Simon Straubinger
@straubinger.bsky.social
Data Analyst, Health and Care Administration, City of Copenhagen. Political science education. I love all things #rstats & #dataviz
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Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/slam
#smbc
(including the best closing line I've ever written)
#smbc
(including the best closing line I've ever written)
June 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/slam
#smbc
(including the best closing line I've ever written)
#smbc
(including the best closing line I've ever written)
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South Korea gender divide update 😲
Young men lean right by 50 points
(74% conservative vs 24% centre-left)
Young women lean left by 22 points
(58% centre-left vs 36% cons)
Young men lean right by 50 points
(74% conservative vs 24% centre-left)
Young women lean left by 22 points
(58% centre-left vs 36% cons)
June 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
South Korea gender divide update 😲
Young men lean right by 50 points
(74% conservative vs 24% centre-left)
Young women lean left by 22 points
(58% centre-left vs 36% cons)
Young men lean right by 50 points
(74% conservative vs 24% centre-left)
Young women lean left by 22 points
(58% centre-left vs 36% cons)
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Economic uncertainty update:
The thing about veering wildly between policy positions, favouring and then discarding a new maverick advisor each week, and using contradictory justifications at every turn, is that even if one particular pivot is in the direction of sanity, chaos is the constant.
The thing about veering wildly between policy positions, favouring and then discarding a new maverick advisor each week, and using contradictory justifications at every turn, is that even if one particular pivot is in the direction of sanity, chaos is the constant.
April 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Economic uncertainty update:
The thing about veering wildly between policy positions, favouring and then discarding a new maverick advisor each week, and using contradictory justifications at every turn, is that even if one particular pivot is in the direction of sanity, chaos is the constant.
The thing about veering wildly between policy positions, favouring and then discarding a new maverick advisor each week, and using contradictory justifications at every turn, is that even if one particular pivot is in the direction of sanity, chaos is the constant.
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New consumer sentiment data just out for April:
Americans’ expectations for how the economy will fare over the next year are now at their worst in 45 years.
Consumer confidence is down 40% since Trump’s inauguration, including a 20% drop among Republicans.
Americans’ expectations for how the economy will fare over the next year are now at their worst in 45 years.
Consumer confidence is down 40% since Trump’s inauguration, including a 20% drop among Republicans.
April 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
New consumer sentiment data just out for April:
Americans’ expectations for how the economy will fare over the next year are now at their worst in 45 years.
Consumer confidence is down 40% since Trump’s inauguration, including a 20% drop among Republicans.
Americans’ expectations for how the economy will fare over the next year are now at their worst in 45 years.
Consumer confidence is down 40% since Trump’s inauguration, including a 20% drop among Republicans.
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NEW 🧵
The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.
Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...
The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.
Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...
April 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
NEW 🧵
The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.
Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...
The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.
Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...
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Our forecast of the Canadian election is live 📈🇨🇦
We give the Liberal Party an 83% chance of winning the most seats on 28th April
www.economist.com/interactive/...
We give the Liberal Party an 83% chance of winning the most seats on 28th April
www.economist.com/interactive/...
April 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Our forecast of the Canadian election is live 📈🇨🇦
We give the Liberal Party an 83% chance of winning the most seats on 28th April
www.economist.com/interactive/...
We give the Liberal Party an 83% chance of winning the most seats on 28th April
www.economist.com/interactive/...
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NEW 🧵
A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:
1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.
These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:
1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.
These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
April 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
NEW 🧵
A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:
1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.
These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:
1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.
These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
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ABC News has now fully taken down the old 538 website, including all interactive projects since 2014. Aside from erasing history this prevents access to publicly released data, including raw polls, averages, model estimates & story dta. Totally unacceptable for a company (allegedly) doing journalism
March 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
ABC News has now fully taken down the old 538 website, including all interactive projects since 2014. Aside from erasing history this prevents access to publicly released data, including raw polls, averages, model estimates & story dta. Totally unacceptable for a company (allegedly) doing journalism
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Just a reminder that all the data FiveThirtyEight collected—polls, election results, and much more—is available for download (for now) on our GitHub page. github.com/fivethirtyei...
March 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Just a reminder that all the data FiveThirtyEight collected—polls, election results, and much more—is available for download (for now) on our GitHub page. github.com/fivethirtyei...
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ATLANTA FED: "The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the first quarter of 2025 is -1.5 percent."
www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc...
www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc...
GDPNow
Provides a
www.atlantafed.org
February 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
ATLANTA FED: "The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the first quarter of 2025 is -1.5 percent."
www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc...
www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc...
DOGE savings www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...
February 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
DOGE savings www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...
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"Societies change their minds faster than people do: Generational replacement is what shifts public opinion"
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
February 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"Societies change their minds faster than people do: Generational replacement is what shifts public opinion"
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
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What if Wikipedia was a place you could visit? That’s the idea behind The Museum of All Things, a free and open-source procedurally-generated museum built on Wikipedia’s vast knowledge base 🖼️
godotengine.org/article/muse...
godotengine.org/article/muse...
Godot Showcase - Museum of All Things
What if Wikipedia was a place you could visit? That’s the idea behind The Museum of All Things, a free and open-source procedurally-generated museum built on Wikipedia’s vast knowledge base.
godotengine.org
February 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
What if Wikipedia was a place you could visit? That’s the idea behind The Museum of All Things, a free and open-source procedurally-generated museum built on Wikipedia’s vast knowledge base 🖼️
godotengine.org/article/muse...
godotengine.org/article/muse...
