- steve carufel

The only thing worth knowing about the 2021 federal election results

Thu, 21 Oct 2021 01:18:22 +0000

You might think that the latest general federal election was pointless, and looking at the results it feels like that. Even looking further than the winning seats, there is little change compared to 2019. But there’s been some notable, Canada-wide movement in two of the political parties, the young People’s Party of Canada (PPC), and… Continue reading

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Visualized and Interactive : Over 20 years of revisited video games music thanks to OverClocked Remix

Tue, 03 Aug 2021 14:59:15 +0000

For over 20 years, the OverClocked Remix community and website has been offering today’s and yesterday’s gamers to revisit the music of their favorite video games, be it a cover, a remix, or a rearrangement – for free. How many times The Legend of Zelda was put into jazz? Sonic The Hedgehog into dubstep? Mega… Continue reading

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Of all the James Bond theme songs, which one has the most negative mood?

Sat, 14 Nov 2020 02:13:27 +0000

A text and audio sentiment analysis of all James Bond theme songs, minus the first instrumental one. Which one sounds the saddest?

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Increasingly uncomfortable nights in Montreal?

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 02:39:45 +0000

Do you feel like nighttime has been somewhat less comfortable for sleeping in Montréal in the last few years or so? If we look at the weather data here, showing the lowest temperature observed every day since 1980, this isn’t just you. Looking at those minimum lows, we can see that nights at 20 °C… Continue reading

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How metal are Birmingham and the West Midlands, 50 years later?

Sat, 08 Jun 2019 17:27:38 +0000

A data investigation into Birmingham’s and the West Midlands’ heavy metal scene. The story: https://birminghameastside.com/the-west-midlands-gave-birth-to-heavy-metal-but-50-years-on-how-metal-is-the-region-now/ The GitHub repo for the web scrapers: https://github.com/datacarvel/Brum-Rock

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My story was shortlisted for the Shorthand Awards!

Fri, 22 Feb 2019 14:25:32 +0000

My feature story on VGM (video games music, but remixed, reorchestrated, rearranged, etc.) was shortlisted for the Shorthand Awards, the handy publishing platform I have used for the story! OMG !! My story on #VGM was shortlisted for the @Shorthand Awards !! 😱 🎉 Give it a read ! 👉 https://t.co/A0r76eK4Pi The shortlist 👉 https://t.co/Bzwc2Th4zc… Continue reading

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“Spatiotemporal storytelling” at Le Parisien: how one newspaper is aggregating data to provide a public service

Tue, 09 Oct 2018 01:02:37 +0000

LiveCity is a new data-driven project from Le Parisien that aims to bring together a range of public data sources to serve audiences across its web pages and apps. In a guest post for the Online Journalism Blog, I spoke to Project Director Stanislas de Livonnière about the challenge of aggregating one city’s dispersed open… Continue reading

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Exploring our musical galaxy, a network analysis of the relationship between music genres

Wed, 26 Sep 2018 16:49:24 +0000

Here is my latest story from my short series of long-form features on music evolution! This time, we’re talking about music genres and how they interact with each other to form new genres. We also address the increasing role of robots 🤖 in all aspects of music, and how statistics and machine learning can reveal… Continue reading

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Your childhood, remixed: an immersive guide for the newcomers

Fri, 21 Sep 2018 18:53:07 +0000

I wrote a feature story on the art of remixing your childhood’s video games scores, something that has been around for a while but benefited from much more traction recently, as licensed, professionalised record labels are now bringing it to the mainstream. As a bonus, it will either make you feel better or more productive… Continue reading

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World Cup 2018 clubs compared on 3 statistics associated with winning

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 07:45:06 +0000

A 2012 study finds that 3 statistics are the attacking variables associated the most with winning. Castellano, Casamichana and Carlos Lago showed that ball possession, the total number of shots, and the total number of shots on target were the most crucial attacking statistics associated with higher odds of winning. So I scraped data from… Continue reading

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