Welcome to Meteorological Spring ☀️

“March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.”

Hello folks. Pinch and a punch, welcome to March 1 aka the first day of meteorological spring. It was a truly brutal winter, both in terms of weather and incredible personal loss we experienced.

My heart and mind is with one of my good friends who tragically lost his father to Covid-19 last week, and to all those who have lost someone recently. There’s no way I can understand what it’s like, but I do know time is a great healer and things will begin to make sense soon.

Better weather and more vaccines are on their way. So until then, let us keep marching forward. Job Corner and Data Corner are below, have a good start to March everybody! ✊

Job Corner ✍️

New jobs added over the weekend include at the likes of ABC News, the BBC, CNN, ESPN, the Financial Times, the Globe and Mail, ITV News, NBC Sports, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post…

Some of the new 258 jobs we added over the weekend… 👇

Data Corner 🧮

All 22 datasets we referenced in the month of February!

1. Arms Sales: Global arms import and export data, from SIPRI
2. Birth Rates: Swarms of data, from the UN
3. Bushfires: Data on Australia’s 2019-20 bushfire season, from the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment
4. Carnival: Stats on Brazil’s annual carnival, from Statista
5. Covid Origin: Covid-19 origin report, from the World Health Organization
6. Covid Protests: Covid-19 Disorder Tracker, from ACLED
7. Ebola: Historic Ebola case and death data, from the CDC
8. Femicides: Data on violence against women, from the UN
9. International Crime: Court records and reports, from the International Criminal Court
10. Kenyan Artefacts: Kenyan relics held across the globe, The International Inventories Programme
11. Mars Perseverance: More than 5,000 images of the Mars expedition, from NASA
12. Nobel Prize: Historical Nobel Prize laureates
13. Oil Spills: Number of global oil spills since 1970, from ITOPF
14. Poverty: Human Development Index, from the UN
15. Terrorist Attacks: Global Terrorism Database, from the University of Maryland
16. Threatened Species: List of all endangered species, from IUCN
17. UK Arms: UK arms exports data, from the UK government
18. Unpaid Work: Data on paid and unpaid work, from the OECD
19. Vaccinations: Global vaccination data, from Our World In Data
20. Van Gogh: List of all the artist’s paintings, from the Van Gogh Gallery
21. Women’s Rights: Women, Peace, and Security Index, from the Georgetown University
22. Yemen: Plethora of data on Yemen’s civil war, from the Yemen Data Project

Last Time on Data Corner…

🧮 Data Corner — January, 2021

🧮 Data Corner — 2020

Thanks for reading. See you on Wednesday for Inside The Middle East! 🌍