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November 2015 Climate Marches mapped
DATA VAN DE DAG - In the weekend of the 28th and 29th of November 2015 in more than 2000 cities worldwide people marched to ask for more action to prevent climate change, just before the Climate Change conference in Paris, COP21, started.
Google data on URLs removed for EU "Right to be forgetten"
DATA VAN DE DAG - In 2014 the EU court of justice ruled that search engines have to remove URLs from their results is individuals ask them to and if there's no public interest to keep the URLs.
Google reports on the number of requests and number of URLs removed. Total requests (URLs) till November 26th 2015: 1.235.473.
Tracking 2 degree global warming limit
DATA VAN DE DAG - In climate negotiations since Cancun in 2009 the statement "keep below 2 degrees above pre-industrial level for the year 2100" is used. We trying to quantify this using the available data.
Islamic terrorism in Western Europe
AANVRAAG DATA - For facilitating discussion per request the terrorist attacks in Western Europe between 1970 and 2014 were split between Islamic and other groups. The number of Islamic terrorist attacks is low, the number of people killed by it are high the last 10 years.
Price sending a domestic letter in different European countries 2002-2016
DATA VAN DE DAG - The postal services are being privatised in Europa. And at the same time people send less letters. The postal services react with raising the price for stamps.
Number of deaths in conflicts and wars between Israel and Palestine since 1987
AANVRAAG DATA - For a media organization we gathered all available data on the number of deaths over the years in the conflicts between Israel and Palestine.
Yearly growth of new firearms in the United States
DATA VAN DE DAG - In the US it is not recorded how many firearms are sold. To get a good estimate we combined production-, export- and import data. In 2013 a record 16 million firearms were brought on the market in the United States.
Mass shootings in the USA 2013-2015
DATA VAN DE DAG - After another mass shooting in Oregon, USA, this week we've used the data from a mass shooting tracker site to give some perspective on the recent history of these shootings.
Syrian refugees
DATA VAN DE DAG - The Syrian refugee crisis is now hitting Europe. But Syrians have been fleeing the war since 2011. A map shows the most recent figures on where they went to.