Juliet Ramos
Why culture needs a data desk
Juliet Ramos on treating anime catalogs, streaming libraries, and franchise economics as public evidence — not just fandom.
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A cross-medium report on how award systems convert attention into legitimacy across film, music, literature, science, and public culture.
July 1, 2026

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Juliet Ramos
Juliet Ramos on treating anime catalogs, streaming libraries, and franchise economics as public evidence — not just fandom.
David Lee
David Lee walks through observed data, derived metrics, editorial indices, and outside literature — the four evidence types behind every report.

· 5 min read
A comparative geo-economics report on why California and Texas are paired in public debate, what they share, and where their economies, exports, risks, and identities diverge.

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The Celtics are basketball's clearest example of inherited expectation: a franchise whose 1960s dominance still shapes every modern season.

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A geo-economics framework for analyzing cities as layered systems of exports, services, culture, scarcity, infrastructure, and historical identity.

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The Dallas Cowboys are the NFL's clearest separation between brand value and postseason conversion: a global sports machine with an old championship engine.

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A cultural economics report framing films, music, games, food, fashion, and media as exports that shape national and city identity.

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The Dodgers are baseball's modern consistency machine: a franchise that turned money, development, and depth into recurring October access.

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A comparative country report on why the U.S., China, and Germany are discussed together, and how their export systems differ by platforms, factories, machinery, dependencies, and replaceability.

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A film-culture report using IMDb-style public title fields, rating logic, and box-office references to explain how movies become famous.

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The Lakers are basketball's glamour machine: a franchise that converts stars, market gravity, and expectation into recurring championship eras.

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A cross-sport report on how league rules, money, roster scale, event scarcity, and cultural reach shape the way teams become meaningful.

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A music-culture report using MusicBrainz-style metadata to explain how artists become famous through catalog depth, format shifts, genre travel, and reinvention.

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A country-level geo-economics report framing exports as identity: what nations sell, what they need, what competitors can replace, and what products carry prestige.

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A comparative city report asking why New York and San Francisco are discussed together, what they share, and where their economic and cultural systems diverge.

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A cultural data report using Pantheon-style biography data to ask who gets remembered, where memory clusters, and how fame travels across language, era, and institution.

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The Patriots are the NFL's great system shock: a franchise whose Brady/Belichick era compressed a century of legacy into two decades.

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A literary culture report using Project Gutenberg metadata logic to map language gravity, era effects, author memory, adaptation power, and remix value.

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A cross-report map of how regions, markets, leagues, and droughts create different sports identities across American cities.

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A city-identity report framing San Francisco through software exports, housing pressure, neighborhood signals, competitors, and open civic questions.

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A cross-league Artometrics report comparing championship mass, conversion, market value, parity, and fan pain across major sports franchises.

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The Yankees are not merely baseball's most decorated franchise.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2018-08-07 release on Airline Safety — 336 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2018-06-26 release on Alcohol Consumption — 193 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2019-10-01 release on All The Pizza — 10,000 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2020-09-29 release on Beyoncé & Taylor Swift Lyrics — 22,616 rows after cleaning and merge.

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A Big Mac costs $8.31 in Switzerland and under $2 in parts of Asia.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2018-06-05 release on Biketown Bikeshare — 100,000 rows after cleaning and merge.

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Since 1958 the Hot 100 has crowned 1,177 number-one songs.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2021-09-14 release on Billboard Top 100 — 100,000 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2019-03-12 release on Board Games — 10,532 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2020-04-28 release on Broadway Musicals — 47,524 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2021-04-27 release on CEO Departures — 9,423 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2018-12-18 release on Cetaceans — 2,194 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2025-12-30 release on Christmas Novels — 35 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2019-12-24 release on Christmas Songs — 387 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2024-10-22 release on CIA World Factbook — 259 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2018-10-16 release on College Major & Income — 173 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2018-05-29 release on Comic Book Characters — 23,272 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2018-07-10 release on Craft Beer USA — 2,410 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2021-09-21 release on Emmy Awards — 29,678 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2018-07-17 release on Exercise USA — 52 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2018-09-04 release on Fast Food Calories — 515 rows after cleaning and merge.

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In 1543 the median human life lasted roughly 30 years.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2019-05-21 release on Global Plastic Waste — 22,204 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2018-10-23 release on Horror Movie Profit — 3,401 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2022-11-01 release on Horror Movies — 32,540 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2018-06-19 release on Hurricanes & Puerto Rico — 153 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2022-09-20 release on Hydro Wastewater Plants — 58,502 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2019-01-22 release on Incarceration Trends — 100,000 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2025-12-23 release on Languages of the World — 8,612 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2022-09-06 release on LEGO Database — 19,798 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2018-12-04 release on Medium Article Metadata — 78,388 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2019-09-17 release on National Park Visits — 21,560 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2025-07-29 release on Netflix Engagement — 27,803 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2021-04-20 release on Netflix Titles — 7,787 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2019-08-20 release on Nuclear Explosions — 2,051 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2018-12-11 release on NYC Restaurant Inspections — 100,000 rows after cleaning and merge.

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Pixar's 27-film canon in data: runtime creep, critic scores, audience grades, and where Cars and Lightyear broke the streak.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2025-06-03 release on Project Gutenberg — 100,000 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2022-11-08 release on Radio Stations — 17,186 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2019-06-04 release on Ramen Ratings — 3,180 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2024-05-07 release on Rolling Stone Album Rankings — 691 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2019-08-13 release on Roman Emperors — 68 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2019-09-24 release on School Diversity — 27,944 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2025-11-18 release on Sherlock Holmes — 65,958 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2019-08-27 release on Simpsons Guest Stars — 1,381 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2021-03-02 release on Super Bowl Ads — 247 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2019-01-08 release on TV Golden Age — 2,266 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2022-11-22 release on UK Museums — 4,191 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2021-03-23 release on UN Votes — 100,000 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2019-02-19 release on US PhDs Awarded — 3,370 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2018-04-02 release on US Tuition Costs — 600 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2018-10-09 release on US Voter Turnout — 936 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2021-03-16 release on Video Games — 83,631 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2019-07-30 release on Video Games Steam Spy — 26,688 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2021-02-09 release on Wealth and Income — 2,916 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2022-11-15 release on Web Page Metrics — 238 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2019-05-28 release on Wine Ratings — 100,000 rows after cleaning and merge.

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This report analyzes the TidyTuesday 2024-02-06 release on World Heritage Sites — 6 rows after cleaning and merge.

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Pokémon is the highest-grossing media franchise in history — more than $150 billion in lifetime revenue across games, cards, merchandise, and film.

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A Data Analysis Of 11,720 Hospital-Condition Pairs Mapping Which States, Conditions, And Ownership Types Pay The.

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Economics comes from the Greek oikonomia — the management of the house.

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The San Francisco Giants have been playing professional baseball since 1883.

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The Golden State Warriors have played 78 seasons of professional basketball.

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Coffee is the world's second-largest traded commodity by value, behind only crude oil.

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H3 is not one channel — it is a network.

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Every empire in history has told the same story about itself: we brought order, we built roads, we made the trains run on time.

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A data analysis of 107 franchises mapping how the most valuable IP in history — from Pokémon to Star Wars — actually makes its money.
