Recently, Gallup released its first global poll since 2018 on adults’ preference for migrating to other countries, based on data collected in 2021. They found that 16 percent of adults sought to migrate, the highest figure in 10 years, despite the barriers. to migration. growth caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Our weekly NodeXL and human selection of top popular knowledge journalism stories on Twitter will also offer new tactics to address an incredibly varied variety of topics, adding the epic lies of a U. S. congressman. Investigation of Brazilian coup plotters and interactive graph of snowfall.
A Gallup poll on global preference for migration found that in 2021, the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of others wanting to leave their home countries reached its highest point in a decade: nearly 900 million worldwide. 12 countries, adding two in Europe, more than a part of the population would move if they could. The most coveted destination remains, as in years past, the United States.
– Donna Leinwand Léger (@DonnaLeinwand) January 31, 2023
George Santos, a Republican, was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives. Soon after, journalists discovered an ordinary record of the lies he committed, ranging from where he worked, the schools he attended, his devoted background, and even the death of his mother. A graphic from The Washington Post tracked the adjustments and removals on the “Aton his crusade” website, comparing text from November 2020, when he presented his first candidacy, to November 2022, when he was elected, to January 2023, when many of the lies were revealed in the media.
– Kate Rabinowitz (@dataKateR) January 27, 2023
An interactive survey conducted through Süddeutsche Zeitung and Bavarian public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk analyzed the records of 681 apple growers in South Tyrol, northern Italy, and revealed the amount of insecticides used in apple cultivation. The body of knowledge presented new data on apple cultivation in the EU, where such knowledge is sometimes not publicly available. Among other data, the team found that a single orchard was sprayed an average of 38 times per season, between March and September, and in rare cases up to 50 times.
– Steffen Kühne (@stekhn) January 25, 2023
In March 2022, the Russian military captured the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, as well as its satellite city, Energodar. Ukrainian data site Texty and the Zaporizhzhia Research Center reconstructed the events that took place before and the profession. A data visualization modeled as a calendar by month, covering February to December 2022, shows the chronology of city capture and occupation, and maps key events and moments. These incidents come with Russian bombing, local resistance, the arrival of the IAEA project, and data control.
— Roman Kulchynskyj (@RomanKulchynsky) January 26, 2023
An Axios visual storytelling team set out to find out how pickup trucks in the U. S. are going to be in the U. S. UU. se have become so giant, in length and popularity, by analyzing various datasets related to Americans’ love affair with the vehicle. Among the discoveries: Originally a “workaholic vehicle,” more people now use their vans to buy groceries and buy groceries than for transportation and towing. They also looked at adjustments to the length and design of pickup trucks over 40 years, how fatal they are in collisions and more. Will Chase shared the procedure for the piece and its 3-d animation in a tweet thread.
– Will Chase (@W_R_Chase) January 23, 2023
GIJN member Indiaspend relied on official government knowledge about the deaths and injuries of factory employees in India. Between 2017 and 2020, an annual average of 1109 deaths and more than 4000 injuries were recorded. The journalists analyzed the issues surrounding those office accidents and added violations, lack of factory inspections and underreporting due to collusion between businesses, hospitals and law enforcement officials.
— Shreya Raman (@shreyaraman18) January 24, 2023
Hundreds of others were arrested in Brazil last month for raiding and vandalizing government buildings in an effort to oust the current president. At the request of fact-checking online site Agência Lupa, knowledge intelligence firm Lagom Data learned about and analyzed the profiles of another 131 people arrested in connection with the coup attempt. Among their findings: Many detainees stick to the Twitter accounts of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and far-right politicians. Also, don’t miss the dataset published by Fiquem Sabendo, a member of GIJN, which shows purchases made the use of Bolsonaro’s corporate card his mandate.
– Agência Lupa (@agencialupa) January 24, 2023
Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia, is known to suffer terrible levels of smog. The news site 24. kg analyzed data on air pollutants from December 2022 and the first part of January 2023 and found that, for most of the days observed, there is no option to breathe fresh, unpolluted air.
– Maria Orlova (@Marijka_kg) January 24, 2023
Major cities on the East Coast of the United States have experienced some of their seasons with less snow over the past 50 years. Weather replacement will likely mean later snowfall and heavy snowfall triggered by major storms. The New York Times created an interactive whiteboard that allows readers to compare the amount of snow in 57 towns across the country over 50 years.
– Hannah Recht (@hannah_recht) January 27, 2023
The Wall Street Journal analyzed the overlap between workplace blockbusters and Best Picture nominated films at the Oscars over 4 decades. He found that in the 80s and 90s, there were more blockbuster films competing for the Oscar for Best Picture, but this overlapping trend began. to decline in the early 2000s.
– Herb Scribner (@HerbScribner) January 25, 2023
Eunice Au is the leader of GIJN’s global team. Previously, he was a Malaysian correspondent for Singapore’s Straits Times and a journalist for Malaysia’s New Straits Times. He has also written for The Sun, Malaysian Today and Madam Chair.
Alexa van Sickle is an associate editor at GIJN. Previously, she was editor of the foreign correspondence magazine Roads and Kingdoms. She was also editor of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and editor of a foreign non-profit law organization in London. . He lives in Vienna, Austria.
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