Quartz Things

The @qz Things Team is @AShendruk and @Clarii_D. We make things to look at with data and code.

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This is the nearest union Starbucks to you.

https://t.co/vTeDJIaFtN

[SABEW @SABEW]

In the data journalism category, small division, the winner is @qz for An analysis of 27,000 Instagram images shows that fashion's BLM reckoning was mostly bluster. Congratulations @AShendruk and @marcbain_! #SABEWBIB

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Sanctions against Russia include a proposal to limit the country’s access to SWIFT, a platform for facilitating money transfers that is integrated into banking systems worldwide. https://t.co/zHYd40RkF5

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2/ If global emissions reach targets set by the Paris Climate Agreement, eight previous host cities might be considered reliable hosts by the 2080s. If the targets are missed, only Sapporo, Japan, would be able to provide fair and safe conditions. https://t.co/7gwqv1cdZM

[Zach Seward @zseward]

Oh wow, nice touch with the share tool on this one...

This is where I fall on @qz's Crypto vs Big Tech grid.

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https://t.co/0fA80WYCTj

[TOoᴼᵒº˙⁰0₀ₒ.·ph @tophtucker]

since this good call by @quartzthings in April 2020 i’ve kept some notes on “charts that look like data errors”

spending on food and drink
https://t.co/gg6qTMLCfy

[Kira Bindrim @KiraBind]

The new CDC quarantine guidance is confusing—if only a @qz bot could explain it to me... https://t.co/HLorzhwYjr

[Amanda Shendruk @AShendruk]

Our team at Quartz has done some quirky (and informative) end-of-year content:

💸 Venmo emoji use in 2021? yes please!
https://t.co/ncAfip7oQP

🗓️ Most-popular Wikipedia pages? Why not?!
https://t.co/jmN0RuKsOI

📗 Library books of the year! Here for it!
https://t.co/p7wvLRV6FV

[Quartz @qz]

📈 Is there a chart you saw this year that perfectly distilled something you've been thinking about? Send us a screenshot or link to the chart (from @qz or elsewhere), along with two sentences about why you like it, to [email protected] by December 17. We might feature it in a story.

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Applying strategies from indigenous systems in an industrialized world brings a very different way of generating and producing food than what consumers have come to expect—Here are some ways that indigenous food systems differ from industrial ones

https://t.co/3a9E8Y7OfY

[Scott Nover @ScottNover]

In recent months, OpenSea grew monstrously. It now handles more than 95% of NFT trading volume. But a new challenger approaches: Coinbase. Read more in @qz: https://t.co/s4AKBAJzZs

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There are millions of refugees in the world. Most of them stay very close to home.

https://t.co/jhKHTMpUMa

[Amanda Shendruk @AShendruk]

One of the coolest things about the @IPCC_CH #ClimateReport is that the authors are so confident about the science — they even tag sentences with their confidence!

So, naturally, we visualized it.

(And we summarized every chapter, too)

https://t.co/l6quX7c1Yw

[Quartz Things @quartzthings]

This is one AA battery. And this is a shipping container full of batteries—about 3.5 million.

How many shipping containers full of batteries do you need to power global bitcoin mining for one year?

@AShendruk and @timmcdonnell explain here: https://t.co/HRfFvK7enb