Yesterday I noticed that the autumn colors are already here. It's beautiful, as you can see in the picture above. However, with the crazy weather this year and the temperature going up and down, I barely realized that this season was already here.
Air travel statistics in Europe
Eurostats offers an interesting dataset about air travel in the continent, including the number of passengers per country. As you observe in the previous chart, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Spain had the highest number of air travelers through their airports in 2017.
Presidential Elections vs World Cup in Colombia
I always believed one of the main problems with the presidential elections in Colombia, held every four years, is the timing: They always coincide with the Football World Cup! Football is an extremely popular sport in the country, and when the national squad qualifies for the tournament, the country turns its attention away from everything except this event.
The previous graph generated with Google Trends Search Data relates to this point at least in the online sphere: The Colombian people are more interested in searching information about World Cup topics than about presidential topics.
The first round of this election will take place on the 27th May and the second round on the 17th June (the World Cup starts on the 14th). Just saying ...
Mass shootings in the US
Unfortunately, another day and another mass shooting in the US (In Florida this time). The massshootingtracker.org website compiles all the public data available of those types of incidents in the news, and the numbers are staggering. Just this year 86 people have been killed and 142 wounded on those types of incidents. The charts above show how this affects every single state in that country.
Is it time now to discuss sensible gun control laws, or how many more are needed?
Good country index
According to their website, the good country index attempts to measure what each country on earth contributes to the common good of humanity, and what it takes away, relative to its size. The index takes into account several data points in different areas such as: Science & Technology, Culture, International Peace & Security, World Order, Planet & Climate, Prosperity & Equality, Health & Wellbeing. The concept is quite interesting because we truly live on a single planet, so the policies taken by any single country have effects on the rest of the world. The results for 2017 are:
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