Hungary votes this Sunday. Three parties, each with a starkly different vision for the country's future.
Edit Zgut-Przybylska helped us analyse party programmes, compare positions across five key areas, and outline possible scenarios after the election.
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Text: Mehrere Jahre hintereinander sah es so aus, als würde sich die deutsche Wirtschaft erholen. Jetzt treibt ein neuer Krieg Öl- und Gaspreise nach oben. Damit steigen auch die Risiken für die Konjunktur, Inflation und Investitionen. Foto: Digitale Anzeige der Kraftstoffpreise in roten Ziffern an einer Tankstelle
Die deutsche Wirtschaft steht vor „Ungewissheiten und großen Risiken“. Vieles hängt jetzt von der Lage im Nahen Osten ab. #Iran Warum Energieflüsse und Infrastruktur entscheidend sind, erklärt Sebastian Dullien von unserem IMK im Podcast.
🎧 www.boeckler.de/de/p...
Over 100 million people have benefited from improved social protection coverage through @ilo's support.
Behind these numbers are real lives changed, people better able to retire with dignity, access healthcare & support their families in times of crisis.
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Russia can probably continue waging war for the foreseeable future. But every additional year at this altitude raises systemic risk: of fiscal crisis, of institutional breakdown, of damage so severe that no post-war policy can repair it.
scholar: analyzes
scholar with potential influence on my career: powerfully analyzes
Britains new Employment Rights Act will significantly increase power resources of its trade unions
economist.com/britain/2026...
Tableau dashboard combining economic, social and safety indicators across 20 Central and South American countries. Colombia is highlighted, with other countries visible for regional context.
See the below post for more information:
www.linkedin.com/posts/marcre...
#colombia #dataviz #tableau 📊
👀 New blog post! 👀
Ever made a *spaghetti* line chart and wondered how you can make it more accessible and more aesthetically pleasing at the same time? 📈
Read this blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/accessi...
#DataViz #RStats
A picture is worth 1000 words...
This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.
Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.
Chapeau!
1. Maduro is not a good guy by any stretch of the imagination.
2. But capturing him through an extra-legal action that violates international law undermines any US credibility with Russia in Ukraine and China with Taiwan.
3. We have a terrible history with topping leaders without a post-war plan.
All three statements are true at the same time—
Fun fact:
"U.S. and United Nations drug data, however, show that Venezuela isn't a producer or exporter of fentanyl, a lab-made synthetic opioid, and that it plays a relatively minor role in the far-less-lethal cocaine trade."
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European governments are beginning to respond to warnings about the possibility of a war with Russia. But few of the continent’s western countries have anything comparable to the war readiness of the Nordics, Baltics and Poland
Just in time before the end of the year: My first dissertation paper, in which I examine whether the public response to rising income inequality is really lacking, has officially been published in the latest issue of the Socio-Economic Review #SER.
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space duck! no need to tell me more
“Over the past decade, while the United States ramped up fossil fuel exports, China has focused on dominating renewables. Today, Chinese companies make so many of the world’s solar panels, electric vehicles and batteries that they are slashing prices and scrambling to find buyers.” Gift link:
Line chart of Google search interest for “Christmas gift wife” and “Christmas gift husband” from November 18 to December 24. Bold lines show the average pattern across 2020–2024, while lighter shaded lines represent individual years. Shaded areas highlight which term has higher search interest at each point in time. The chart shows that searches for gifts for wives peak later in December than searches for gifts for husbands.
🎄 Hope you’ve got all your presents ready 💝
Google search interest shows a stable pattern:
🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve
🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier
#MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁
📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024)
#dataviz #ggplot2
What an amazing way to visualize early human migration. Lovely map by @HarvardCGA. A great colour scheme and an appropriate map projection! Source: buff.ly/3lbxonJ
"40 percent of MRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity"; "Since tens of thousands of fMRI studies worldwide are based on this assumption, our results could lead to opposite interpretations in many of them.”
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🧵1/12: Russia’s economy hasn’t collapsed, but it is suffering immensely. It still runs, but only because the central bank keeps it alive with constant REPO liquidity. What was once emergency support is now the daily operating system.
📷: @evgen-istrebin.bsky.social
I've put together my predictions for 2026 and 2027 temperatures over at The Climate Brink. I expect 2026 will likely end up similar to 2023 and 2025 at ~1.4C, while 2027 will likely be considerably warmer (conditional on El Nino): www.theclimatebrink....
In nur 5 Jahren hat China den Automobilmarkt übernommen und ist uns parallel beim E-Auto davon gerast.
Dass Kanzler Merz allen ernstes davon spricht, dass wir 2035 noch "hocheffiziente Verbrenner" verkaufen, macht es noch verrückter.
One of the world’s most famous fertility rate charts must be this one. China is now down to one child per woman on average.
Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
Our visual guide to how a bust that rivals the dotcom era could wipe out 8% of Americans’ household wealth
🔴New Article🔴 by Kerem Gabriel Öktem & Lutz Leisering: "Emerging social assistance regimes in middle income countries: Turkey in comparative perspective" @journals.sagepub.com @sagepub.com #socialassistance #socialpolicy #globalsocialpolicy #sociology
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Every year Gallup, a pollster, asks people in more than 140 countries how they felt the day before they were surveyed. Our charts break down the data
I don’t do beauty sleep I am hibernating through the collapse of the global order
