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BIG IF TRUE

Probably right, and interesting if so.

Data-science pieces that start from what I live, read, play and scroll through, built from open data by guiding an AI model. Every issue ends with its cards on the table: code, data and the errors we found.

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Every issue has three beats

BIG

The fact. One figure, one claim, stated as plainly as the data allows.

IF

A closer look at what the first figure measures, and what it misses. Sometimes it corrects it; sometimes it adds what the figure could not show.

TRUE

The extension: what IF leaves standing, taken beyond the case it started from.

Issues

#001

Southern Europe has stopped cooling down at night

Tropical nights and hours of relief in ERA5-Land, 2020โ€“25 against 1980โ€“89, weighted by population.

Read the article Leggi in italiano Figures, data and code

BIT #001: the average southern European lost 2.3 cool hours a night, give or take half an hour
#002

T1: the Korean esports team that transforms in October

Elo ratings for every professional League of Legends game since 2011, and the one team they keep getting wrong at the World Championship.

Read the article Short version Leggi in italiano Figures, data and code On Substack

#003

Who is winning F1, Kimi Antonelli or his Mercedes?

Elo ratings for every Formula 1 driver and car since 1950, and how much of a driver's edge is the car.

Read the article Leggi in italiano Dashboard Figures, data and code On Substack

#004

Italy doesn't have a petrol price. It has several

What you pay at the pump depends on where you fill up, and only partly on oil.

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All issues and how each is archived โ†’

Cards on the table

Which model did what. The real errors found and fixed. The peer-reviewed work on the same question, and whether it agrees. Code that collects the data, the data itself where the licence allows, and a DOI to cite.

Nothing here is peer-reviewed. That is why the checking is left to you: check it yourself.