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Entries by Maja Založnik
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Don’t mind the gap

The gender pay gap is not a good measure of gender discrimination. The attention it is being given is disproportionate and misleading. If it leads to companies gaming it, its effects could be extre...


Dataviz for the sake of dataviz

I was recently invited to sit on a very intriguing panel on the future of data visualisation, organized by the Academic Research Support team at Oxford IT Services. The #datavizox event aimed to br...


Visual explorations of household structures across the world

The institute is about to publish the fourth issue of the journal Population Horizons which I manage editorially, but more excitingly, where I also hold the unofficial title of Graphics Editor. One...


Open data or data dump?

“More than 714,000 young people have registered to vote since Theresa May called for a snap election”  begins a recent Independent article, before it goes on to speculate gently ab...


The New Global Gag Rule

Numerous controversial executive orders, memoranda and proclamations signed by US President Trump since his inauguration have left many people aghast and distraught, and the rate at which they are ...


Ageing Nobel Laureates or an Ageing Mankind?

It is Nobel Prize awarding season, and with just one award to go – Literature is to be awarded on Thursday – it is also the season of pundits noticing the laureates have a remarkable te...


Here’s what would have happened if Brexit vote was weighted by age

Britain’s youngest voters will spend about 60 years living with the consequences of Brexit – even though the majority of them voted Remain. Wouldn’t it be fairer if their vote was...


Food for thought

I wanted to share a couple of  `controversial' food related stories that have cropped up recently – although you will probably not find them controversial if you are an economist. Be...


Recalibration 2016

In 1906 Francis Galton visited the West of England Fat Stock and Poultry Exhibition, a country fair in Plymouth, where he witnessed a competition to guess the weight of a fat ox. For a sixpence, th...


Open Data and Open Research

The Oxford University podcasts have just published a couple of short video documentaries in their Openness at Oxford series; one about Open Data and one about Open Research. They feature numerous i...


The plight of Greek pensioners as a dramatic sounding single data point (“Lies, damned lies and not understanding statistics”)

Greek pension reform has been a major stumbling block in the prolonged negotiations between the Greek government and its creditors, and the plight of Greek pensioners is one the most commonly cited...