No one is talking about it yet, but this will soon be the most important question in British politics: How can the country’s broken electoral system be fixed? www.economist.com/interactive/...

Our new model captures the lottery of Britain’s electoral system

Similar results, our data analysis shows, can yield strikingly different outcomes

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[03/24] 18h01 (French time, that is)? Time for the third riddle of the data advent calendar! Let's hear it from you then

When the electorate fragments, first past the post electoral system becomes a slot machine. In an election tomorrow, a remarkably wide spread is possible. This week's UK cover story on the coming legitimacy crisis featuring @owenwntr.bsky.social's new model www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Earlier this week we published another quick special project from our stellar team at @economist.com. Amazing work from @fteoldi.bsky.social, @sambeal.bsky.social, @josephc.net and many other editors, researchers and designers. www.economist.com/interactive/...

Tracking American drug-boat strikes off Venezuela’s coast

Are smugglers or Nicolás Maduro’s regime the target?

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What makes Hurricane Melissa so different to other storms? A terrific piece with stellar graphics pulled together by our special-projects team with help from across the paper @ainsliejstone.bsky.social @fteoldi.bsky.social @eljlees.bsky.social @josephc.net www.economist.com/interactive/...

Hurricane Melissa is one of the strongest storms ever recorded

Jamaica and Cuba are in its path

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Tonight we’re learning how to track boats and see the seas using @globalfishingwatch.org!

We have quietly launched Off the Charts, our @economist.com data newsletter, on Substack. You can subscribe to the newsletter for FREE (paid subscribers also receive access to our newsletter archive & two of our data-driven pieces each week) theeconomistoffthecharts.substack.com

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The Economist’s data and visual journalists share the tools, techniques and ideas behind their award-winning stories. Click to read The Economist: Off the Charts, a Substack publication.

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A brand new look at our journalism @economist.com www.economist.com/comingsoon

The Economist Insider launches soon

A new premium video experience from The Economist, coming on October 9th

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Off the Charts, The Economist's weekly data-journalism newsletter, is now on Substack! It's free to subscribe and you'll receive a steady supply of tips, tricks and behind-the-scenes tales from our award-winning data team 🧵 theeconomistoffthecharts.substack.com

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Today's chartle game is almost exactly like 📈

chartle@chartle.cc · 11mo ago

Which country has the highest number of patent applications per million people worldwide? Do you think you can solve it? Have a try at chartle.cc

We are seeking a motivated and dynamic graduate or graphic designer to join our video team as a junior motion-graphics designer. Apply by September 1st

Wanted: a junior motion-graphics designer for our video department

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A great opportunity for anyone who wants to learn the basics of data journalism #ddj

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Registrations are now open for August. Come along and learn about the art of data journalism! 🎨 We're covering all the basic skills you need to find and tell stories with data lu.ma/nr7euafr

To track the Israel-Iran war, @economist.com, I think uniquely, monitors 208 strategic sites in Iran for abnormal thermal activity. It can be hard to know how much maps of confirmed strikes may miss. We find broad overlap, but not perfect. www.economist.com/interactive/...

My cover story this week is on a fascinating global shift: the diminishing preference for baby boys around the world - and the first inklings of a bias towards girls. I'd love for you to read it. www.economist.com/briefing/202...

More and more parents around the world prefer girls to boys

The bias in favour of boys is shrinking in developing countries even as a preference for girls emerges in the rich world

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The noxious practice of aborting girls simply for being girls has become dramatically less common. The preference for having boys is declining. But what comes next may not be simple or trouble-free econ.st/45G6Eny

💌 Our Equal Measures 2030 April newsletter is out including: ✨ Announcing our 2025 Storytelling with Gender Data Fellows ✨ Reflecting on CSW69 and Beijing+30 Give it a read here: tinyurl.com/38m52srk 💌 Subscribe to keep up to date with EM2030: tinyurl.com/5n6j3zd8 #GenderEquality #Data

Striking chart and quite a stat: "Since January 20th [Trump] has churned out 4,149 words a week...If he keeps it up, his total oeuvre as president will surpass Marcel Proust's 1.3m-word “Remembrance of Things Past” in early 2028." www.economist.com/united-state...

Roses are red Violets are blue

Britain has been quietly making significant progress in women's representation across business and politics. Data for all 29 OECD countries in our annual glass-ceiling index 👇 www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

I wrote about the latest Democracy index from EIU. 2024 was a great year for polling-booth manufacturers, but less so for global democracy www.economist.com/interactive/...

Zwei Tage vor der der Wahl haben Friedrich Merz und die Union eine Anfrage gestellt, die man in dieser Form sonst nur von der AfD kannte. In 551 (!) Fragen stellen sie die Gemeinnützigkeit zahlreicher NGOs in Frage, darunter auch des @netzwerkrecherche.org. dserver.bundestag.de/btd/20/150/2...

How are Germans planning to vote? I took a look, with five charts and a bunch of data 🇩🇪📈

Thanks (or no thanks?) to @alexselbyb.bsky.social for mentioning this 'spot the wrong colour' game in the latest @economist.com 'Off the charts' #dataviz newsletter sent by @mariesegger.bsky.social. My Saturday morning productivity? Nonexistent! 😂

Color Find - Test Your Color Perception

Challenge yourself with this addictive color perception game. Find the different colored square, compete on the leaderboard, and see how far you can go!

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My article, just out, on what German business leaders are expecting from the new government--and why they feel with they are standing with their backs to the wall www.economist.com/business/202...

German business is being suffocated by high costs and red tape

Many bosses doubt that the upcoming election will change that

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A lovely walk down the visual memory lane yesterday at @visualisingdata.com’s very entertaining book launch. He highlighted a different standout chart for every year of the last two decades or so📈📊📉🗺️

Did some Hansard crunching for Catherine Nixey's entertaining piece on Parliamentary debate: www.economist.com/britain/2025... "Parliament’s benches are less a place to go to pose questions than to pose for clips on X. This House seems to believe old-fashioned debating is a waste of time."

Diese Visualisierung im SPIEGEL-Parteispenden-Tracker zeigt sehr deutlich, wie Vermögende versuchen, auf den Ausgang der Bundestagswahl Einfluss zu nehmen und die Dimension der aktuellen Großspenden an die AfD.

For the past year, I've been investigating the global rise of online scams - a predatory, multi-billion dollar industry that rivals the size of the illicit drug trade. Scam Inc, a new 8-part podcast from The Economist and hosted by me, is out in February: econ.st/3CoAdxJ

Scam Inc from The Economist: Trailer: Scam Inc

A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It is already more lucrative than the illicit drug trade. And it’s about to get bigger and much more powerf...

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This week we published a special @spiegel.de print issue ahead of the 🇩🇪 national election — including three large visualization pages from our team.

🗳️🇩🇪 We have launched our German election forecast! The hard-right AfD is 2nd in the polls and has been gaining ground on the centre-right CDU/CSU. But none of the other parties want to work with it. Which coalitions will be possible? Follow the runners & riders: www.economist.com/interactive/...

2025 German election polls and prediction model

Track who is ahead in the polls, and explore our forecast model in the run-up to February’s election

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