‘Sinistra/Insieme’ ha 44 seggi nel Sejm, il Parlamento polacco Davanti all’attacco russo contro l’Ucraina, il Consiglio Nazionale della Sinistra Insieme condanna con forza le azioni di Vladimir Putin, di governo, parlamento, comandante delle Forze Armate della Federazione Russa e il regime obbediente di Alexander Lukashenko. …

Misinformation is not preventing French people from getting COVID-vaccinated — This story is part of my newsletter DaNumbers. Click here to know more (and to subscribe — for free). BRUSSELS — Is the media overestimating the campaign against the Green Pass? …

A data-driven dive into the *mythical* relationship between democracy and development. — This story is part of my newsletter DaNumbers. Click here to know more (and to subscribe — for free). BRUSSELS — For more the 60 years, we lived under the assumption that democracy was the magic wand capable of bringing welfare and stability to the countries where it flourished. This…

Data suggest that Europe is pushing migrants southwards where they just can’t stop dying. — This story is part of my newsletter DaNumbers. Click here to know more (and to subscribe — for free). BRUSSELS — Before the April 23 tragedy, in the Mediterranean 421 people had already lost their life since January 1, 2021. That number now is now above 551, given that last…

As Italy reaches 100,000 deaths, here a handy tutorial on how the NYT’s data team could have made its standard-setting front page data visualization. — The New York Times set a new standard (again) in data visualization a few weeks ago. They practically invented a new chart (which from now on I will call ‘static noise chart’) to visualize victims from the pandemic. They decomposed fatalities data in points where each point represents a dead…

A Games Theory application says no. — Will the Republican Party split in two during the Biden administration? No, no and (again) no. The problem is very simple: there is a huge divide between Republican and Democrats but, more importantly, the party is too loyal to Donald Trump. More importantly, according to a cluster analysis of FiveThirtyEight’s…

Notes from a partially successful experiment — In 2019, the RayShader R package hit CRAN with the promise of being a gamechanger. The promise was kept, in facts, it is a gamechanger. But the problem is that it just might be ahead of its time. I have just finished an experiment. …

We know restrictions are effective but we just don’t know how much — Three days after Boris Johnson’s announcement of the new English harsh lockdown, it is increasingly harder to policymakers to justify such measures. In facts, they are useful, but unfortunately, they are not the only way to prevent the spread of the pandemic. …

An R exercise offers mixed results. — Although the answer to the question ‘What do migrants run away from?’ might look obvious, the answer, in strict data terms, might not be so. That’s why I ran this exercise. So, what do migrants run away from? In this post, I assume that the answer is war. We have…