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We’re celebrating Love Data Week 2019 all week long! This year’s theme is data in everyday life and to that end, we are bringing you some of the most popular articles published in , exploring data topics that help advance our knowledge of the world, from social media data for urban sustainability to the tricks of evolving large brains. Take a read below!

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Transitioning complex social-ecological-technological urban systems to sustainability is a fundamental challenge for governments, scientists, and practitioners in the 21st century. At the same time increasingly ubiquitous big data from social media can be one of the potential solutions.

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This article looks at the evolution of exceptionally large brains in birds and mammals and suggest that breakdown of allometric constraints potentiated that.

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A lot of data on public transportation schedules and routes are freely and publicly available. However, their usage in scientific contexts has remained limited. The article looks at the reasons behind that.

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Antica from the Netherlands Institute of Ecology shares her personal story about how her experience with open data and open science started, and what that has helped her achieve so far.

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Get more insights about researchers’ views and actions in managing and sharing experimental research data over time by reading the 2018 State of Open Data report.

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