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This is a great TED Talk about how data shows life expectancy vs. wealth over time geographically.

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A storm is coming… October 2016

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Halloween Google Doodles (2018 and 2019 respectively)

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Halloween Google Doodles (2009 to 2017 )

Starting from the top...

Halloween 2009 - The Click or Treat Doodle (In the Doodle archives clicking on this does nothing for me).

Halloween 2010 - A static image showing the Mystery Machine (from the popular cartoon Scooby Doo) in the background.

Halloween 2011 - This is a snapshot of a video of Google staff carving giant pumpkins to spell GOOGLE. Searching for this shows a ‘behind the scenes’ on how they did this.

Halloween 2012 - A snapshot of an interactive Doodle. Clicking on the doors reveals monsters shaped in the traditional Google Doodle fashion. Accompanied by growls and moans of the monsters. Note: I could not hear this very well even with speakers turned up.

Bram Stoker’s 165th Birthday - A still Doodle that speaks for itself.

Halloween 2013 - Another interactive Google Doodle. Click on the witch, then choose items to put in her pot. Combinations of two of the items reveal a small game to play. There are 6 combinations of items, thus six games to play.

Halloween 2014 - A semi-dynamic Doodle that appears to randomly choose one of 6 gifs for every visit of the page. There is the pumpkins as depicted above, a happy scarecrow that waves, a witch stirring a cauldron, a ghost chase, zombies in a graveyard ‘garden’ and a final gif of a werewolf letter ‘O’ scaring the rest of the Google letters.

Halloween 2015 - An interactive flappy bird style game were you control one of four teams of ‘quidditch’ witches to fly through as much candy as possible. Scores appear to be tallied based on the teams other users choose, giving a worldwide tally of candy captured for each team.

Halloween 2016 - A fairly advanced game where the player (who is a black cat) has to rescue their Halloween friends from ghosts by drawing the symbols shown above ghosts heads before they bite you. Waves of ghosts get tougher to beat as more symbols have to be drawn before they reach you to kill them.

Halloween 2017 - A video of a ghost called Jinx who decides what to wear for Halloween.

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Halloween Google Doodles from 1999 to 2008

more to come!...

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The Witches’ Cauldron (Copenhagen, Denmark)

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Winter Landscape with Castle in the Mountains (19th century) by Albert Bredow

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SOURCE: Google Trends

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This is the comparative search volumes of both terms “Halloween” and “Christmas”. Note the seasonal peaks and troughs.

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Some data viz. taken from the UK Government’s Open Data archives (link: https://data.gov.uk/dataset/e97d248c-2b4b-4d0f-890b-ff7c5f5e02bf/terrorism-arrests-analysis-of-charging-and-sentencing-outcomes-by-religion). I found this highly interesting reading. There were some limitations to the data set as; some cases where missing and could not be classified; and there is no current more recent data to add to this at the time of analysis.  

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