I am a professional economist and I find this interesting. It's more of a topic of discussion amongst economists. Why is this? What causes this? I'll be happy to discuss possible reasons, but emphasize I will not engage in politics.
N = 13,599. Data from the General Social Survey (https://gss.norc.org/) showed that more frequent religious service attendance is associated with lower rates of marital infidelity.
Gradient equates to Δ between consecutive days.
Millions of voters in the world's largest democracy have been left out of the electoral roll, or asked to prove they belong on it, through the Special Intensive Revision (SIR).
Back home in Delhi, 55.6% of voters (>8 million voters) on the pre-SIR roll were either left out of the draft roll published on 31 August or sent a notice in the list published on 19 September.
Here are three maps that show the SIR's impact on Delhi's voters at the level of each polling station.
I'll keep mapping this as events unfold, and I post the maps on Instagram at @mapsareinstruments. This is my very first post here so be kind and respectfull in your feedback.
Thanks!
October 10 was another dark day for our democracy. It was impossible to get to Jantar Mantar as Delhi was turned into a war zone. Absolute horror from watching the events unfold.
I made these maps covering the railway and metro closures that were put in place yesterday to stop people from coming to the CJP-led protest at Jantat Mantar at 10am.
Every metro station inside a 45m walking distance to Jantar Mantar was shut to stop people from gathering.
I will keep covering this from a spatial lens as long as I can
Data source: kamarvo.com, a used camera price tracker I built. It follows listings and sales at 10 camera shops in 6 countries. Used prices are from recent sales where there are enough of them (filled dots) and otherwise from asking prices (hollow dots); every model has at least 5. Launch prices are US list prices at launch from Sharply, converted to euros at the ECB rate with 21% VAT added. The dashed line is an exponential fit to all 63 bodies.
Tools: Python and matplotlib.
Imagine the United States as a flat board with every person the same weight. The point where the board would balance is the "center of population." In 1790 it was near Baltimore. Over 230 years it moved 877 miles west and 128 miles south, to the Missouri Ozarks. The Census Bureau finds this point every 10 years.
Legend:
In 1950, almost one in four children worldwide died before their fifth birthday. In Africa, one in three children died.
The chart shows the change since then. In every region, the mortality rate of children has declined.
In Africa and Oceania, the child mortality rate declined 5-fold, in Asia 10-fold, and in Europe about 27-fold.
Progress was not always steady. The sharp spike in Asia around 1960 was due to the “Great Leap Forward” famine in Mao’s China, the deadliest famine in recorded history.
And the progress is far from finished. The global average has declined to 3.5%, but this still means that about 4.7 million children younger than five years died in 2025 — 13,000 children every single day.
Data source: UN, World Populations Prospects (2024)
Tools used: Python, OWID Grapher, Figma
