The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) stores data about movies, including ratings, actors, directors etc.

The hype around DuckDB is growing, lots of people are talking and writing about it.

A static site generator is a tool that generates static HTML pages from templates and content files.

A recent newsletter by the German Open Knowledge Foundation drew attention to the webpage wo-ist-markt.

Anti-refugee attacks in the Federal Republic of Germany, including direct verbal and physical crimes against refugees, refugee shelters and facilities for asylum seekers, have strongly increased since the refugee crisis in Europe in 2015.

Recently, I came across the crowd-sourcing project Archi-Wiki which documents the history of buildings and places of a city, together with background information on the architect, successive transformations and a collection of photos.

This post uses some insights from my master’s thesis where I investigated contextual determinants of inequalities in political participation across European regions, Here I will give a short overview of some descriptive key findings.

This post deals with the evolution of cinemas in Strasbourg.

The following code stems from a project I prepared while studying in Vancouver.

Ever wandered around a city desperately looking for a public toilet?

Names of places in Alsace are sometimes described as unpronounceable for French people.

I tried out the rvest package by scraping a Wikipedia table about communities in the Département “Bas-Rhin” in the region of Alsace in France.

A little Shiny app that visualizes data from INSEE (the national statistics bureau of France) on communities in Alsace.