Romantic comedy or action movie? While this cliché certainly oversimplifies the differences in movie preferences between men and women, it is common knowledge that certain movie genres primarily target one gender. The colloquial term chick flick refers to movies targeted... »
According to Alexa.com, an Amazon subsidiary that analysis web traffic, YouTube is the world’s most popular social media site. Its user numbers even exceed those of web giants such as Facebook or Wikipedia. Over the past twelve years, YouTube has... »
In this blog post, I would like to share the Yearly Bills of Mortality dataset that I recently generated. The Bills of Mortality were a mortality statistic for London and were first published in the 17th century. Besides the number... »
Today’s blog post is a visualization of traffic collisions in New York City. The New York Police Departmentpublishes information about motor vehicle collisions on the official NYC OpenData platform. The dataset contains nearly one million incidents going back to the... »
In one of my first posts, I wrote about the age difference of movie couples and showed that the male is, on average, slightly older than his partner. The goal of this article is to find out whether there is... »