What if the Olympic medal table was based on the number of medals won by regions, not by countries? When everybody’s moved by the contagious joy of two athletes making history by agreeing to share an Olympic gold medal, the data analyst thinks: “two gold medals for the same competition? is this going to

Exploring and improving the Aleph stack for journalistic open source research of public documents, regardless of their format or language. A post by Datactivist

Daniela Späth, Eva Lopez, Andy Giefer from Deutsche Welle (DW) present their first experience with AR and Instagram Face Filters — an innovative form of interactive journalism, conducive to highly shareable content.

How might we best tell data-driven stories on social media? A guest post by Eva Lopez, from the data team at Deutsche Welle.

COVID-19 pandemic exposes southern Europe’s nursing shortage Doctors and nurses per capita data are from Eurostat    : in most cases, the figures are from 2017, although in Belgium, Denmark and Sweden, the numbers go back to 2016, and in Finland to 2014. In all cases, we compared the categories of practicing doctors    and practicing nurses    in each country. In some

European mobility in times of coronavirus This application, created by Civio for EDJNet, monitors three parameters daily versus to the usual pre-crises: pedestrian traffic, road traffic and flights. The information focuses only on European capitals. We use three sources: Airports. We use daily traffic data provided by EuroControl, broken down by airport. EuroControl provides the

EDJNet has done a data-driven analysis of rising temperatures in Italy between the 1960s and the 2010s, municipality by municipality. This note highlights the sources, the method and the techniques that were used

What we did and how we did it This article tries to answer a seemingly straightforward question: how easy it is for citizens in Europe to travel by train, and what explains differences within countries? In our attempt to answer this, we wanted to look at two measures – distances to train stations and