Callum TaylorDrinking Myself Under the Table: 6 Months of Drinking DataOver the past six months I have been recording everything that I drink, and I don’t just mean alcohol, I mean everything. I started doing…Aug 25, 2018Aug 25, 2018
Callum TaylorThe World Cup of BirthdaysIn Malcolm Gladwell’s excellent book Outliers he argues that extraordinary success is not only the result of hard work, talent, and…Jun 5, 2018Jun 5, 2018
Callum Taylor10 years of Facebook dataMark Zuckerberg’s appearance in front of the US congress this week coincided with the 10th anniversary of my signing up to Facebook. To…Apr 14, 2018Apr 14, 2018
Callum TaylorA little blog on the Commonwealth’s smallest memberWith the Commonwealth Games starting this week, I wanted to take a look at the smallest competing nation, Niue. Despite having a population…Apr 4, 2018Apr 4, 2018
Callum TaylorRussia is huge, and that’s about the size of it.In a recent blog, I wrote about the world’s largest country in terms of population, China, focusing on how diverse its regions are, and how…Apr 2, 2018Apr 2, 2018
Callum TaylorWhat makes certain countries so good at the Winter Olympics?As you’d expect, it’s not hard to figure out which countries win medals at the Winter Olympics. Figure 1 shows that, with the exception of…Feb 25, 2018Feb 25, 2018
Callum TaylorWhat if Chinese regions were independent countries?Of all the statistics we read about China, most of them fall in to one of two groups: statistics about how big China is, and statistics…Feb 9, 2018Feb 9, 2018
Callum TaylorBoris, Bridges, and BojackBoris Johnson seems to have a thing for bridges. Despite the ordeal of his failed vanity project, the London Garden bridge, he’s now trying…Jan 19, 2018Jan 19, 2018
Callum TaylorPopulation Potential: How many people could live on planet Earth?In recent years the global population of humans has expanded dramatically. This increasing growth in population has been accompanied by a…Jan 7, 2018Jan 7, 2018
Callum TaylorA time of giving? Christmas Spending vs Foreign AidIn 2015 the Dutch banking company ING conducted a survey of spending on Christmas gifts across 14 countries. The results make for…Dec 16, 2017Dec 16, 2017
