A web application based on EPA (Economically Active Population Survey) data to calculate the unemployment rate affecting the Spanish population, segmented by province, age and sex. It uses EPA microdata, filtering and aggregating them before the most relevant variables are selected to determine which unemployment rate affects a person depending on their ...

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Before email, the world of scholarship relied on its own networks, which facili- tated the dissemination and criticism of ideas and the spread of political news, as well as the circulation of people and objects. But what did these networks actually look like? This project develops interactive visualisation tools based on the correspondence between thinker...

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This video compares Usain Bolt, current world record holder in the men’s 100 metres, with medallists in the race from 116 years of Olympic Games. This visualisation compares the podium scores in this race over the course of all the Games, creating an enormous track that brings them all together. The video shows where each runner would be when Bolt finishe...

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In Stranger Visions the artist creates sculptures of human faces based on ge- netic material that she obtains from objects, such as chewing gum, cigarette butts, etc., that she collects from public places. The extraction of DNA from these samples allows her, via a computer program, to associate the genetic segments with certain physical traits, creating 3...

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The Bloomberg Billionaires index, which launched in 2012 and tracks the 300 richest people worldwide, saw a $524 billion increase in wealth during 2013 alone. Bloomberg has a dedicated team of billionaire hunters constantly upda- ting information on the world’s richest people. Since last December, the top 100 billionaires’ net worth has soared from $200...

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