585: quantum of sollazzo
#585: quantum of sollazzo – 26 November 2024
The data newsletter by @puntofisso.
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✨ Topical
News influencers lean right
Axios: "News influencers — people with at least 100,000 followers on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X or YouTube who regularly post about current events — are more likely to identify with the political right than the left, a new study from the Pew Knight Initiative found."
Mike Tyson Fights Against Age
Flowing Data's Nathan Yau: "The 58-year-old Mike Tyson fought the 27-year-old Jake Paul, likely wrapping up Tyson’s boxing career that started in 1985 when he was 18. Given the big age difference in the final fight, I wondered the age of past Tyson opponents. This is the timeline, based on data from Wikipedia and BoxerList."
Diversity in the composition of the new European Parliament
"While the June elections have changed the composition of the Strasbourg assembly, the gender and generational distribution still does not reflect the reality of European citizens."
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🛠️📖 Tools & Tutorials
SVG To Font
"Read a set of SVG icons and ouput a TTF/EOT/WOFF/WOFF2/SVG font, Generator of fonts from SVG icons."
Speaking of fonts, if you want to choose one by looks, this game will help.
SQL Style Guide
Reactive HTML notebooks
The author says: "I don't think HTML is being used enough as a platform for scientific publishing."
Enjoy the journey. And the geeky discussion on HackerNews.
Tips for data entry in Excel
Believe me, you might need this tutorial at some point :-)
"Research projects often involve some form of data entry. Even if you’re not collecting paper forms that require your team to manually enter the responses (e.g., paper surveys collected in the field need to be manually entered), you’re often still entering some sort of internal record keeping information (e.g., who are our consented participants, what is their contact information, what are their assigned study IDs, what data have we collected on them). There are many reasons that it is typically preferred to enter this information into a database management system (e.g., FileMaker, Microsoft Access, Airtable, LibreOffice Base, Quick Base) as opposed to a spreadsheet, such as Microsoft Excel. While both spreadsheets and databases hold tabular data, there are several benefits to entering data into a database as opposed to a spreadsheet."
Building Reproducible Analytical Pipelines
Bruno Rodrigues' course companion for the 2024 Master of Data Science at University of Luxembourg. It's based on R.
🤯 Data thinking
Data as an assembly line
The Analytics Engineering podcast (and transcript): "Cedric Chin runs Commoncog—a publication about accelerating business expertise. He joins Tristan to talk about the analytics development lifecycle, how organizations value (or misvalue) data, and why “data teams are not some IT helpdesk to be ignored.”"
📈Dataviz, Data Analysis, & Interactive
What are the fastest-growing professions in America?
USAFacts: "Wind turbine service technician is the fastest-growing occupation in the country; the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects open roles for the job could grow 60% by 2033."
Travel in times
A historical journey planner, including by stagecoach and horseback. Because you really need one. Jokes aside, it's an interesting research project.
(via Steve Parks)
Most European countries do not meet UN criteria for investigating deaths in police custody
"Between 2020 and 2022, 13 EU countries, including Spain, France and Germany recorded at least 488 deaths in custody or in police operations."
New York’s slow (noisy, polluted) road to congestion pricing
Rose Mintzer-Sweeney (Datawrapper): "It would be hard to summarize, and maybe hard to believe, the proposals, counterproposals, approvals, reversals, lawsuits, protests, environmental assessments, and general political wrangling that make up the story of congestion pricing in New York City. And all this for a policy that has never actually been in force."
Visualizing 13 million BlueSky users
This explains how it was made, but there's also an interactive version which doesn't work with non-Chromium browsers.
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