Juan Convers

Population in Europe Experiencing Depression


Eurostat has an interesting dataset showing the percentage of the population experiencing depression in Europe. The map above shows that Hungary, Portugal, and Sweden are the countries with the highest percentage of the population experiencing depressive symptoms.

A breakdown by sex shows that Portugal is the country with the highest percentage of the female population experiencing depression.

Pay Gap in Europe


A couple of days ago, on March 8th, it was International Women's Day. I was chatting with some family members about whether this day should exist at all (they were arguing that every day should be that day). I was checking the pay gap between men and women in European countries, and I think there is still a reason to celebrate this day.

Trump polluting the news headlines


For many years now, Google News has been my main source of information, because the algorithm stacks and orders headlines from multiple news sources quite nicely. Since Trump was inaugurated, I have had the subjective impression that his name is taking over most of the headlines (he is newsworthy, of course, but still). I did a quick n-gram check on the headline anchors, and his name is indeed taking many of the headline spots.

Top UK artists in history


Interesting chart about the best-selling UK music acts in history. Data from Wikipedia.