We estimate China will lose nearly 60 million people in the next decade, almost the size of France. The impact on household consumption is obvious, but the larger problem for Beijing may be the hit to social security funds.
Feb 3 2025: "Despite plans for restructuring, Rubio said the United States would remain the 'most generous nation on Earth.' "
2025 ODA statistics: Germany has overtaken US as largest donor.
Sad.
Official development assistance (ODA) by Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members was USD 174.3 billion in 2025, a 23.1% decrease over 2024.
Initial estimates were down 9 to 17%, reality unfortunately even worse.
www.oecd.org/en/data/insi...
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” is a great expression
Today I’m pleased to share that the unicefData R package is now available on CRAN, providing direct programmatic access to the UNICEF Data Warehouse.
📦 CRAN
cran.r-project.org/package=unicef…
#OpenData #OfficialStatistics #RStats #DataForChildren #ReproducibleResearch
As a guy who spent over a year negotiating / cajoling / fighting with MA utilities to create standard interconnection rules for non-utility power - this is a really big deal. www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
A worldmap of the spatial distribution of extracted flood events in the Groundsource dataset. The map displays the total number of flood events extracted by the LLM-based pipeline aggregated per grid cell. The data are visualized using a Robinson projection, with event counts represented by a logarithmic color scale. Red points indicate the spatial centroids of reference flood events from the GDACS database.
Excited to announce Groundsource - an open-source dataset of historic flood events! This has easily been one of the coolest projects I've worked on recently!
Thread 🧵 for details and all relevant links. 1/n
long stretch of worked roman stone on Hadrian's Wall.
If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it.
Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22
Nett hier. Aber waren Sie schon mal in einem Land, das einen Bahnhof in der geplanten Bauzeit fertig kriegt?
Frage:
As a rare climate scientist working in Silicon Valley, I've been drinking from the AI firehose a lot more than my peers. I thought it would be helpful to lay out my experiences of both the promise and pitfalls of using AI to accelerate scientific research:
Deep breath.
I'm honored and excited to join the faculty of America's oldest research university, Johns Hopkins.
I'll start this summer as a full professor, one of the founding faculty at the brand-new School of Government and Policy.
We're building something unique & important, even historic.
As with all things transportation and urban design, planning for the most vulnerable makes things better for everyone usa.streetsblog.org/2026/01/15/a...
HUGE moment for the EU car market as battery EVs overtake petrol cars for the first time ever
But there's no "natural" demand for EVs amirite?
Article by @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...
Cool, thanks! I appreciate the insight. I need to keep an eye out for good battery options
Nice, what's the setup? I'm obviously too late to do anything about it for this storm but have wanted to invest in some backup capacity for a while
Bar chart Title: Best sources for women's soccer data Subtitle: Women's competitions with xG Data | 8 comps surveyed Chart shows # of comps on y-axis. Only FBref scored 8/8. Next closest is Fotmob at 4.
In the wake of FBref's defacto death, I saw a lot of posts suggesting alternate data sources. Unfortunately, many of them focus exclusively on men's soccer. To measure what options remain for woso, I conducted a survey of the most popular FBref alternatives. What I found is disappointing:
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🥁 India Is Electrifying Faster Than China 🥁
Read our story on @ember-energy.org's analysis. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Bar chart of percentage of population aged 25-64 that can't speak a foreign language. UK is at the top. The chart design is confusing to say the least.
I saw this chart in the wild a few days ago and it's been on my mind because the longer I look at it, the more confused I become by it. 📊
I'm fairly sure it's AI generated for a few reasons...
A #DataViz thread 🧵
My favorite evidence that congestion pricing in New York has reshaped peoples’ behavior: we can see a surge of people trying to enter the zone before the price kicks up at 5 a.m., and after it decreases at 9 p.m.
A table of YouGov polling data with the headline: "How your reading habits compare to other Americans." The chart has the sub-headline: "About how many books have you read or listened to so far in 2025? (% of U.S. adult citizens)."
NEW: How many books did you read this year? If it was more than 2, congrats: you read more than the median American.
Read on for way more @today.yougov.com polling from me on America's book-reading habits in 2025. 1/
Cracking analogy indeed!
good idea!
Kīlauea is erupting! 🌋 Here’s a link to one of the three @USGS live cams - enjoy! www.youtube.com/live/tk0tfYD...
I was intrigued to see which two of the Vatican’s ten Raphael tapestries were chosen for today’s unprecedented service in the Sistine Chapel. The tapestries are very rarely shown - was Pope Leo XIV conveying any message in the choice?
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Haven't seen this yet in the thread, so meander or just sit somewhere (among trees or on the grass) in the English Garden in Munich.
My talk is now online! You can watch it here:
