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Women in theatre: how the '2:1 problem' breaks down

How well are women represented in theatre? New research by the Guardian in collaboration with Elizabeth Freestone shows a mixed picture. Find the full research results below
Was your street hit during the London Blitz? Find every incident using the Bomb Sight interactive map

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An interactive map shows the locations of every bomb dropped on London during the Blitz, including images and detailed information on each incident
Rolling Stones: a life on the road visualised and mapped

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What does 50 years of touring and performing actually look like? This visualisation, made using CartoDB, traces every Rolling Stones tour. Were you at one of these gigs?
How Many Gigatons of Carbon Dioxide? The Information is Beautiful guide to Doha

Gigatons of CO2. Global temperature rises. Carbon budgets. What does it all mean?
UK wild bird population declines, with specialist species suffering the most

The UK's wild bird population fell by 1.9% in 2011, with total numbers down by 13.7% since 1977. There has been significant variation between species and habitat groups, with specialist species seeing marked declines
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Economics

Autumn statement 2012 in charts

What did George Osborne announce in the Autumn statement? Find out with our key charts
Transparency

The corruption map of the world

Transparency International's transparency index measures each country in the world on corruption. See how they compare
- Get the list
Public spending

Government spending by department, 2011-12: get the data

Government spending by department is under the microscope. Find out how Whitehall spends your money - and download our wallchart for yourself
- An interactive guide
- Named and shamed: the worst government annual reports, 2012
Wages

What do you get paid? The 2012 UK salary survey results

Are you satisfied with your wages? How does your salary compare to a teacher, nurse - or company director?
- Interactive: The wages map of Britain
Competition

How transparent is world aid data? Visualise where the money flows and win $2,000

Competition: Can you visualise the world of aid - and how transparent it is? If you could, you too could win $2,000
- Why does aid need to be transparent? See what happened at our debate

Governments around the globe are opening up their data vaults – allowing you to check out the numbers for yourself.

Search for government data here from countries, cities and states around the world – and we're adding more all the time. Read more about this on the Datablog. Find out how to use our world government data API here

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Government spending

The government has released spending by every department over £25,000. Search the key data using our explorer
Higher Education?

Does Funding Equal Happiness? By Tony Hirst: ouseful.open.ac.uk
Recipe search

Learn about how it works and what kinds of commercial possibilities the case study demonstrates
Live traffic cameras

Watch London's traffic cameras live on your iPad
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A spreadsheet of all our spreadsheets

Want to see all of the data we have reported? Here's all the data we've covered over the last two years
The Guardian rosetta

Looking for ISO country codes? Or hospital IDs? Take a look at our reference guide to IDs, codes and names
Every British prime minister listed since 1721

Full list of every British prime minister, ever, including David Cameron
Interest rates since 1694

Find out just how low rates are, with this spreadsheet of all interest rate changes, ever

Public spending by UK government department 2011-12: an interactive guide

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How does the government spend our money? The Guardian's data team has gathered the key facts about British public spending
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How have your local area's demographics changed since 2001? Find out using this interactive map

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How have the density and age distribution of your local area's population changed over the last 10 years? This pair of interactive maps, by the ONS data visualisation unit, shows how selected demographic measures have changed between the 2001 and 2011 censuses.
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The religious divide in Northern Ireland's schools

Using Freedom of Information requests, The Detail's Kathryn Torney has created a breakdown of the religion of pupils attending every school in Northern Ireland. Here's the data and what she found
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UK's million-selling singles: interactive

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The Official Charts Company has compiled a list of all the UK's million selling singles in celebration of 60 years of the official singles chart. Which artist has sold the most singles and who makes the million-sellers list? Explore the Tableau interactive below to discover singles by decade and see artists ranked by sales
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Learn about data visualisation with the Guardian

29 September Learn how to present data with Guardian Masterclasses. This class is ideal for those who present for a living or work with data and want to make something visually compelling. Find out more and book your place