The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Italian mobility
Photo by David T on UnsplashThe pandemic of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) triggered by the SARS-CoV-2…
Francesco Finazzi and Alessandro FassòApril 16, 2020
You can trust the polls in 2018, if you read them carefully
On the morning of 8 November 2016, many Americans went to bed confident that Hillary…
Visualising regional data using the geofacet R package
Spatial data make an enormous contribution to our understanding of the world. They allow us to…
Stella Cangelosi, Luciana Dalla Valle and Julian StanderAugust 25, 2017
Tinkering with how we measure child poverty won’t help end it
There has been no real change in the proportion of children living in poverty in…
Jonathan BradshawJuly 1, 2015
(Un)representative democracy: where are all the female candidates?
Image: Catherine Bebbington/Parliamentary Copyright. Parliamentary Copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament.In a…
Mario Cortina BorjaApril 25, 2015
What does it take to win a tennis major?
Prior to his epic collapse in the semis, I went to the US Open to…
Ilan ManSeptember 19, 2014
DWTS voting system needs a makeover
On October 14, Christina Milian stood under the spotlight with the threat of elimination during…
Stephanie KovalchikNovember 14, 2013
The music that is better than itself
In the 1930s, Pitirim A. Sorokin and J.W. Boldyreff conducted the most interesting experiment1. They…
Mikhail SimkinOctober 28, 2013
A short overview of the Phillips Curve
In modern economics, central banks around the world have become engrossed in closely monitoring the…
Michael MernaghAugust 21, 2013
