Come Dine With Me: The Dataset 🍽️
Twenty years of dinner party scores show us why male contestants are more likely to win.
From Interesting Data, my Substack about the hidden patterns in everyday life.
Twenty years of dinner party scores show us why male contestants are more likely to win.
A dataset of 47,914 workers doesn’t show left-handed people doing more creative jobs—or more cognitively complex jobs, anyway
Towards a politics of utensils
Data from Spotify suggests that explicit podcasts are far more popular in the English-speaking world
I obviously have no idea. But the data might tell us.
It looks like the kids finally are just saying no. (But a lot of their parents still say yes.)
The slow revolution in marriage since the 1970s.
It’s fairly obvious if you think about it.
The latest data suggests I got carried away four months ago. So let's get carried away in reverse.
UK census data on religion moves in mysterious ways
We know who got the prize money to give to charity, but which contestant actually enhanced their celebrity the most? (with spoilers)
What Wikipedia pageviews tell us about life in the public eye (in a blog without spoilers)
Thanks to everyone who shared and enjoyed my last post about the reasons men and women end up in hospital (including Elon Musk 😆).
In which some stereotypes are resoundingly confirmed
If I chart the similarity of different meats based on the data recorded about them by the US government will it create a map of how they taste?
In which I keep a straight face while wondering whether beaver will soon be eaten as a superfood.
British parents are becoming more tolerant, individualistic, expressive, feminine, multicultural, or something else...
By my calculations, the chance of conceding an equaliser rises by about 14% if you concede the first.
It looks like the number of young bisexual people in the UK has risen about sixfold since 2014. (Pinch of salt alert: this data is very uncertain.)
How and why I made the stupid gif that I hope you can see right under this line...
Fifty-five tales of rise and fall, as told in averaged standardised Uefa league coefficients
Plenty of people are hospitalised by dog bites every year. Plenty of people are hospitalised by lots of things.