Data Journalism Project Samples
Global Distribution of Movie Talent
Which countries do movie critics and their chosen movies' directors mostly come from? Look at the interactive map I created using Python programming language as part of my master level professional degree on Data Science at Columbia University.
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Deadly greek roads: the EU jumps to the rescue
In the last few months there's been a huge discussion in Greece about safety in highways due to a horrific car accident caught on video that caused four people's death. But is this really the case?
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Did you feel it? Vibrations travel a lot eastward lately
Why are earthquakes of a magnitude 3.0 and above in the central and eastern US more frequent now than they have ever been?
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The disappearing flood of unattended minors in the EU
Despite risks, unaccompanied minors continue to flood into Europe in hope of one day being able to pave for themselves a stable future and help those they have left behind.
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NBA refs mistakes: Down the stretch, the whistle is not blown
In the heat of the moment and as a close NBA game comes to an end, players have all eyes on them and referees are expected to get it dead right. But in wanting to do so they steadily prefer to let the game be more physical and don’t intervene much.
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When Greek PM doubled back on MoU, his words spoke volumes
In early 2015, Syriza, the greek leftist party until then in opposition, came to power promising to confront the ‘troika’ of Greece’s creditors and terminate austerity under which people were suffering. However, six months of high-drama negotiations -followed by a national referendum- later, Alexis Tsipras, the party’s president and elected Greek PM, signed a third memorandum lumbering on implementing anti-left measures of historic magnitude. But how much of this unprecedented capitulation was reflected in his speeches in parliament?
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China’s soccer invasion of Europe in a shambles?
My data analysis investigates the numbers behind one of the running decade’s most prominent financial developments in the world of soccer and takes a closer look at its repercussions both in China and abroad.
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