The Daily Shot: 30-Dec-20
• Business/Personal Finances
• Geopolitics:
• Health
• Environment:
• Politics
• Technology
• Extra Credit:
• Happy New Year!
Business/Personal Finances
1. Using bank branches:
Source: S&P Global Market Intelligence
2. Holiday spending funding sources:
Source: MagnifyMoney Read full article
3. Children are expensive:
Source: MagnifyMoney Read full article
4. Public construction spending:
Source: @WSJ Read full article
5. Asset forfeitures vs. burglaries:
Source: The Washington Post Read full article
6. Flying less:
Source: Barclays Research
Geopolitics:
1. Arab youth’s views of China:
Source: BCA Research
2. Global terrorism-related deaths:
Source: Statista
3. Assassinations of Iran’s nuclear scientists:
Source: Statista
4. None of the countries that surrounded Poland before 1990 exist today.
Source: @amazingmap
5. Countries mentioned in economics papers:
Source: The Economist Read full article
Health
1. Americans’ assessment of mental health:
Source: @GallupNews Read full article
2. How did my country perform on COVID response?
Source: Deutsche Bank Research
3. US maternal mortality rate:
Source: Statista
Environment:
1. Views on carbon removal techniques:
Source: @MorningConsult, @l_m_j_ Read full article
2. Belief in climate change:
Source: Statista
3. Temperatures in Stockholm since 1760:
Source: Riksbank
Politics
1. Demographics of the US Congress vs. general population:
Source: Data Is Beautiful
2. GOP favorites for 2024:
Source: Statista
3. Eleven counties that would win the presidency:
Source: r/DataIsBeautiful
Technology
1. Connected cars:
Source: @RichardStubbe, @TheTerminal, Bloomberg Finance L.P.
2. Cyberattacks:
Source: @IMFNews Read full article
3. Robot density vs. wages:
Source: IMF Read full article
Extra Credit:
1. Writing systems around the world:
Source: Maximilian Dörrbecker (Chumwa), Wikipedia
2. Light pollution maps:
Source: Light pollution map
3. Most commonly used currency unit names:
Source: Merchant Machine Read full article
4. 50% of Canadians live south of the red line:
Source: GEOstata
Happy New Year!
1. Common 2020 search topics:
• On Google:
Source: Statista
• On Investopedia:
Source: Investopedia Read full article
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2. New Year’s celebrations around the world:
Source: Statista
3. New Year’s resolutions:
Source: Statista
As a reminder, the next Daily Shot will be out on Monday, January 4th.