A few weeks ago we had a heatwave and we were thinking if the hotter a place the poorer it is. We could collect data to test our hypothesis thanks to the recent advances in open data and scraping technologies.
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We love reading news but who’s got the time to read ALL articles? Luckily, the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone, GDELT for short, scrapes tons of news articles and other sources of information. And yes, you can access their data via an API or very convenient Python and R SDKs.
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We made a graphic summary of our latest post, How to treat your robot? Inspired by The Pudding and sites telling stories using data and other unconventional tools, we made a short graphic teaser to our post. As usual, we used open source tools. This time the entire graphic work was made in GIMP, images were converted to JPEG format with ImageMagick and the text was written with the free Classic Robot Font.
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City names in Hungary are like lego parts. You can put together two ore more words almost freely and get an existing city name. However one can easily discover some pattern of the names, i.e. their reasonable proportion ends with the same word. Our project aims to map the most frequent endings of the municipality names of Hungary.
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Who has not ever wondered about the interplay between art and artificial intelligence? Here we share our thoughts on how art can help us to shed light on various aspects of scientific knowledge, how cognitive science serves as a bridge between art and science, and what the limitations of visualization techniques are.
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Who does not dream about living in the best country of the globe? But what counts the best? There are various factors, along which countries can be compared. Countries are ranked on the basis of their GDP, the well-being of their citizens, the level of their inhabitants’ freedom and on many more. Our research aims to come up with a top list of the countries, which amalgamates more aspects of ranking. This goal is achieved with rank aggregation.
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Classic, trendy, or unique? How do parents name their babies? Are those surnames popular these days that were in the 2000s? Here come some trends about surnames given to newborns in Hungary. (For a better user experience, please view the post on desktop).
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The population of Hungary has been decreasing since the 1980s. How does this change affect the rural and urban areas? What is the ratio of males and females in the municipalities of Hungary? Our project aims to answer these and similar questions by illustrating tendencies of the population change regarding each municipality of the country, city size, and sex.
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