data is out! Finally the related paper is published: