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Escape With Cheap Flights

Find the cheapest flights from a starting point on any given day with greatescape.co. The flight search engine plots the options on a world map very nicely.

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Ireland & UK Language History

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Ryan Starkey at StarkeyComics.com released a fantastic animated gif and blog post about the spread and decline of the different languages across Ireland and the UK from 400AD onwards.

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100 Years of Sci-Fi Visualised

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Data Scientist Eric Berlow has analysed 100 years of Science Fiction output and analysed and categories the data. Theme trends show that exploration has seen a boom in recent years, but aliens are also on a comeback. The data also shows that the topic of AI has been re-introduced in the last 30 years.

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The Dialect Quiz

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The New York Times also published a fun British-Irish Dialect quiz this week. Based on the answers given to questions about phrases, words and their meanings, the quiz plots a heat map of where it thinks you are from.

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Opportunity Rover

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The New York Times have published a nice data visualisation of the 14 year journey taken by NASA's opportunity rover over 28 miles of the surface of Mars.

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World Data Visualisation Prize Winners

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Information Is Beautiful have released the winners of the World Data Visualisation Prize 2019. The winners are categorised into interactive, napkin and static categories, along with a grand prize winner. The results are available on the Information Is Beautiful website.

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Ireland #2 Good Country

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Ireland has been ranked number two on the Good Country index, which collates what a country contributes to global society and what it takes away relative to its size. While we rank highly for International Peace & Security (4th), Prosperity & Equality (6th) and Culture (9th) contributions, our Planet & Climate (27th) and Science & Technology (46th) contributions need work.

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Explain Shell

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Explainshell describes each part of a shell command that you paste into it, quite prettily I might add! :-) HT to EamonnR for posting this.

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Real Time Speed of Light

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Dr. James O'Donoghue uses NASA Imagery to create an animation of the speed of light between Earth and Mars, in real time. By comparison, check out his animation of the speed light between Earth and The Moon also.

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No Hard Border?

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It would appear that some people, particularly in the vicinity of Westminster and Dundela Avenue in Belfast, have forgotten about the 30 years of violence perpetrated at the hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland during the troubles.

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