Category: The Outlier
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Home burglaries have dropped in all the previous hotspots. See what your local station looks like
The latest crime stats show that fewer home burglaries have been reported this year at the 10 police stations that reported the highest number of cases before Covid.
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How – and why – we switched from interactive to static data visualisations
Making the change to static charts with limited options has completely changed the way we think about the visualisations we do. The ’constraints‘ we’ve applied remove a lot of the decision-making usually found in design.
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The Outlier’s grocery basket: September 2022
Spar’s basket was the most expensive option this month and Shoprite’s was the cheapest. The same bag of groceries differed by R48. Find out more in our September 2022 update.
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How would you fare against world marathon record holder Eliud Kipchoge?
Eliud Kipchoge has broken the world marathon record again. But how fast is he really? And how would you compare?
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Sitting on top of a snow-less Kilimanjaro
The mountain’s glaciers have a few more years before they are gone. Scientists say sun radiation, too little snow and rising temperatures all contribute to their disappearance.
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Only 1% of monkeypox cases are in Africa
The disease has been around in Africa since the 1970s, but so far only 12 countries have reported cases during this year’s outbreak
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Schools still don’t meet minimum standards nine years after deadlines to fix them were put in place
The Department of Basic Education now appears to want to remove the deadlines altogether
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The Outlier’s grocery basket: August 2022
We’ve added a new retailer to our grocery basket comparison. Now, we look at the in-store prices of the same basket of goods across five retailers.
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SA medical negligence claims top R536bn in seven years
53% of all legal claims paid out in 2020/21 were in the Eastern Cape.
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Seven charts on women, work and education in South Africa
More girls between the ages of 17 and 19 pass matric than boys, and they do better at maths and science. More young women also graduate with degrees. So why then do women earn on average 20% less than men?