Dolly Seton is a data journalist at The Economist. She compiled data from 86 million dog registrations in nine different countries. Data Analysis is a great way to try and figure out what's going on, she says.
In 2022 global inflation spiked at a rate not seen in decades. A look at the world’s very
first such bout reveals eerie echoes of today’s woes—and lessons for tackling them. Our correspondent meets Indonesia’s Baduy people, for whom
modernity is encroaching on strict religious and ascetic ways. And our data team finds that
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