According to research by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, children’s fashion is riddled with gender stereotypes, from cut to color and from patterns to slogans. He found that popular children’s clothing tended to be more eye-opening for girls, but comfortable and functional for boys. Our weekly NodeXL and human selection of top popular knowledge journalism stories on Twitter also highlight an investigation of the healthcare sector’s big revenues, Bloomberg’s tracking of the post-pandemic recovery through sandwich sales, a deep dive into the Spanish immigration industry, and a look at Florence Nightingale’s revolutionary contribution to graphic storytelling.
German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung tested the scope of gender stereotypes in children’s fashion by analyzing more than 20,000 garments from 3 major retailers: H
– Marie-Louise Timcke (@dantaeterin) July 22, 2022
Healthcare executives in the United States have raised a lot of cash during the pandemic. Health-focused news site STAT reported that some three hundred leading executives jointly took home more than $4500 million in 2021, a sum large enough to cover the annual health insurance of about 580,000 Americans. the annual proxy submissions of nearly three hundred fitness companies, which manually entered an open-source tool developed through The Associated Press. STAT’s research included CEO salaries, bonuses, benefits, and actual earnings earned on awards and inventory options for executives.
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– Erin Mershon (@eemershon) July 18, 2022
For more than a year, Bloomberg has been tracking the return of staff to offices in London, New York, Paris and Hong Kong as the pandemic recedes. Its exclusive unit of measurement: sandwich sales in the neighborhoods of the foreign franchise Pret A Manger. Ltd, commonly known as Pret. Bloomberg’s Pret Index shows that Pret sandwich sales in London’s monetary and theatre districts have not yet fully recovered, but are already close to 90% of pre-pandemic figures. In contrast, transactions in central and central New York did not recover, with sales soaring between 35% and 45% from pre-COVID levels. Read the index method here.
– Adam Welch (@AdamDWelch) July 22, 2022
El Confidencial and fundación PorCausa took a detailed look at the immigration industry in Spain. Journalists analyzed nearly 3,000 immigration-related government contracts from 2014 to April this year, with a total price tag of nearly a billion U. S. dollars. Including graphics, maps and multimedia, their survey primarily points to the “big winners” of the lucrative and opaque industry, as well as the facets of immigration that those corporations handle.
— Ana Álvarez (@AnaVgo) July 18, 2022
Florence Nightingale, a well-known figure in the history of nursing, was also a pioneer in data graphs. he helped convince writers about the British Army’s fitness situations and reform civilian public fitness systems. The piece includes several diagrams of Nightingale’s knowledge.
– Clara Moskowitz (@ClaraMoskowitz) July 22, 2022
Parts of Europe have been suffocating as summer heat waves set in. On July 18, France recorded its daily maximum temperature since August 5, 2003. The French newspaper Le Monde analyzed the historical temperatures recorded through 127 weather stations across the country. The paper visualized the record temperatures at each of the seasons from 1920 to the present.
– Xtophe ?? (??)! (@Xtophe_Bontemps) July 24, 2022
According to a report by The Guardian, global vaccine inequality means the world has failed to deliver on the World Health Organization’s purpose of vaccinating 70% of the world’s population against the coronavirus by mid-2022. to COVID-19, only one in seven has been vaccinated in low-income countries. According to the analysis, the scenario is dire in Africa, where seven African nations are among the 10 countries in the world that have the lowest COVID vaccination rates. .
– Guardian Visuals (@GuardianVisuals) July 21, 2022
Russia’s independent news site IStories analyzed the destruction that took place in the five months following Moscow’s launch of its invasion of Ukraine. Basing their research on various Ukrainian sources of knowledge, the hounds report that the Russian military attacked civilian targets: residential buildings, hospitals, schools and exercise stations – almost 60 times more than the army’s targets. IStories has been branded an “undesirable organization” by the Kremlin and now operates outside the country’s borders.
— Новости без плашки (@antiplashka) 25 July 2022
Egypt is one of the “biggest criminals for journalists” in the world, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The country’s government also has the practice of keeping suspected dissidents in indefinite pre-trial detention by renewing their imprisonment in superficial conditions. hearings exceed the legal limit of the criminal sentence. The New York Times analyzed handwritten court records, maintained by pro bono defense attorneys, which revealed that another 4500 people were trapped in the circular nightmare of pretrial detention between September 2020 and February 2021. Read the survey method here.
– Allison L McManus (@AllisonLMcManus) July 16, 2022
Data visualizations become more complex and dynamic every day. But there is a hole in the systematic preservation of those interactive results and underlying knowledge sets. Professor Bahareh Heravi, a researcher in knowledge journalism and computer science, writes for Datajournalism. com about the dangers of wasting those dynamic visualizations of knowledge and the demanding situations of preserving them. He also presented some suggestions, adding screenshots and stitching them in combination into an animated GIF, or capturing a video stream of the knowledge visualization used.
– DataJournalism. com (@datajournalism) 18 July 2022
Eunice Au is the GIJN Program Manager. Previously, she was a Malaysian correspondent for Singapore’s Straits Times and a reporter for the New Straits Times. He has also written for The Sun, Malaysian Today and Madam Chair.
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