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• Equality in Higher Education report

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/13/equality-in-higher-education-report/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2017 Equality in higher education: statistical report 2017 from the Equality Challenge Unit The website of this organisation also has an excellent Athena Swan database of case studies on...

• LGBT Hate crime under-reported

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/29/lgbt-hate-crime-under-reported/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 29, 2015 88% of UK LGBT people have experience emotional or physical hate crime and only 14% have felt able to report the most recent crimes to the police.

• Bitcoin

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/15/bitcoin/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 15, 2014 What is bitcoin? Find out using this handy Harvard Business school working paper  . Bitcoin.

• Christmas comes earlier every year!

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/17/christmas-comes-earlier-every-year/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2014 The Royal Statistical Society recently published an  essay based on Internet search terms which found that in 2007 people started thinking about Xmas in November however last...

• The Data Journalism Handbook

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/28/the-data-journalism-handbook/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 28, 2014 http://datajournalismhandbook.org/  A free, open-source reference book written after a 48-hour workshop at MozFest 2011 in London. Also available in the library at 070.40285 DAT.

• Death Sentences in 2014

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/15/death-sentence-in-2014/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2015 Amnesty International publishes its latest annual report and statistical data on the death penalty worldwide in 2014 .

• Women in politics 2017 infographic

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/24/women-in-politics-2017-infographic/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2017 Really great A3 size visual mapping created by the IPU which clearly shows on a worldwide map statistics and ranking on women’s political leadership and parliamentary representation.

• WTO Data Portal

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/07/01/wto-data-portal/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 1, 2022 The  new site  allows users to access WTO databases on trade and tariffs. It covers intellectual property and trade in different types of goods. Some require subscription.

• The Counted

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/13/the-counted/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2015 The Counted launched by the Guardian newspaper to provide the public with statistical data about people killed by the police in the USA.

• Rap music

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/15/rap-music/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 15, 2013 Rapsats statistics on rap music A tool to plot the frequency of words appearing in rap lyrics from 1988 through to the present day see more on contributors .