Clear east-west divide in Germany this election
February 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Clear east-west divide in Germany this election
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NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany:
Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left.
www.ft.com/content/29fd...
Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left.
www.ft.com/content/29fd...
February 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany:
Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left.
www.ft.com/content/29fd...
Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left.
www.ft.com/content/29fd...
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Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
Defense Against Dishonest Charts
This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
flowingdata.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
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The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history. Here's a look at how — and why — it's moved.
The Doomsday Clock has never been closer to metaphorical midnight. What does it mean?
The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history. Here's a look at how — and why — it's moved.
www.npr.org
January 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history. Here's a look at how — and why — it's moved.
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📽️What on earth is happening with US tariff policy?
Could tariffs really, as Donald Trump hinted, replace income tax?
And what does this mean for everyone else?
My five minute primer. An attempt to Make Tariffs Interesting Again 👇
youtu.be/59cf99eJcJM?...
Could tariffs really, as Donald Trump hinted, replace income tax?
And what does this mean for everyone else?
My five minute primer. An attempt to Make Tariffs Interesting Again 👇
youtu.be/59cf99eJcJM?...
Are we on the verge of a global trade war? | Ed Conway analysis
YouTube video by Sky News
youtu.be
January 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
📽️What on earth is happening with US tariff policy?
Could tariffs really, as Donald Trump hinted, replace income tax?
And what does this mean for everyone else?
My five minute primer. An attempt to Make Tariffs Interesting Again 👇
youtu.be/59cf99eJcJM?...
Could tariffs really, as Donald Trump hinted, replace income tax?
And what does this mean for everyone else?
My five minute primer. An attempt to Make Tariffs Interesting Again 👇
youtu.be/59cf99eJcJM?...
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Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart.
medium.com/nightingale/...
medium.com/nightingale/...
Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization
How do you write text that conveys the whole meaning of a visualization? You probably can’t. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try
medium.com
January 18, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart.
medium.com/nightingale/...
medium.com/nightingale/...
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new week, new packages and tools in the LLM + #rstats space
{gander} joins the family and has a very cool logo
luisdva.github.io/rstats/LLMsR/
{gander} joins the family and has a very cool logo
luisdva.github.io/rstats/LLMsR/
January 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
new week, new packages and tools in the LLM + #rstats space
{gander} joins the family and has a very cool logo
luisdva.github.io/rstats/LLMsR/
{gander} joins the family and has a very cool logo
luisdva.github.io/rstats/LLMsR/
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YouGov's MRP for the 2025 German election shows a strong East/West divide, with the AfD leading in all but two constituencies in the former East Germany
yougov.co.uk/internationa...
yougov.co.uk/internationa...
January 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
YouGov's MRP for the 2025 German election shows a strong East/West divide, with the AfD leading in all but two constituencies in the former East Germany
yougov.co.uk/internationa...
yougov.co.uk/internationa...
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Elon Musk's recent interventions in the UK and Germany have gone down poorly in both countries
- 69-73% say Musk trying to influence national politics is unacceptable
- 63% say Musk knows little to nothing about issues in their country
- Musk net favourability: -52/-53
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
- 69-73% say Musk trying to influence national politics is unacceptable
- 63% say Musk knows little to nothing about issues in their country
- Musk net favourability: -52/-53
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
January 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Elon Musk's recent interventions in the UK and Germany have gone down poorly in both countries
- 69-73% say Musk trying to influence national politics is unacceptable
- 63% say Musk knows little to nothing about issues in their country
- Musk net favourability: -52/-53
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
- 69-73% say Musk trying to influence national politics is unacceptable
- 63% say Musk knows little to nothing about issues in their country
- Musk net favourability: -52/-53
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
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"Of all the remarkable people I’ve met, Elon is probably the most likely to remain a world-historical figure—despite his best efforts to become a clown."
It's worth reading Sam Harris on the end of his friendship with Musk. samharris.substack.com/p/the-troubl...
It's worth reading Sam Harris on the end of his friendship with Musk. samharris.substack.com/p/the-troubl...
The Trouble with Elon
I didn’t set out to become an enemy of the world’s richest man, but I seem to have managed it all the same.
samharris.substack.com
January 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"Of all the remarkable people I’ve met, Elon is probably the most likely to remain a world-historical figure—despite his best efforts to become a clown."
It's worth reading Sam Harris on the end of his friendship with Musk. samharris.substack.com/p/the-troubl...
It's worth reading Sam Harris on the end of his friendship with Musk. samharris.substack.com/p/the-troubl...
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Interested in the latest developments & tips on Quarto? Check out all the Quarto talks from posit::conf(2024)!
quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
And consider joining the Posit community for posit::conf(2025).
Learn more and register at posit.co/conf.
#quarto #rstats #python #pydata #datascience
quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
And consider joining the Posit community for posit::conf(2025).
Learn more and register at posit.co/conf.
#quarto #rstats #python #pydata #datascience
posit::conf(2024) Quarto talks – Quarto
Videos of talks from posit::conf(2024) are posted, we’ve compiled a playlist of Quarto talks for you!
quarto.org
January 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Interested in the latest developments & tips on Quarto? Check out all the Quarto talks from posit::conf(2024)!
quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
And consider joining the Posit community for posit::conf(2025).
Learn more and register at posit.co/conf.
#quarto #rstats #python #pydata #datascience
quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
And consider joining the Posit community for posit::conf(2025).
Learn more and register at posit.co/conf.
#quarto #rstats #python #pydata #datascience