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Airline hijackings 1945-2015
ACTUALITEIT - A plane from Egyptian Airlines was hijacked today. Once it was a favorite way of terrorists and other people to get attention or money.
People killed by terrorism per year in Western Europe 1970-2015
ACTUALITEIT - Because of the recent terrorism attacks in Europe we've plotted the GTD data and most recent figures in several graphs for Western Europe.
Evolution of car color in North America since 2000
DATA VAN DE DAG - After publishing our chart on the evolution of the color of cars on the Dutch roads, request came in to do a simular chart for North America. We found the data and created it.
Climate change made tangible
FUN - In a conversation with our daughter the question rose if you could feel the climate change. We explained the changes are very slow and you need a lot of data to actually measure it.
Well... can't you feel the data somehow?
World temperature anomalies for Februari 2016
DATA VAN DE DAG - The combination of global warming and the current El Nino seem to lead to new temperature records for Februari 2016. Now even the satellite series are reporting records, we show them all.
January 2016 sets new record global temperature anomaly
DATA VAN DE DAG - Records were broken last year. But with El Nino still strong, more temperature records will be set this year. And January is the first month doing so.
Historical evolution of the color of family cars on the Dutch roads
In the Netherlands the data on cars currently on the road is available for everyone. Only the owner remains hidden.
With this data we can plot how the color of the family cars changed over time.
Thousand skyscrapers over 200 meters tall
DATA VAN DE DAG - The world now has over a thousand skyscrapers taller than 200 meters. China is leading in numbers, but the tallest is still in Dubai.
Annual salaries government leaders
DATA VAN DE DAG - Even thought it isn't a fair comparison, we put together an overview of the known annual salaries of the leaders of government all over the world.
2015 the hottest year on record worldwide
DATA VAN DE DAG - The world has been warming for some time now. But due to a strong El Nino the warming in 2015 and 2016 will be even higher. How much higher? We show the graphs from the five major surface based measurements sets.