Econ history / Historical dem. — NTNU
https://fjbeltrantapia.github.io
Culture and naming practices in the past https://fjbeltrantapia.github.io/allthenames/
Missing girls in historical Europe https://sites.google.com/view/missing-girls-in-history/home
Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia
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Por si os interesa, mi libro sobre "Capital y Trabajo: 50 peliculas esenciales sobre economia" ya esta en acceso abierto para que lo disfruteis, leais y useis (incluye un apendice con ciclos de cine como material docente).
hdl.handle.net/10609/154317
All you ever wanted to know about bread production, prices, markets, and political economy in early modern Spain, now on Early View! "The Bread of Toledo", Joint with David González Agudo at @uv.es. Open access: doi.org/10.1111/ehr....
Summer season is apparently on in Trondheim 😍😍🎾🎾
And here the girls. Percentage sharing the same name between 1600 and the early 2010s. Only the 100 most common.
Santiago Sanchez-Pages
My first tile plot 😊 Ongoing work with Fran Marco-Gracia. The popularity of male names in a small region in North-western Spain between 1600 and today. Continuity and change over more than 4 centuries.
Really pleased to see our global stunting data up on our world in data. We hope it helps people contextualise child stunting in a much longer historical lens.
Thanks to Hannah and Tuna for visualising and explaining the data so well!
The link to the original paper is here:
doi.org/10.1136/bmjg...
Preparing for the next iteration of the MA/PhD course on "Quantitative methods for historians" fjbeltrantapia.github.io/quantitative... at NTNU. It will take place intensely during one week in September (7-11) in case students from other universities want to join us in Trondheim.
Quite timely I created my first tile plots on name prevalence in a small region in North-western Spain over more than 4 centuries. 😊
Regular reminder that there are alternatives to Google Search and Google Chrome.
Some European alternatives are listed here: european-alternatives.eu/alternative-... (where you can also find alternatives for other tech products should you be looking for them)
In June 15-16, the 1st SPEIN Workshop will bring to @kcl-spe.bsky.social economists, economic historians, and political scientists studying the political economy of Spain.
If you work in or are interested in the field and would like to learn more, get in touch!
www.tonirodon.cat/spein-confer...
Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia
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We study the market for common white bread in the city of Toledo through a new 266-year-long series of bread prices, obtained from the cash purchases and wholesale bread-for-wheat contracts of large ...
This week's #TidyTuesday data compares baby names in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and England & Wales 📊
One of the interesting things about this data is that you can often spot trends related to current events 👸
Code: github.com/nrennie/tidy...
#DataViz #ggplot2 #RStats #QuartoPub
✍️ New article: “Childhood stunting fell dramatically over the 20th century”
One in four children in the world today suffers from “stunting”. That’s 150 *million* children under five.
A stunted child is too short for their age due to poor nutrition and frequent infections.
Nicola Rennie
european-alternatives.eu
Google is the biggest search engine in the world, from the USA-based company Alphabet.
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
Our World in Data
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
