- 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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“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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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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Scientific journals are (still) getting (more) expensive (than ever) – but the UK has an opportunity to make a statement

Tue, 29 May 2018 11:19:17 +0000

For quite a while now I have been submitting and managing Freedom of Information requests to more than a hundred universities in the United Kingdom. While the issue around ever-skyrocketing costs of scholarly journals subscriptions isn’t news, I wanted to see whether, since the topic went in the mainstream, the awareness around it had any… Continue reading

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These are the football clubs that have been fined for underpaying employees

Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:37:42 +0000

Birmingham City FC has been fined for breaking national minimum wage laws, newly released data reveals. The local club is part of a group of four that have been identified in the latest analysis by the Department for Business and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The three others are St Helens RFC, Stoke City FC and Yeovil… Continue reading

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Interactive: Pyeongchang 2018’s athletic composition by discipline, country and genre

Sat, 10 Feb 2018 15:53:41 +0000

See below to explore in this Tableau dataviz which country sent how many athletes, by discipline and genre to Pyeongchang 2018. There are three parts to this chart on the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics. The first one lets you see the general picture by country in absolute numbers. You can also select a specific discipline,… Continue reading

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In the UK, data journalism and investigations are getting more local

Sat, 23 Dec 2017 17:13:25 +0000

I was fortunate enough to attend Data Journalism UK 2017, the event’s second edition. The conference was held at the BBC in Birmingham. Among other things, a significant insight was that data and investigative journalism are now much more interested in local stories than ever before. Typically, ground-breaking investigations and data stories are developed with… Continue reading

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