Category Archives: Finland

dataist: Interactive: The 100 richest people in Finland

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Jens Finnäs: "Every year in the beginning of [November] the [Finnish] tax records from last year are published. In other words: you get to know who made the most money. Every year the Finnish media outlets do a very conventional presentation of this material. Page after page of lists of top-earners. Rarely does anyone do anything more creative with the data. ... This is my first visualization in Raphael.js. Previously I have been working with D3 and Protovis, but the weak browser support of these two libraries is becoming a growing concern."

Brits’ trips to Saint Nick’s irk Norway

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British tourists’s flying to Lappland to visit Santa for Christmas are causing the traditional annual headache for air traffic controllers in Norway, Der Spiegel reports.

On the last two Saturdays before Christmas alone, 64 flights are scheduled to fly between Britain and northern Finnland. These flights all crowd over southern Norway, prompting the Norwegean civil aviation authority to add two additional air traffic contollers to each shift.

According to the Associated Press, 600,000 people visit Rovaniemi, Finland, each year with about 250 charter flights to the village in December alone.