12 April 2015 - The other day I posted an article about using Strava tweets to analyse road cycling patterns. I plan to do some more analysis on this but first I wanted to take another look at the time at which tweets are posted. Below is a chart that shows the number of Strava tweets per hour of the day.

6 April 2015 - A recent report by traffic research institute SWOV analyses accidents reported by cyclists on racing bikes in the Netherlands. Among other things, the data show an early summer dip in accidents: 53 in May, 38 in June and 51 in August. A bit of googling revealed this is a common phenomenon, although the dip appears to occur earlier than elsewhere (cf this analysis of cycling accidents in Montréal).

8 February 2015 - Last autumn, Amsterdam politicians discussed on Twitter whether the relations between coalition and opposition have changed since the March 2014 election, which resulted in a new coalition.

2 January 2015 - There’s certainly some bland stuff around, but many sevillanas are explosive and raw. In fact, sevillanas are the punk of Spanish music. I analysed Discogs and Spotify data to back this up.

12 August 2014 - A while ago, Open Culture wrote about a 1955 US Army manual entitled How to spot a communist. According to the manual, communists have a preference for long sentences and tend to use expressions like: