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Exposing The World’s Superrich: GDP, Gender, And Political Ties

Exposing The World’s Superrich: GDP, Gender, And Political Ties

The Peterson Institute for International Economics compiled one of the most extensive datasets yet on over 2000 billionaires from all over…
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Caspar EgasMar 24

Choosing A VPN? Be Careful! Here’s Why.

Virtual Private Networks are a way to access the Internet in a more secure way. More and more people rely on VPNs to stay anonymous online…, to avoid Internet censorship, access geo-restricted content and try to escape surveillance. In some cases, protected access to the Internet can even be a matter of life or death, as with many activists and human rights defenders. For these reasons, it’s important to know what a VPN can and can’t protect you from. And it’s also important to know that not all VPNs are equal and, while they can enhance privacy, there’s no real guarantee anonymity.
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Alice CoronaFeb 2
Latest Data Reveals the Actual Size of The Gender Gap at the Academy Awards

Latest Data Reveals the Actual Size of The Gender Gap at the Academy Awards

A data-driven analysis of gender representation in 88 years of Oscars
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Alice CoronaFeb 24
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Hack Your Career: How to Use Data to Monitor Job Markets

Hack Your Career: How to Use Data to Monitor Job Markets

I recently gave a tutorial on how monitor job markets by scraping data from AngelList and pushing it into the data publishing platform Silk…
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Alice CoronaJan 26
Analyzing Tesla’s Supercharger Locations

Analyzing Tesla’s Supercharger Locations

As one of the earlier execs at PayPal, entrepreneur Elon Musk understands the value of networks and how to solve the “Chicken-and-Egg…
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AlexSalkeverJan 18
Number of U.S. drone strike victims in Pakistan: 2,500–4000. Number of Fair Trials: 0

Number of U.S. drone strike victims in Pakistan: 2,500–4000. Number of Fair Trials: 0

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Alice CoronaJan 7

Open Data Lost Ground in 2015: An Analysis of the 2015 OKFN Open Data Index

The Open Knowledge Foundation just published the 2015 edition of its Open Data Index. The Index “provides the most comprehensive snapshot…
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Alice CoronaDec 23, 2015

Latest Google Cars Crash Report

First accident reported since August but Google’s robot drivers maintain a spotless no-fault record. In the latest incident, a human rear…
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Alice CoronaDec 10, 2015
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