Do Airbnbs change hands?
The title is a rhetorical question, as yes, yes they do. For this newsletter the focus is still on our touristic data work - I’m bringing you the newest...
How widespread are the biggest Airbnb hosts?
Ahoy! This time I come at you with a new - it’s been a while - hand-drawn dataviz. It’s still about the current major data project I’m working on with my...
The Airbnb market is becoming more concentrated
In this edition, we are looking at the Airbnb market in Italy for our work on measuring the impact of overtourism. As a follow-up from last time when we...
A new project: overtourism data
It’s been a while, I know! This is a quick one to let you know that I’ve started a new data project, with my dear friend Bernardo, this time focused on...
Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, first black woman to found a university
Elizabeth Evelyn Wright was the first black woman to found a place of high education in the USA: Voorhees University, South Carolina, 1897. Voorhees...
We made an agent
You can also read this on my blog. Creating AI agents is every techie's favourite pastime these days, so me and my friend also made one. It aims at aiding...
Building myself a tool to summarise AI papers with Gemini
I struggle to read all the papers that appear about AI, so I thought LLMs can help me. So, yesterday I spent some time building myself a proto-tool (it's...
Gambling, probability and Bernoulli trials
It is remarkable that a science which began with the consideration of games of chance should have become the most important object of human knowledge....
German verbs & AI thoughts
I managed to write quite a lot for my standards during this xmas break! Here’s a new data story, plus some more links at the bottom. Initials of German verbs...
Italy's environmental fragility & some books
A data card on environmental EU funds spent by population in Italy
Paris 2024 has started and more on EU projects
Cohesion projects of the EU in Italy I’ve recently done a new data card for the project AwareEU where I’m looking at data from the Cohesion funds of the EU....
The EU Cohesion Policy, plus Dublin's tragic story with typhoid
The EU data & the viz I’ve just published a new blog (and a new card, see below) about the funds that the EU invests in each regions for growth and...
Low emission bus fleets in Europe
Dear subscribers, hope you’re enjoying the late spring - it’s torrentially rainy here in Edinburgh (with moderate flooding events too) with few opportunities...
Another card on Italian food
So, I told you last time that I’d be using the same data for multiple cards - here goes, a new one following-up from my previous, that still focuses on main...
Italian food - ingredients in data
This post is about food. I've done a new data card - it took me a while between finding the data and displaying it, but the good thing is I have done a...
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Artificial neurons and logical tables
A post on artificial neurons, which are somewhat the basis of neural networks, themselves the basis of artificial intelligence! The topic is of course long,...
Quick question on what you like on Doodling Data
Hey all, As per the snippet above this newsletter started with my "data doodles", which are and will keep being its core part. However, in time I started...
The most frequently used keys in Classical era music
📺 Watch my short talk with TalkPython about my data cards, where I showed and talked through a bunch of them! Onto the card now. I was interested in looking...
Doodling Data will chat to TalkPython
Hello all, this is just a very short communication to let y'all know that I'll be chatting to Michael Kennedy of Talk Python (great podcast if you don't know...
A journey through Caravaggio's colours, in data
Michelangelo Merisi, known universally as Caravaggio, is undeniably one of the most accomplished artists ever existed. Born in Milan in the second half of...