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Friday 4 October 2013
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Do rappers think money is more important than sex? Which US president is rapped about the most? Researchers have been tracking the genre's vocabulary using data from lyrics that goes back to 1988. See what happens with this interactive chart.
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An Emergency Department sign at Rockhampton hospital in Rockhampton, Queensland Photograph: DAN PELED/AAPIMAGE
Annual report shows little improvement in times overall for elective surgery and possible effect of ageing population
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Thursday 3 October 2013
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A boat full of migrants arrives at the Italian island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean in April 2011. Photograph: Ettore Ferrari/EPA
A boat of North African migrants has sunk off the Italian island of Lampedusa - but crossing the Mediterranean is not the only route where migrants risk their lives
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We've got the numbers on sexuality in the UK but are they reliable? Photograph: David Poller/Corbis
How many people in the UK are gay, lesbian or bisexual? The Office for National Statistics reckons it's 1.5% while the Kinsey report says it's 10%. Who's right?
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When GTA 5 and books go head to head, which wins on sales? Image: Graeme Robertson/Don McPhee/Guardian
Publishers facing sliding sales will be further depressed to learn that one single game, Grand Theft Auto 5, has outsold the lot of them. One quick question: is it true?
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Can you spot a tracking 'counter' in this image? Image: The Guardian
Brick-and-mortar retailers are increasingly implementing in-store analytics to better understand customer behaviour.
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Oxford University researchers have visualised each country's most viewed website in the form of a colonial map
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The pin-protected BasicsCard to enable welfare recipients to buy essentials
Setting aside part of a welfare benefit for staples such as food has existed in the NT since 2007, and the program has affected some positively, some negatively
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BuzzFeed had almost 16m Facebook interactions on content published in August according to NewsWhip. Photograph: Danil Melekhin/Getty Images
A new ranking of the "most social" media publishers on the web puts BuzzFeed and the BBC at the top. See which sites performed best in August for Facebook interactions and sharing on Twitter
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Wednesday 2 October 2013
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Harvard University has climbed two places to join Oxford university in joint second place just below Caltech on the Times Higher Education ranking of the top universities in the world. Photograph: Porter Gifford/Corbis
The California Institute for Technology has retained its place at the top of rankings of the top 100 universities in the world. See how they compare
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British Prime Minister David Cameron addresses delegates at the annual Conservative Party Conference Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images
The Prime Minister has just delivered his land of opportunity speech at the conservative party conference. Where does the rhetoric end and reality begin? We try to find out by looking at which words and phrases were used the most.
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Using OpenStreetMap and data from Transport for London, Matthew Somerville has created this live London bus tracker that allows people to see whether their bus is due to arrive from the comfort of their lounge
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What's happening to the poorest people in the UK? Photograph: Joel Redman for the Guardian
Are the poor better or worse off than they used to be? It's a divisive question for the public and an even clearer fault line for British politicians. We take a look at three sets of numbers to find out
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Tuesday 1 October 2013
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David Cameron touring the Toyota factory in Derby. Photograph: Darren Staples/PA
It's gone up by twelve pence but do you know what the national minimum wage is now? Do you know what it was when it was first introduced? Get all the numbers here
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The Global AgeWatch Index has ranked 91 countries on the quality of life of their citizens aged over 60. This visualisation looks at three other factors to see how they contribute to a country becoming good for the elderly
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A one-day introduction to data visualisation led by Guardian experts including James Ball, Tobias Stuart and Adam Frost. All hosted at the Guardian offices in London.
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