The Data desk

Data

Reporting that starts with a spreadsheet and ends with a story.

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Data articles

A city street at night seen from above, lit by traffic and shopfronts
Data7 min

The numbers behind India’s developer boom

India is on course to host the largest developer population on earth before 2029. The headline is the least interesting part of the chart.

Rows of old books receding down a library shelf
Data6 min

How long does a link live?

We resolved 41,000 URLs cited in technology writing between 2010 and 2024. A quarter of them are already gone.